Data Engineer

JOIN OUR MOVEMENT AND CHAMPION RESTAURANT CULTURE! 💚   At TheFork we believe that the best things in life happen around the table. As the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe, we connect the broadest community of loyal diners with the world’s favorite restaurants. Powered by innovation and a deep passion for the restaurant industry, we create unique dining experiences across 11 countries. We’re part of the Tripadvisor Group and proud to be building a diverse, people-first culture where “respect”, “ownership”, “growth” and “better together” values thrive. If you’re passionate about food, technology, and making a real impact, your seat at the table is ready. 👉 Discover life at TheFork   WHAT YOU WILL DO:  We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Core Data team and play a key role in transforming TheFork’s data capabilities through the implementation of a modern, self-service Data Platform (DPaaS). In this role, you will not only build scalable, production-grade data pipelines, but also contribute to designing and evolving the platform that enables domain teams to autonomously produce and consume trusted data products. You will apply strong software engineering principles to data engineering, help define governance standards, and actively contribute to shifting our organisation from a centralised BI model to a federated, domain-oriented data ecosystem. You will report directly to the Senior Data Engineering Manager and work in close collaboration with: * DataOps team: who own the Data Platform infrastructure * Architects: to ensure technical decisions align with enterprise architecture * BI teams, Engineering teams and Data Science teams: who are the main consumers of the platform   KEY RESPONSIBILITIES TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP & DELIVERY * Design and implement scalable, production-grade data pipelines following strong software engineering practices (version control, CI/CD, automated testing, observability). * Lead the evolution of orchestration patterns in Airflow to improve scalability, reliability, and maintainability. * Drive technical POCs to evaluate new tools, architectural patterns, and performance improvements aligned with the platform roadmap. * Contribute to shaping and validating the target data architecture in collaboration with Architects, Staff Engineers, and DataOps. * Proactively identify system weaknesses and design for failure, defining mitigation strategies and resilience patterns. DATA GOVERNANCE & QUALITY * Implement and enforce data contracts and quality controls aligned with defined SLOs. * Apply data modeling best practices including medallion architecture to create trusted, reusable data assets * Contribute to establishing domain ownership principles and clear single sources of truth. * Ensure lineage, metadata, and observability mechanisms are embedded by design in all pipelines. ENABLEMENT & COLLABORATION * Drive technical alignment across teams through clear documentation, standards, and mentoring. * Partner with DataOps to ensure infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform automation at scale. * Actively support product and engineering teams in adopting the platform, with a strong focus on developer experience. * Build cross-functional relationships to accelerate adoption and drive platform impact. TECHNICAL EXPERTISE   YOU MUST MEET THESE CRITICAL QUALIFICATIONS  Minimum 6 years of data engineering experience, including significant exposure to production-grade data platforms and cross-team leadership.   DATA PLATFORM & ARCHITECTURE * Deep hands-on experience with a modern cloud lakehouse in production-grade environments (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks, …). * Strong expertise in analytical data modeling (including medallion architecture) and safe schema evolution. * Proven experience designing scalable, incremental ELT pipelines. * Strong understanding of MPP systems and distributed data processing principles. PERFORMANCE & COST OPTIMIZATION * Experience optimizing query performance and compute cost in cloud data warehouses. * Cost-aware design mindset. ORCHESTRATION & DATA INTEGRATION * Advanced proven experience with Airflow, including scalable DAG design, dependency management, and failure handling strategies. * Strong experience designing and operating production-grade ELT pipelines using modern integration tools (e.g. Airbyte or similar) or custom ingestion frameworks. * Experience designing self-service data platform capabilities is a strong plus. CLOUD & INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING * Strong experience with AWS-based data architectures (S3, IAM, networking fundamentals). * Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform). * Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for data workflows. * Understanding of security-by-design principles in cloud data environments. DATA QUALITY, GOVERNANCE & OBSERVABILITY * Experience implementing data quality frameworks, data contracts, and validation strategies. * Strong understanding of metadata management, lineage tracking, and monitoring practices. * Experience embedding observability and reliability into pipelines (alerting, SLOs, incident response mindset). EXECUTION & AUTONOMY * Lead initiatives end-to-end, from problem framing to production rollout, with high autonomy. * Structure complex technical problems into actionable plans and manage cross-team dependencies. * Make informed architectural trade-offs balancing scalability, cost, reliability, and time-to-market. * Take ownership of platform stability and continuously improve operational excellence. * Mentor and help other engineers grow through technical guidance and feedback.   