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# Data Engineer

- **Company:** Lupa Pets
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Transformation, Python (Programming Language), Delivery Pipeline, Apache Spark, Build Management, Data Lakes, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Docker
- **Published:** June 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0dd09e610be201c6

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Spark?, * Multiple years of hands-on data engineering experience in a professional setting

 * Strong Python skills and a demonstrated ability to build pipelines from scratch, not just extend existing ones
 * Solid knowledge of data modelling and practical experience with Apache Spark, AWS services, Docker, and Airflow
 * Experience in a startup or fast-growth environment where you've made pragmatic decisions under uncertainty
 * Scala experience (nice to have, we're happy to invest in teaching it if your foundations are strong)
 * Familiarity with dbt, Delta Lake, or similar modern data transformation tooling (nice to have)
 * Exposure to ML pipelines or feature stores (nice to have)

As a person, you:

 * Have a proactive, ownership-oriented mindset. You don't wait to be told something is broken
 * Take genuine pride in craft and correctness, and hold yourself to a high bar
 * Collaborate well with engineering teams who consume your data and communicate clearly across functions
 * Thrive in environments where you're expected to build from scratch, not inherit a tidy queue of tickets
 * Are excited to work in-person from our Paddington, London HQ (or equivalent location)

What does success look like in 6 months?

 * You've built and shipped at least two meaningful pipelines end-to-end
 * You own a defined area of the data platform and are making architectural calls with confidence
 * The team trusts your judgement without needing to review every decision

## Description

* Design and build data pipelines from raw ingestion through to clean, modelled, production-ready datasets that engineering and product teams rely on
 * Own data quality across your domain, defining standards, instrumenting checks, and resolving failures with urgency
 * Monitor pipeline health in production and respond to issues proactively, not reactively
 * Collaborate with engineering and product to understand data requirements and turn them into robust, scalable solutions
 * Help define and evolve the architecture of our data platform as we scale across new geographies and product surfaces
 * Document your work clearly so the team can understand, extend, and maintain what you build


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