Data Platform Engineer, Lendable
2-3 days a week in office
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
Be an early applicant
Profitable Fintech Unicorn - Lending Platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper and friendlier.
Role
Who you are
- Solid programming ability (Python or similar)
- Strong experience with Snowflake (or similar warehouses)
- Good understanding of software engineering patterns and architectures
- Experience building data-intensive systems
- Cloud experience (AWS preferred)
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform ideally)
- CI/CD best practices
- Familiarity with modern data architectures (Lambda/Kappa)
- A self-starter who takes ownership and drives work forward
- Strong problem solver who focuses on understanding before building
- Good judgement on build vs buy decisions
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping direction
- Clear communicator across technical and non-technical audiences
- Able to manage multiple streams of work without losing momentum
- Pragmatic, balancing speed with scalability and reliability
- Actively looks to improve ways of working, including leveraging AI tooling
What the job involves
- As a Data Platform Engineer, you'll work alongside senior team members to tackle complex challenges, while taking ownership of your own areas of the problem, in a fast-paced environment where no two days look the same. The role is fundamentally about problem solving: understanding business challenges, breaking them down, and delivering pragmatic, scalable solutions
- You’ll work closely with product, analytics, and engineering teams, operating with a high degree of autonomy. That means proactively gathering context, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring work lands effectively
- Data Platform sits at the centre of the business, with a real opportunity to shape how teams interact with data. The focus is on enabling fast, iterative analytics, moving from idea to insight quickly, while maintaining strong foundations around reliability, cost, and security
- You’ll work across a broad set of technologies as we evolve the platform. Experience is helpful, but not essential:
- Languages: Python, SQL, Terragrunt, JavaScript
- Cloud: AWS (primary), some GCP
- Warehouse & Storage: Snowflake, S3/Parquet
- Data & ETL: dbt, Fivetran
- Platform & Infra: Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Argo, GitHub Actions, HashiCorp Vault
- Observability: Datadog, Grafana
- Dashboarding: Preset
- Other: Claude
Application process
- Initial call with Talent team
- Hiring manager call
- Technical interview
- Final interview with VP of Platform
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lendable competes with banks, other lenders, and consumer finance companies to make finance and credit easier to access for all consumers. Streamlining the loan application process, the company cuts personalised rates and fund transfers from days to minutes.
Lendable believes it can win in this crowded field due to its market-best customer service and strong financials. Part of its success is due to its funding coming from institutional investors. Lendable originates and services its loans on behalf of institutional investors, but doesn't hold them on its own balance sheet.
Growing insolvencies will worry all lending platforms, but Lendable looks well-placed to weather any credit storm given its substantial debt financing. With fresh funding, this profitable fintech unicorn is poised to make credit access easier for consumers. And with the launch of two new products in the US, Lendable is certainly in a good position for more growth.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$277.8m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2017
$6.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $287.7m
Company benefits
- 💸 Best-in-class compensation, including equity
- 🏥 Comprehensive private health insurance (including dental, optometry and general wellbeing)
- 🎊 Multiple opportunities to socialise with your team and the wider company
- 💻 Equipment provided for you to do your best work!
- 🏠 You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas (hybrid)
- 🍲 Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
- 🚗 EV car scheme (Octopus)
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme
- 🧮 Pension
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave - excluding bank holidays
- 🏋️♀️ 50% off gym memberships at Virgin Active and Nuffield (via Vitality health insurance)
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Martin Kissinger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Economics as an undergraduate at LSE before doing an MPhil at Oxford University. Worked as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Rocket in Berlin.
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