Data/Backend engineer, Motive Partners
Data science
£55-70k
Private investment firm
Job no longer available
Private investment firm
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
£55-70k
101-200 employees
Company mission
To invest in tech-enabled financial and business services companies.
Role
Who you are
- Degree educated in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience
- Previous commercial experience in a data-driven role
- Ability to write clean, maintainable, and robust code in Python, Scala, Java, NodeJS/Javascript or similar languages
- Ability to write SQL queries
- Familiarity with the main cloud computing providers. We use AWS but knowledge of GCP/Azure would be advantageous
- Confirmed experience building data pipelines in production and ability to work across structured, semi-structured and unstructured data
- Experience preparing data for analytics and following a data science workflow
- Commercial client-facing or senior stakeholder management experience
- You will work within our engineering team, splitting your time between in-house projects and client work. You will be responsible for building our data and machine learning pipelines
- Additionally your role will involve liaising with front end and back end engineering teams within Jigsaw to implement your data pipelines and ensure that they are used effectively
- You are a highly collaborative individual and enjoy solving problems that focus on adding busi- ness value
- You have a sense of ownership and enjoy hands-on technical work. Our values resonate with yours
What the job involves
- Most of our data pipes are still being worked on, so you will help to define the tech stack. We are currently using Snowflake as our data warehouse, hosted on AWS. Most of our data work is carried out in SQL and Python, with a bit of PySpark
- Our backend development teams generally use NodeJS with Postgres as our preferred database
- Partner with our clients, from data owners and users to C-level executives, to understand their needs and build impactful analytics solutions
- Design and build data pipelines to support data science projects following software engineering best practices
- Use state of the art technologies to acquire, ingest and transform big datasets
- Map data fields to hypothesis, curate, wrangle and prepare data to be used in advanced analytics models
- Create and manage data environments in the cloud or on premise
- Ensure information security standards are maintained at all time
- Contribute to cross-functional problem-solving sessions with your team and deliver presentations to colleagues and clients
- Be flexible to travel to our clients' offices to deliver presentations, gather information or share knowledge
- Have the opportunity to contribute to R&D and internal asset development projects
Application process
- Competitive salary
- Performance based share options
- Beneficial private health insurance
- Annual company offsite
- Virgin active gym membership or access to a benefits portal
- Company pension
- Maternity/ paternity leave (includes an extra four weeks of paid leave)
- Bike to work scheme
- Extensive career progression framework
- Catered weekly office breakfast and lunches
- Fruit, snacks and beverages in the pantry
- Training budget
- Your application
- We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The financial services industry is going through a major technological shift. Banks, insureres, and asset managers are increasingly erlying on software, data, and AI to modernize legacy systems, improve efficiency, and deliver better digital experiences for customers. This transformation has helped fuel the rapid growth of financial technology, or fintech, creating a large and expanding market for investors looking to back the companies building the infrastructure behind modern finance,
Motive Partners is a private investment firm focused entirely on this opportunity. Founded in 2016, the firm invests in financial technology and tech-enabled business services companies across North America and Europe, from early-stage startups through to large growth and buyout deals. Its investment span areas such as banking and payments, capital markets, insurance, data and analytics, and wealth management. What makes Motive really stand out is its "Investor, Operator, Innovator" approach, meaning it doesn't just provide capital, but also works closely with portfolio companies to help improve operations, technology and strategy.
Since launching, the firm has grown into one of the more prominent specialist investors in the fintech space. Motive has raised billions of dollars in capital and built a broad portfolio of companies across the financial technology ecosystem. AS financial institutions continue to modernize and new technologies such as AI reshape the industry, Motive is set to benefit from the long-term digitisation of finance and the increasing demand for specialized fintech investors.
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
World Trade Center, New York, NY
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