Data Engineer, Zeelo
Smart bus platform for commuting and school runs
Open for applications
Smart bus platform for commuting and school runs
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
Zeelo is the shared transportation service, on a mission to give everyone access to shared, personalised transportation.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field. Advanced degrees are a plus
- Min 3+ years data engineering experience in a commercial environment
- Proficiency in SQL
- Experience building SQL-based transformation flows in dbt or similar tools
- Good understanding of cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure
- Experience configuring orchestration of SQL and Python via Airflow or similar tools
- Experience working with data pipelines, defining problems, crafting and launching solutions, and practicing continuous improvement. Experience with process improvement frameworks and/or project management frameworks is a plus
- Experience maintaining a data warehouse including adding features to improve utility and refactoring to reduce costs
- Knowledge of data modeling best practices
- Experience with REST APIs
- Experience building unit tests or working with testing frameworks
- Experience with data governance and security
- A passion for sustainability, technology, and improving mobility
- Experience developing in Python (optional)
- Experience with transportation systems (optional)
What the job involves
- As a Data Engineer, you will lay the groundwork for extracting value from data by developing and maintaining powerful and efficient data infrastructure
- In addition, you will help Zeelo’s Data Team become the center of excellence on data and responsible for educating other teams, establishing best practices, and facilitating knowledge sharing on data-related matters across the company
- Zeelo and its clients have many data analytics needs all supported by Zeelo’s data team
- You will support data analysts by engineering ETL pipelines to deliver useful, clean, clear, and timely data ready for analytics use
- Zeelo’s data maturity is growing, and you will help incorporate streaming and AI tools into the business effectively
- You will also maintain Zeelo’s serverless data architecture and improve its functionality and efficiency
- Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipelines
- Manage Zeelo’s serverless centralized data architecture (Fivetran, BigQuery, dbt, and other tools) that supports analytical functions across the business
- Design, build, and maintain ETL, ELT and other data pipelines for purposes to support analytics use cases
- Identify improvements in how Zeelo collects, manages and leverages internal and external data sources
- Identify and deliver improvements to scalability and cost
- Optimize queries and pipelines for cost and performance
- Develop data infrastructure to power accurate and efficient analytics
- Be a champion of data and analytics within the company, educating team members and supporting data use throughout the business
- Work with transportation data including location data, scheduling data, ridership data, and financial data
- Write clear documentation on the mechanics of the data architecture
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zeelo provides a personalised shared mobility service for underserved areas using data analytics. The AI-powered algorithm allows the company to design routes that meet the needs of customers, so they can make the most of their travelling time.
The Zeelo platform integrates with an executive vehicle fleet of over 20,000 high quality coaches across the UK in order to serve demand. The company now carries hundred of thousands of customers every month with a focus on commuting services for private companies and large events.
With the shifting attitudes towards sustainability, Zeelo now provides services that use less energy and are more sustainable, which will appeal to the environmentally conscious. The challenge will be growing its niche, with stiff competition in everyday ride sharing from Uber and others. Volatile markets have been a source of tension too for Zeelo, which split from its previous buyers Swvl in 2022. However, this deal signified a positive for Zeelo, if not for Swvl's plans to penetrate new markets in Europe. Zeelo, it seems, has outgrown its buyers and enjoyed a Series A round in 2023, indicating that it can now stand on its own two feet.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$12m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.8m
Company benefits
- Team social events every month
- Great office spaces in London, Barcelona, USA and South Africa
- Ongoing training and development
- Hybrid ways of working
- Company-wide annual retreats
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
Leadership
Sam Ryan
(CEO)Previously co-founded Jumpin, a taxi sharing company for students. Jumpin was acquired by Addison Lee, where Sam worked as Senior Product Manager and then Head of Product for 2 years
Barney Williams
(CMO)Also co-founded JumpIn and joined Addison Lee, where he worked as Product Manager and then Head of Brand
Daniel Ruiz Giménez
(CTO)Held various engineering roles at Agilent, Telefonica, DMI and Golden Gekko
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