Data Engineer, Railsr
Potential to be rewarded with equity
Banking-as-a-Service platform
Open for applications
Banking-as-a-Service platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Potential to be rewarded with equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To make finance an amazing experience everywhere in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Ability to communicate across a broad range of stakeholders (ranging from end-users to C-suite) to effectively convey technical concepts to a non-technical audience
- Able to challenge the status quo and engage in constructive dialogue to affect change
- Proactive contributor who identifies and delivers opportunities for improvement
- Knowledge of data engineering tooling (S3, Firehose, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, etc.), techniques (distributed computing, ETL, ELT, etc.) and practices (git CI/CD pipelines, IaC terraform deployment, data quality testing, etc.) and demonstrable application of these tools and skills
- Experience within the FinTech sector is nice to have, but not essential
What the job involves
- You will be a key contributor to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the data platform tech stack (currently built using AWS IaC with terraform, Fivetran, dbt, Airflow, Iceberg, Snowflake, and Looker) to ensure suitable cost efficient solutions are in place for data processing and storage
- You will help ensure data quality with our data owners, implement data protection measures, and enforce compliance with regulatory standards to maintain data integrity and security across our data ecosystem
- You will collaborate closely with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient data solutions and data products that drive business impact
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including data subject matter experts, analysts, product managers, and business stakeholders, to understand their data requirements and objectives
- Participate in project scoping and planning sessions to define project goals, milestones, and deliverables
- Conduct data discovery and profiling activities to gain insights into the structure, quality, and complexity of the data sources
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications, data models, and data transformation logic, ensuring alignment with business objectives and data governance policies
- Partner with our data owners to design and develop end-to-end data pipelines to ingest, transform, and load data from various sources into our centralised data warehouse or data lake
- Optimising data processing and storage mechanisms to enhance system performance and scalability, leveraging techniques like distributed computing and parallel processing
- Implement data quality checks, validation rules, and monitoring processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of our data assets
- Enforce data governance policies, metadata standards, and data lineage documentation to maintain data quality and integrity
- Monitor data quality metrics and KPIs, investigate and remediate data quality issues, and track improvements over time
- Collaborate with data stewards, data owners, and subject matter experts to establish data quality requirements and standards for new and existing data sources
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies, tools, and best practices in the data domain
- Experiment with new methodologies, frameworks, and technologies to enhance our data capabilities and drive innovation within the organisation
- Share your knowledge and insights with the team through documentation, internal workshops, presentations, and knowledge-sharing sessions
- Actively contribute to the development of data team best practices, standards, and guidelines, and champion their adoption across the organisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As the digital economy has grown, so too has the market for 'Banking-as-a-Service' - the process of ensuring the overall execution of financial services over the web. As businesses expand online, they have opportunities to be able to build and sell various financial services or add fintech features to their existing products. Railsr (formerly Railsbank) facilitates companies doing this easily, where it would previously have been a huge undertaking.
Essentially, Railsr is making financial services more inclusive. Previously, the complexities of legacy technology, managing global compliance and ancient bank processes have created a slow, complex and costly experience for customers. Now, through Railsr's Open Banking Platform and APIs, financial innovators have the means of creating the financial services, products and experiences their clients want.
In 2022, shortly after becoming Railsr, the company benefitted from the embedded finance boom and raised a large funding round to support its ongoing expansion efforts. Early in 2023, however, the company had to undertake an emergency sale and shift of control - though it seems to have remained positive throughout, citing the sale as a "pivotal moment" that will enable it to "rebuild momentum, drive change and return Railsr to growth."
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
50% female employees
-53% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2023
$24m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2022
$26m
SERIES C
Total funding: $171.2m
Company benefits
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Excellence
- Accountability
- Diversity
- Work/Life Balance
- Trust
- Fun
- Inclusivity
- Friendship
- Noble Cause
- Respect
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Philippe Morel
(CEO, not founder)Was the CEO of SETL for four years. Previously Principal Investment Leader (EMEA) at Boston Consulting Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Railsr
- Here at Railsr we make it a priority to ensure that our company is diverse and inclusive. Not simply because it’s the right thing to do, but because statistics prove that it creates a working environment which is safer, happier and more productive for everyone.
- We’re passionate about promoting gender, physical, ethnic and cultural diversity in our workplace. And we’re committed to helping every team member establish a sense of belonging and connection to our organisation, so that they can be truly their best self at work every day
- We regularly take time to honestly review our entire end-to-end employee experience. From sourcing, hiring and onboarding our staff, through to team-building, performance reviews, succession planning and mentoring, we consider every aspect to make sure we’re continuing to promote inclusivity, whilst measuring the impact of our approach.
- At Railsr you’ll find a diverse group of motivated individuals, with a shared entrepreneurial spirit and a start-up mentality. With 450 new team members from 39 nationalities having joined us in the past two years, we’re proud of our team and of the uniquely welcoming and supportive working environment we’ve created together.
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