Data Engineer, Zeelo
Smart bus platform for organizations
Job no longer available
Smart bus platform for organizations
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower opportunities through sustainable 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. And as the number one shuttle provider across the US, Uk, and Ireland, Zeelo now transports hundreds of thousands of passengers every month.
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. But with recent funding, the company looks ready to accelerate its growth across the US and make an even bigger name for itself.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$23m
SERIES B
Aug 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.8m
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Sam Ryan
(Co-Founder & 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 before co-founding Zeelo in 2016.
Barney Williams
(Co-Founder & CMO)Also co-founded JumpIn and joined Addison Lee, where he worked as Product Manager and then Head of Brand.
Daniel Ruiz Giménez
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously held various engineering roles at Agilent, Telefonica, DMI and Golden Gekko.
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