Data Platform Engineer, YouLend

£60-90k

+ Stock Options & 10% annual bonus

SQL

AWS

Python

Airflow

Terraform

Azure

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Datadog

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

London

Embedded merchant financing

Open for applications

Embedded merchant financing

201-500 employees

FintechB2BEnterprisePaymentsInvestingFinancial ServiceseCommerce

Open for applications

£60-90k

+ Stock Options & 10% annual bonus

SQL

AWS

Python

Airflow

Terraform

Azure

Redshift

Snowflake

BigQuery

dbt

Datadog

Pulumi

Mid and Senior level

London

201-500 employees

FintechB2BEnterprisePaymentsInvestingFinancial ServiceseCommerce

Company mission

To enable future financial services to embed their operations within customer-oriented product suites.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We’re looking for a Data Platform Engineer to join our growing Data Engineering & Platform team
Proven experience working with cloud-based data platforms (Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, etc.)
Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation and analytics
Experience with CI/CD, preferably in dbt and/or data platforms
Hands-on with IaC tools like Pulumi, Terraform, or CloudFormation
Good understanding of orchestration tools like Airflow
Strong communicator, with experience working cross-functionally

Desirable

Cloud: AWS (S3, Lambda, MWAA), Azure DevOps
Platform: Snowflake, dbt Cloud, Fivetran
Orchestration: Airflow (MWAA), dbt jobs
Languages: Python, SQL
IaC: Pulumi, Terraform
Monitoring: DataDog

What the job involves

This role sits at the intersection of infrastructure, DevOps, and modern data tooling — with a focus on enabling fast, secure, and scalable analytics. To help us build and scale a best-in-class data platform to support everything from dashboards and experimentation to ML and compliance
Build and manage infrastructure for our data platform (AWS, Snowflake, dbt, Airflow)
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for dbt and other data workflows
Automate data platform operations with Python and infrastructure-as-code tools (Pulumi/Terraform)
Collaborate with analytics, ML, product, and engineering teams to scale data solutions
Ensure data quality, lineage, and governance through testing and monitoring
Work with cost observability tools to ensure efficient platform usage

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Securing funding can be complicated, arduous and often inaccessible to many companies. YouLend solves this problem by giving eCommerce platforms and tech companies better access to fast and flexible funding.

YouLend has benefited from the boom in the financial services industry, but this also means the company has had to compete with a number of other embedded finance startups, such as Weavr. Despite this, YouLend's focus on online merchants has allowed it to remain competitive in its offering. What's more, the company's revenue-based repayments system differentiates its solution from more established loan options.

YouLend's flexibility and the speed with which merchants can obtain funding has allowed it to gain a foothold in the growing embedded finance market. However, it will need to focus on growing its customer base even further if it wants to scale in this competitive space.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

39% female employees

101% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Trustpilot (4.8)

Company

Company benefits

Stock Options
Private Medical insurance via Vitality
EAP with Health Assured
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
Free Gym in office building in Holborn
Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
Monthly in office Masseuse
Team and Company Socials
Football Power League / Squash Club

Company HQ

Holborn, London, UK

Articles

CTO Talk: Q&A with Mark Ufland from YouLend

Mikkel Velin, Co-CEO at Embedded Lending Provider YouLend, Comments on Challenges Facing UK SMEs

EXCLUSIVE: “One For All” – Anders la Cour, Banking Circle Group and Mikkel Velin, YouLend in ‘Discover Money20/20’

Leadership

Mikkel Sølvsten Velin

(Co-CEO)

Started out as a Junior Associate at Bech-Bruun, and was an External Lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. Was a Partner at Rogge Global Partners (now Allianz Global Investors).

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at YouLend

Joanne Savage (Talent Acquisition Manager)

At YouLend we’re providing a technology first approach to finance. Our product helps smaller businesses that are the backbone of the economy, and our teams are at the core of delivering our product. We strive to create an equitable culture and we believe our teams are strongest when they are diverse and inclusive.

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