Junior Data Engineer, vu.city
£40k
3D smart city planning platform
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3D smart city planning platform
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£40k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a more resilient future in which to live, work and enjoy.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in building third and first party software pipelines and ETL solutions
- Experience in working across common database implementations and cloud technologies
- Experience of using, managing and maintaining version control solutions
- A good understanding of:
- Integrations with external systems
- Data structures
- Software architecture, design patterns and algorithms
- Agile principles
- Keen interest in applying code best practices and delivering readable code
- An affinity for prioritising complex product requirements and reducing them to manageable tasks
- Be an excellent problem solver and effective communicator, with a positive can-do attitude
- Be self motivated with a passion for continual professional development
- Be personal, adaptable and flexible with the ability to work successfully in a fast-paced changing environment
- Demonstrates both strong teamwork skills and ability to work independently
- Must be available to attend quarterly company meetings held in the office in person
- Be human and ready to have fun
Desirable
- Experience working with game engines such as Unity or Unreal
- Experience working with GIS
- Experience working with 3D modelling software such as Revit, AutoCAD, 3ds Max or Blender
- Experience with AWS data systems such as Lake Formation, RDS, DynamoDB, or ElastiCache
- Experience programming in at least one scripting language
What the job involves
- We're looking for a great candidate to join our Platform team to help deliver data engineering and technical pipeline solutions that support our growing 3D design/GIS product portfolio
- This will include orchestration of complex pipelines that bridge 3D software products, GIS transformation frameworks and our own data lake infrastructure:
- Working within the Platform Team to architect, build and maintain pipeline/data engineering solutions for geospatial and non-spatial datasets
- Integrate and consume data from WFS/WMS services
- Support the deployment and maintenance of Geoserver instances
- Collaborate with analysts, developers, and stakeholders to define data requirements
- Ensure data integrity, quality, and security across all sources
- Liaise with other team members, including within the Platform team and wider Make/Sell teams in order to determine their requirements and identify further opportunities for automation
- Supporting product/project management cycles by helping the product team to prioritise requirements
- Develop novel solutions to match data transformation requirements, following best practices, prioritising maintainability and performance
- Keep software, datasets and systems up to date
- Assist in data and server migrations
- Automation of processes and systems that are not yet properly implemented
- Keeping up-to-date with current and emerging automation technologies and trends
- Manage and optimise PostgreSQL databases for performance and scalability
- Supporting team delivery, including attendance at all relevant team planning sessions, and keeping team members briefed on changes to agreed plans / strategies
- Continually learning and sharing what you’ve learned to improve code quality
- Identifying, defining and deploying tactics, tools and solutions that achieve business objectives
Salary benchmarks
Our take
3D modelling is very commonly used now to analyse and communicate the impact of both existing and new development plans. It can look at zoning regulation, traffic gravity and solar potential of buildings – to name a few. VU.CITY is a city planning tech company creating “digital twins” for some of the world’s largest cities.
The company has already created models for 24 UK cities and has expanded internationally modelling New York and Dublin also. In short, the idea behind VU.CITY is to help real estate developers to make better design and planning decisions. This idea could have immense impact to the efficiency of cities both logistically but also environmentally which is a very appealing factor.
The smart design platform recently closed a round of funding which the company suggest marks the next stage of its growth as it also signs the beginning of a partnership with Ramboll (global engineering and design consultancy). The opportunities for the platform itself along with the collaboration is very exciting and we’re interested to see the large scale impact the company can have on our cities as it scales.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2021
$6.8m
SERIES A
Jan 2019
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $11.4m
Company benefits
- 22 days holiday per year, increasing to 27 through length of service. Initially increased by 2 days after 2 years service and 1 day per year thereafter - based on fulltime prorated for part time
- In addition to the holiday allowance, the business closes between Christmas and New Year
- Life insurance
- EMI share option scheme
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Private health care, after one year of service
- Access to phone lines covering employee support, bereavement support and probate support
- Employee referral fee and more!
- Flexible working with a central London based office
Company HQ
Waterloo, London, UK
Leadership
Jamie Holmes
(CEO)Previously worked as Production and Quality Manager at Coca Cola Enterprises, worked through several roles at Xoomworks Ltd, most recently as Managing Director of Technology.
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