Data Engineer

We’re Atom and our mission is to democratise education. We use machine learning and a visually engaging tech platform to bring a fun, high-quality and personalised learning experience into every child’s home.

We combine exceptional teacher-made content with cutting-edge technology to provide fantastic affordable education to all children globally, regardless of background.

We’re one of Europe’s fastest-growing EdTech startups. Last year we improved the standard of education for over 200,000 students across the UK and Asia. This year, supported by our recent $25m investment from SoftBank, our goal is to reach 560,000 students.

We’re remote-first! While our main office is in London, our team is composed of over 120 people (and counting) working from 10 countries.

Atom Learning's been featured in Otta’s Annual Rocket List: the 100 fastest-growing companies to work for!

The role

Atom Learning is looking for a Data Engineer to join our growing team. Our Data Engineers support various aspects of the business by extracting and transforming our data to allow teams to derive insights and make key decisions.

How we work:

We work in small, cross-functional teams, known as pods, that all have an area of focus across our product suite. You will work closely with a number of pods to understand their data requirements and build scalable solutions to provide the important business intelligence information that they need.

Atom Learning’s mission is to make education fairer and you will work within a flat, decentralised management environment on a product that is changing the way children learn across the world, improving education standards for all.

What you will do:

• Develop data pipelines to migrate data from live databases to reporting tools;
• Assist in designing and architecting our data systems;
• Participate in code reviews to maintain our coding standards;
• Help other teams interpret data and derive insights;
• Document your work and share this across the engineering team; and
• Help expand the data engineering function in the company.

Who you are:

• You have experience designing, building, maintaining and scaling data pipelines;
• You are proficient in Python & SQL;
• You can write clear, readable code;
• You can create reusable solutions to fulfill a brief and support future changes;
• You are highly motivated contributor with excellent teamwork skills;
• You are enthusiastic about working in a rapidly growing start-up environment which focuses on creating a culture of freedom and responsibility.

Experience that will set you apart…

• Database architecture experience;
• Experience using Apache Airflow and Google BigQuery, or equivalent;
• Experience with DBT;
• Data visualisation knowledge, preferably Tableau or Looker.
• Desire to mentor junior members of the team.

Our Tech Stack

Our core data storage technology for our application is MySQL, although we are in the process of planning a migration to a cloud-native, scalable database. We also have deployments of Elastic for log data.

For analytics and BI, our data warehouse is Google BigQuery, with Airflow / DBT for ingesting and transforming data. Tableau is then used as our visualization/dashboarding layer.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays;
• 3 days winter leave
• Remote-first culture with the option to use our Old Street office;
• Annual L&D budget;
• Private medical with Vitality Health;
• EMI options available
• Access to wellbeing platform;
• Competitive pay;
• Enhanced family leave;
• Monthly remote and in person events in London
• High degree of autonomy and exposure to the running of all business areas of a successful startup;
• Brilliant colleagues and the opportunity to become an integral member of a fast-growing tech company.

Diversity & Inclusion at Atom Learning

At Atom Learning, diversity, equity and inclusion are essential parts of our mission. We strive to build an inclusive culture that encourages and supports voices from a diverse range of backgrounds. We know it fuels our creativity and brings us closer towards democratising education for children of all backgrounds

To achieve this, we commit to fostering an environment where everyone is valued and supported for who they are and in which individual differences and the contributions of all our staff are recognised and protected. We work to ensure that our recruitment, selection and assessment process is based entirely on skills and competencies and that we actively seek talent from all sections of society.