Data Team Lead, Chip
£80-90k
+ Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus of up to 10% (Cash)
Investing and savings app
Be an early applicant
Investing and savings app
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£80-90k
+ Discretionary Performance-Related Annual Bonus of up to 10% (Cash)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build wealth for our generation.
Role
Who you are
- Previous experience leading a Data Engineering team (at least 1 year of experience)
- Production experience working with Databricks
- Previous experience working with a Cloud solution (preferably AWS)
- Senior-level experience writing efficient and scalable Python code
- Senior-level experience working with SQL and Spark SQL
- Senior-level experience with PySpark
- Previous experience working with BI tools
What the job involves
- We are looking for a talented and dedicated Data Team Lead to join our growing Data Engineering team
- You will be leading a very talented team, playing a key role in setting the team's future strategy, and supporting the ever-growing data needs of the business. You will report directly to the VP of Engineering
- Manage the team of data engineers, including hiring, mentoring, and performance evaluations
- Set clear and achievable yearly goals and OKRs for the team
- Plan, execute, and track data engineering projects
- Define project scopes, timelines, and resource requirements
- Ensure that data engineering projects align with the organisation’s strategic goals - own the team roadmap and ensure delivery is on time
- Manage stakeholders' expectations and communicate any changes to the delivery dates
- Own schema change reviews. Ensuring that each schema change runs through the Data Engineering team and follows the best practices
- Establish guidelines and processes for Schema Evolution. Defining how and when schema changes are made, tested, and deployed
- Increase data ingestion pipelines' efficiency in terms of speed and cost
- Establish data governance policies and metadata management to provide the business with clear definitions and documentation of available data
- Support performance optimisation for queries to ensure fast and efficient access to data
- Support business in building and maintaining dashboards, reports, and data visualisations by providing clean and well-structured data
- Ensure that the business has the necessary access to data sources, databases, and data lakes while maintaining data security and privacy standards
- Collaborate with other teams to troubleshoot and resolve data-related issues or discrepancies
- Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
- Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM (Start your weekend early!)
Application process
- Video screen with someone from our Talent team
- Video interview with the hiring manager
- Final interview with VP of Engineering
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Chips offers a free app designed to make saving as easy as spending. Utilising an AI-driven system, the app calculates how much users could save, provides an option to decline, and automatically transfers the selected amount to the user's Chip account, streamlining the saving process.
To date, Chup's users have collectively saved over £800M, showcasing the product's popularity. The enthusiasm for Chip is evident, having raised a total of £43.5M with over 27.5k shareholders.
The company has bolstered its team with strong hires from notable organisations such as Purplebricks, Deposit Solutions, Barclays, Funding Circle, and Monzo, positioning Chip for significant growth. However, the challenge lies in remaining relevant amid a competitive landscape of savings and investment accounts. To address this, Chip continuously innovates its investment product to help users effectively build wealth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 12 rounds)
Sep 2025
$23m
LATE VC
Dec 2023
$6.9m
LATE VC
Total funding: $108.5m
Company benefits
- Discretionary share option bonus
- Workplace pension scheme
- Private medical insurance (medical history disregarded)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Season ticket loan
- Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
- We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity
- Flexible working arrangements
- Unlimited holiday (policy not to count) ✈️
- Annual £1500 Personal Learning Allowance
- £30 per month Chip Fitness Benefit to suit your Mental/Physical Wellbeing
- Company laptop
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Simon Rabin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Roamer. Prior to that, they were a Director at Txt2buy and a Marketing Manager at Unibutler.
Alex Latham
(Co-Founder & CMO)Previously worked in Marketing at Maxim and as Head of Growth at Pineapple Punk.
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