Data Engineer, Checkatrade
+ Employee Share Programme + Bonus or commission (role dependent)
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
+ Employee Share Programme + Bonus or commission (role dependent)
More information about location
3-4 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- Solid data engineering fundamentals — writing Python and SQL, building pipelines, modelling data, and knowing how to debug when things go wrong in production
- Experience with AWS and modern data stack tools such as S3, Airflow, Trino, Iceberg, or NoSQL systems or the genuine eagerness to learn them quickly in a real production environment
- A real care for data quality, monitoring, and performance optimisation, you want the data downstream to actually be right, not just the pipeline to run green
- The ability to work across teams and communicate clearly, you can translate what an Analyst or Data Scientist needs into something well-engineered, documented, and ready for scale
What the job involves
- As our next Data Engineer, you'll play a key role in helping us build the UK's go-to home improvement marketplace
- You'll be at the heart of Checkatrade's AI era building the trusted, governed data foundations that power smarter customer journeys, better trade matching, and intelligent automation across the business
- This isn't just about moving data from A to B; it's about creating the scalable pipelines, clean datasets, and robust platform capabilities that let AI and machine learning work safely and effectively in production
- Building and optimising scalable ETL and ELT pipelines on AWS integrating data from internal and external systems and turning it into clean, reusable datasets ready for analytics, machine learning, and AI-powered product experiences
- Developing data models and feature-ready datasets that support both human decision-making and machine intelligence, including work that feeds directly into customer-facing AI services
- Defining and maintaining data SLAs, quality checks, and monitoring so our platform stays reliable, performant, and trustworthy and so the teams depending on it can crack on with confidence
- Collaborating closely with Data Scientists, Analysts, Product teams, and Software Engineers to understand what high-quality data looks like for each use case and deliver it in a way that's governed, lineage-tracked, and easy to work with
- Contributing to platform observability, orchestration reliability, and access patterns that make AI safe in production clear lineage, robust pipelines, and repeatable processes from source to serving
- Helping shape engineering standards and best practices across the data team from data modelling and transformation to performance optimisation and troubleshooting so the whole platform keeps getting better
Application process
- Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
- Technical interview with the VP Data
- Third stage interview with the Data team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Hamza Anjarwalla, Labs Launcher Intrapreneur
Insights
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Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Customer-Obsessed: We listen deeply, solve meaningfully, and earn trust.
- AI Powered: We embrace smart tools to move faster, think bigger, and stay ahead.
- All In: We commit fully, collaborate boldly, take ownership and show resilience.
Company HQ
Moorgate, London, UK
Articles
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Alex Inett (Head of Talent)
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 24% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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