Fashion-Tech,
London

About my client:

They are the definitive fashion shopping website and app,
used by over 150M shoppers a year to discover and buy fashion. More than 8.5M
products from over 12,000 brands and stores can be accessed through their website
and app, offering shoppers convenience and unparalleled choice.

This is a great opportunity should you be looking to work in
small, self-managing, autonomous teams with end-to-end responsibility for a
specific customer-focused project.

About the Role:

• Senior Engineer (Commercial Data): You will help build
  microservices and pipelines that process and serve all the data relating to their
  partners, fashion brands and other commercial agreements. You will have the
  opportunity for impact by building and maintaining some of the core services.
• Lead Engineer (Core Data): you will help build microservices
  and pipelines that process and serve all the data relating to their users,
  admin tools, experiment frameworks and other core services that are used across
  the company. You will have the opportunity for impact by leading the team that
  builds and maintains some of the core services.

• Microservices: Maintaining and extending multiple
  microservices to ensure the data needed to power the website and app are gathered
  and served in a timely and scalable manner
• Data pipelines: Ensuring all relevant data is correctly
  stored in their data lake, and transforming the data into forms suitable for
  consumption by other teams
• Admin tools: Creating tools to allow manual updates and
  curation of the data
• Analytics, Reporting and Monitoring: Creating reports and
  dashboards to monitor the health of both their data and their systems
• Mentoring: Helping more junior engineers grow technically in
  their roles
• They work mainly in Python, running on a range of AWS
  technologies such as S3, ECS, SQS, Glue, and Postgres RDS, along with non-AWS
  tools such as Snowflake, CircleCI, Docker and Github
• We have high engineering standards and practice comprehensive
  testing, code reviews, continuous integration and continuous deployment across
  all engineering teams
• Prioritisation: Ensuring the team is working on the most
  impactful project at the correct time (Lead position)

About You:

• Communication:
  You can communicate clearly and be humble when sharing ideas with everyone on
  the team
• Commitment
  to quality: You strive to write code that is readable by everyone, well tested
  and robust in production
• Motivation:
  You understand and are motivated by the challenge of building scalable,
  reliable distributed systems
• Experience
  with data processing in the cloud: You have experience working with large
  amounts of remotely hosted data and developing tools and infrastructure needed
  to process this
• You
  will also be experienced using traditional relational databases (e.g. Postgres)
  and have good intuition for how to write efficient SQL queries
• You
  will have excellent Python knowledge and experience and be up to date on best
  Python practices
• Bonus:
  You have experience using PySpark/Spark

What do they offer:

• You get 29 days' time off throughout the year to take a well
  earned rest, in addition to the 8 public bank holidays
• As a fashion company they give you £250 to spend on the site
  in Year 1, £500 in Year 2, £750 in Year 3 and £1000 from Year 4 onwards.
• Private Healthcare by Vitality.
• Conferences and events. They big on learning, so all employees
  are allocated an individual training & development budget of £1,000.
• Enhanced family leave entitlements for both parents and
  carers
• Discounted eye tests and glasses
• Team meet-ups, social events, sports and exercise events
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Transport season ticket loans