Zego is a commercial motor insurance provider that powers opportunities for businesses, from fleets of just two vehicles to global enterprises, and for individual drivers and riders. Its mission is to provide businesses and people with insurance they control, saving them both time and money.

The problem that exists is that in an ever-changing world, traditional insurance holds businesses back. Zego, on the other hand, helps businesses to unlock their full potential by putting them in control. Using smart technology and sophisticated data sources, Zego gives businesses the power to monitor and improve their driving performance over time, enabling them to save money by retaining a great price for their cover. It also helps businesses save time, making the administrative side of things easy and the claims process effortless.

Since its inception in 2016, Zego has grown to support businesses in the UK and across Europe and has forged partnerships with businesses such as BP, Amazon and Uber. Zego has also raised $280 million in funding and was the first UK insurtech to be valued at over $1 billion.

Role overview

We are looking for a Software Engineer with data processing experience to help us build a data platform with focus on stream processing to enable tiered data architecture.

At Zego the Data Engineering team is integral to our data platform, working closely with Software Engineers, Data Scientists and Data Analysts along with other areas of the business. We use a variety of internal and external tooling to maintain our data repositories. We are looking for people who have worked with streaming architecture and built interactive APIs over data streams, have a background in Scala, good software engineering and data infrastructure principles, spent time working with complex and fast growing datasets and are able to communicate well.

Our stack currently involves but is not limited to Airflow, Data Build Tool (DBT), a multitude of AWS services, Stitch and Fivetran. With change in direction, as a Senior Software Engineer and new addition to the team, you will have the opportunity to rebuild the data platform with a view to treat data as a first class entity. Participate in promoting emerging technologies where they can add value to the business and promote better ways of working.

It is an exciting time to join, and you’ll partner with world class engineers, analysts and product managers to help make Zego the best loved insurtech in the world.

About the role:

Over the next 12 months you will:

Support our data scientists in the development and implementation of our ML models and experiments.
Help evolve the architecture of our data ecosystem to support our long term vision by continuously iterating on our data infrastructure.
Work with the data team and the rest of engineering to develop and implement a clear data strategy.
Collaborate with product managers and across teams to bring new products and features to the market.
Own data as a product, building a data platform focusing on data structure, quality, usage and efficiency.
Build tailored data replication pipelines as our backend application is broken into microservices.
Assist in developing and maintaining our ETL and ELT pipelines.

About you:

We are looking for somebody with a strong working knowledge of building data pipelines and the underlying infrastructure. You should have participated in the design of tiered data architectures, data lakes and followed best practices during implementation. You have worked with Data Analysts, Data Scientists and Software Engineers.

Practical knowledge of the following:

Scala
Akka (streams, clustering)
Having worked with a wide variety of AWS services
Experience in using infrastructure as code tools (e.g. Terraform)
Kubernetes (EKS)
Docker
Otherwise an interest in learning these, with the support of the team, is essential. We're looking for people with a commitment to building, nurturing, and iterating on an ever-evolving data ecosystem.

Other beneficial skills include:

Python
Implementation / Contribution to building a Data Lake or Data Mesh
Data Warehousing (Redshift / Snowflake)
SQL (We use DBT for modelling data in the warehouse)

What it's like to work @ Zego

Zego has a truly international and inclusive team, unified by great ideas and collaborative thoughtfulness. Our people are the most important part of our story and everyone plays an essential role in our journey. We look for people who have expertise, enthusiasm and who are motivated by change. There’s plenty of room to learn and grow, as part of our ongoing training programmes or directly from other experts. You’ll work alongside a talented group of people who respect each other's differences and seek to understand fresh perspectives.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.

Send your resume to zego.data@scalajobs.com

Senior Data Engineer

Zego