WHAT WE OFFER YOU: 😄 An awesome team  🏠 A permanent contract (that can be useful in life)  ⚖️Flexible working environment (2 days home office per week +  up to 4 total weeks additional flexibility during the summer period and in December to work fully remotely) 💸 Competitive fixed salary and bonus  🍕 Lunch vouchers available for each working day (because yes, we like to try our best restaurants)   🌎 International teams and a multicultural environment spanning 10 offices across Europe 🤝 Highly inclusive working environment  🤸‍♀️ Lifestyle benefits that can be used to reimburse expenses related to physical and leisure activities, family support, travel etc  🎓 Continuous learning and development programs 😌 Free access to the Calm app to help you build resilience wherever you are in your mental health journey 🐣Dedicated parental leave and caregiver leave policies (12 weeks fully paid) 🏥Health insurance 👩‍🦽 Life & Disability Insurance at no cost to the employee 🍴 Amazing offices with dining, coffee points and leisure area     🎤 Team building events   All hiring happens through our careers site and official email. We do not text or ask for payment during the hiring process. Please report any suspicious messages immediately. We believe that we are better together, and we welcome you for who you are. We endeavor to ensure  that everyone - regardless of ability, age, socio-economic & cultural background, ethnicity, faith, gender, gender expression, gender identity, ideology, national origin, race, sexual orientation, marital status, or any characteristic protected under  applicable law -has the opportunity to reach their full potential. At TheFork, we want you to bring us your unique perspectives and experiences, so we can collectively continue disrupting the restaurant industry and go from good to great.   TheFork is committed to a fair recruitment process. If you have special needs and require reasonable support during your application,  interview, or participation in the selection process due to health conditions or disability, please direct your inquiries to AccessibleRecruitment@TheFork.com. Our HR team will review the request and respond accordingly. #LI-FF1

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone. We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking. After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.  With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers! We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   📍Barcelona, Spain | 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance  + benefits  Hybrid model: 3 days a week in the office About our Engineering Teams: We have over 400 engineers across Monzo who design and build our in-house banking platform. We have big ambitions for the future, and technology plays a big role in creating a bank our customers want, so engineers at Monzo collaborate across disciplines to solve interesting challenges throughout the company. These range from the products our customers use everyday to underlying infrastructure, security, payments and finance, customer operations, financial crime, and data, to name just a few areas. As a bank, there is scope for impact across a huge number of opportunities. We contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do! Your day-to-day    This role is all about collaborating with your team to make a difference to your customers. As a backend engineer you’ll work in a squad alongside other disciplines like product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!  Together you’ll build and support a particular part of Monzo. Our squads belong to our wider collectives (a word we use to describe self-governing business units of ~100 people). They are; Core Banking, Business Banking, Wealth, Borrowing, Growth, Payments, Platform, Fincrime, Security & Expansion. They’re all looking for additional Backend Engineers right now, we do a standard interview process across all our collectives and at the end we will find the best match for you based on your skills, experience, preferences and aligning with the business need!  Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles. You should apply if: * you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product * you want to be involved in building a product that you (and the people you know) use every day * you have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions * you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity * you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software * you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.). * you think you’d enjoy the kind of work we’re doing We're on the look out for L30 Engineers at the moment, you can read more in our Engineering Progression Framework you will be interviewed across the whole framework, so if you're not sure what level you're aiming for chat to your recruiter!  Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At Monzo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply— even if you don’t have everything thats listed just yet. Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you! What you’ll be working on:  We hire very technically agnostic so whilst we use the below technologies we do not expect prior knowledge, you will be fully supported in our organised onboarding to get up to speed in the below:  * Go to write our application code (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here) * Cassandra for most persistent data storage * Kafka for our asynchronous message queue * Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services  * Envoy Proxy for RPC * AWS for most of our production infrastructure and GCP for most of our data infrastructure * React for our public web apps and internal tools * We also have physical datacenters with actual cables to connect to various third parties The Interview Process: Our interview process involves three main stages:  1. Initial Call  2. Take home task or pair coding exercise  3. Final interview: including a system design and a behavioural interview  Our average process takes around 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability.  One of our engineers has written a detailed blog on their experience through this process, for extra details, hints and tips please see here. What’s in it for you: 💰 Base salary for this role is depending on experience + Incentive Awards tied to your performance  + benefits  📍Barcelona, Spain ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team. 📚Learning budget of €1,200 a year for books, training courses and conferences   #LI-JS1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Equal opportunities for everyone Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report. We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status. If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