About Marshmallow

We started Marshmallow when we found out how unfair insurance prices are for people who move to the UK. All because the industry hasn’t given this huge cohort of people a second’s thought, and isn’t set up to price them properly. 

We saw an opportunity to do things differently, so we made it our mission to back the ones who step outside the norm. Since we started, we’ve helped 100,000s of people get a fairer deal on their car insurance. Using technology, we serve people that are often overlooked by financial services companies, solving important problems for people who need it most. 

We know there are millions of marginalised customers out there. And we know that they face unique problems that most companies aren’t even aware of. We believe that our future is helping these people by learning about their experiences, and building our company around their needs. And there are strong signs that there’s a need for a company like us. Earlier this year we hit profitability, which is a huge milestone, but the most exciting thing is that we’re only just getting started.

How we work

We’re really proud of the culture we’ve created. We push for progress every day, because we know that we’ll only hit big milestones by taking lots of smaller steps. We’re always open to helping our team mates, sharing our ideas, experience and knowledge to solve problems together. We take risks, think creatively and experiment relentlessly to meet our customer’s needs, and never pass blame when things go wrong. We encourage people at all levels to take ownership of their work, and to be bold in challenging how we do things. Everyone has a voice and the opportunity to make an impact. 

And autonomy and ownership are only possible with clear direction. That’s why we collaborate to do in-depth planning twice a year, and make sure we leave with clear goals and objectives that flow from top to bottom. To make sure we’re as aligned as possible across functions, most of our work rolls up into four tribes; Acquisition, Retention, Claims and Pricing, Underwriting & Fraud. Each tribe has multiple teams embedded in it, working cross-functionally to do great work.

We’re so excited for all of the challenges up ahead, and we need more people to help us tackle them! If life at Marshmallow sounds like it could be for you, explore our culture handbook or read our blog to find out more.

The Data Engineering Team

We’re here to empower teams and individuals with data, at all levels at Marshmallow. We work across teams, taking proactive action, evangelising a data driven culture, unlocking data silos and promoting tools which enable self-service.

Learn about our teams and how our engineers work here!

What you’ll be doing

• The Senior Data Engineer will act as the subject matter expert for any technical development of the data platform. Core components of the stack are DBT, Snowflake, AWS Kinesis, DMS, Airbyte and Segment. You will own these platforms, ensuring that any code changes and new features are built in a sustainable way and without contributing to tech debt.

• Senior Data Engineers will be required to form a deep understanding of our more holistic Data Platform to enable safe work on wider parts of the data stack.

• The Senior Data Engineer will partner closely with users of the platform ensuring the highest of usability and performance of the platform. They will view these tools/platforms holistically, designing a longer term strategy for how they can provide the most value to the business. Their success will be measured by the delivery of the evolving capabilities of the platform, the increase in self serve-ability for consumers and producers of the platform and the sustained performance of the platform.

• The Senior Data Engineer will collaborate with leadership in other functions within the org to ensure delivery of cross function initiatives such compliance and secops initiatives.

• Championing the best practices within the data engineering domain with an emphasis on data quality, governance and a healthy data culture.

• Add end to end autonomy, ownership and execution

Who you are (Must haves)

• You have commercial experience working on production data platforms in data intensive organisations. You have contributed to the improvements and feature development of these platforms.

• Deep understanding of OLAP databases and their architectures.

• You are comfortable with general Data Warehousing concepts.

• You have in depth experience with AWS services and how these are composed to make up an effective data platform (eg S3, Kinesis, Lambda, Glue etc).

• You are familiar with data orchestrations tooling such as Airflow or AWS Step Functions.

• You have a deep understanding of SQL and data modelling.

• You are proficient in Python, DBT, Terraform and Docker (Java is a plus).

• You proactively identify issues and opportunities that can improve work in your domain and beyond.

• You have experience building robust and reliable data pipelines requiring a high attention to detail and consideration for data quality.

What we're looking for from you (Nice to haves)

• You have had some exposure to Looker or similar data exploration and BI tooling.

Our process

We break it up into 4 stages:

• Initial call with one of our Talent team (30 mins)

• A skill-based where you will go through your past experience with the hiring manager

• A technical interview focusing on both architecture and coding (1 hour)

• Final behaviour based cultural interview (1 hour)

Everyone belongs at Marshmallow

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we're committed to hiring without judgement, prejudice or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We're working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun and feel that they belong.

Recruitment privacy policy

We take privacy seriously here at Marshmallow. Our Recruitment privacy notice explains how we process and handle your personal data. To find out more please view it here.