Senior Data Engineer
Senior Data Engineer
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About Birdie
Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its allinone solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most daytoday operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.
Birdie was founded in 2017 a BCorp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina Omers and Index Ventures fuelling our mission to transform care.
Recognised for its innovation and impact we have received numerous accolades including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloittes EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nations prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastestgrowing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.
Your mission at Birdie
We strongly believe that data holds the key to unlock innovation in social care. It is the foundation of how we learn as a company as well as how we enable our customers to improve their services. Our applications and services generate a wealth of rich data it is essential that were able to process analyse & deliver as much of it as possible to improve the lives of older adults.
You will help maintain and build out our nextgeneration data platform enabling Birdie services to exchange data in realtime allowing product squads to quickly develop features building on information captured by other services. Your efforts will provide a variety of roles the ability to analyse and improve how users interact with Birdie products as well as unlocking optimisations to our existing data mesh.
Youll be working with our data engineering team and closely with the infrastructure and product squads to make sure that the right data is available at the right time to solve real customer problems.
How you will contribute
Your objectives when joining will be to:
Maintain our data architecture using the right technologies to solve todays problems as well as the problems Birdie will face in future:
Birdies data footprint doubles every quarter so we need to use scalable technologies to ensure data remains readily accessible for our customers as well as Birdie employees.
Our product architecture is becoming increasingly decentralised its crucial that product services are able to reliably share datasets amongst each other in real time and with our analytics service
Build data infrastructure tools & documentation working with squads to:
Reduce time taken to source process model and publish datasets.
Improve the accuracy reliability & reusability of datasets.
Enabling our partners to make data driven decisions by:
Maintaining our current BI tooling
Investigating new approaches to drive adoption and impact
Enabling Birdie colleagues to make data driven decisions by:
Publishing key data points in the tools they use everyday
Collating data into our customer data platform to enable valuable insights
Wed love to hear from you if you have:
Experience
At least 5 years experience working in a data engineering role supporting customer facing processes and infrastructure.
Passionate about enabling others with tools and documentation careful not to become a single point of failure.
Technical leader highly curious about new technology with clear ability to rapidly learn and understand pros and cons of new tools.
Great communicator capable of explaining technical problems & solutions in clear concise terms understandable to nontechnical audiences.
Quality focused evangelises the importance of data quality coaches teams to use best practices improving data reliability and accuracy.
Not afraid to challenge will always speak up on behalf of the right solution even if its against group consensus.
Outcome focused prioritises delivering value above having the perfect solution.
Cares deeply about data privacy and security.
Heres the Data stack in place today:
Extraction/Load: FiveTran Meltano
Storage: AWS S3 / AWS RDS / Snowflake
Data streaming: Kafka Connect (via Strimzi)
Transformation: DBT
Product Analytics & event collection: Amplitude & Segment
Commercial Tooling: Hubspot Planhat Intercom
Company & Customer Analytics: Looker
What are the benefits
People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (BCorp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our teams growth satisfaction and ability to thrive:
Compensation
Our salary packages are competitive the role is 83k 90k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.
Location
This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular inperson events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.
Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.
L&D budget
Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. Youll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books courses trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.
Work From Home budget
Making your workspace comfortable is important to us youll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.
Paid time off
We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments all Birdies get an extra Birthday day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.
Birdie giving days
Birdie is a Bcorp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause youre passionate about) each year.
Sabbaticals
We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.
Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts
Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.
Cycle to work scheme
Birdie will buy a bike upfront and you can salary sacrifice to payoff over the next 1236 months
Parental Leave
Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave at 100 of your usual salary.
Fertility Leave
Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.
Employer pension contribution
Birdie contributes 4 of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5 (UK Birdies)
Frequent company socials trips and meals
We organise many socials quarterly retreats and annual companywide retreats
Diversity Equity Inclusion and Belonging
At Birdie were committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity equity inclusion and belonging.
Its essential to us that youre able to bring your authentic self to work every single day no matter your age ethnicity religion citizenship gender identity sexual orientation disability status caring responsibilities neurodiversity or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.
If you have any questions regarding the interview process or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made please dont hesitate to contact us.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
