Junior Data Engineer

📍 Location: London (Hybrid - 2 days in the office)

🕛 Job type: Full Time

Who we are

We're a group of restaurant-obsessed foodies with a passion for shifting restaurants from surviving to thriving.

Our purpose is to supercharge restaurant performance and our mission explains how we’re going to do just that. We believe that every restaurant operator should know what’s going on in their business and what they can do to optimise their performance.

We are backed by Techstars and leading Silicon Valley venture capitalists and this is an epic opportunity to be part of a fast-growing, exciting start-up with a huge amount of growth potential.

Tenzo team in numbers: 4 offices, 14 nationalities, about 30 Tenzonians.

Diversity and Inclusion

Tenzo is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, age, veteran status, or disability status.

About the role

You’ll be joining our Product Engineering team, specifically our Aggregate Team. The Aggregate Team is responsible for building and maintaining our data pipeline and ETL processes, which form the core of our product and define what makes Tenzo unique. With over 70 integrations and counting, we are constantly expanding our capabilities and handling substantial amounts of data that feed our web and mobile applications.

The Aggregate Team is strategic for us, with a primary focus on leading innovation, enhancing functionality, scalability, and connectivity of our new and legacy integrations, ultimately delivering seamless experiences for our valued customers and partners.

You can explore our integrations here: Tenzo Integrations

This is an exciting opportunity for a junior professional to grow and make a meaningful impact at Tenzo. This role offers the chance to learn how our product integrates and interacts with external systems, partners, and platforms.

Our Tech Stack:

• Apache Airflow
• Python
• Django
• AWS (S3, RDS with Postgresql, ElastiCache, MSK, EC2, ECS, Fargate, Lamda etc.)
• Snowflake
• Terraform
• CircleCI

Your mission

• Support the design and development of data pipelines, learning to orchestrate key activities such as data ingestion, extraction and transformation, task automation
• Work on data challenges under guidance, focusing on delivering short-term wins while building understanding of longer-term value.
• Assist in building robust, scalable, and efficient integrations using industry-standard protocols and APIs.
• Support optimisation and troubleshooting of data workflows to ensure efficiency and reliability.
• Help implement and improve data quality and validation checks to ensure data integrity.
• Assist in identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving data mismatch bugs and other data quality issues. This includes reviewing and validating data from various sources, such as spreadsheets, to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of our data warehouse solution on Snowflake under supervision.
• Collaborate with our product manager and stakeholders to understand and document data requirements.
• Learn about data storage optimisation, infrastructure performance and cost considerations.
• Learn and apply data and cloud engineering best practices.
• Work in a high-performing team, contributing to ticket creation and refinement, and participating in planning sessions and team retrospectives.

About you

• Shows curiosity and eagerness to learn about data engineering concepts and practices
• Demonstrates strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams
• Willing to take initiative, ask questions, and contribute ideas while learning to own work with appropriate guidance
• Has basic understanding of SQL databases and interest in learning about analytical data warehouses, data orchestration and data pipeline tools
• Eager to learn technical documentation and planning
• Has some exposure to agile development practices such as scrum or kanban

What you’ll bring to the role

• Basic proficiency in Python programming for data manipulation and automation ( Must have )
• Fundamental knowledge of SQL and exposure to relational databases such as PostgreSQL ( Highly desirable )
• Interest in learning data pipeline and workflow management tools such as Apache Airflow ( Nice to have )
• Basic proficiency in Git ( Important )
• Eagerness to learn how to write high-quality code, technical documentation, aand production plans ( Important )
• Basic understanding of data challenges and willingness to learn strategies to address them, including data quality, privacy, and security ( Important )
• A pragmatic approach to learning data engineering, with interest in understanding both near-term solutions and future-proofing concepts ( Important )
• Interest in learning data management best practices, including frameworks for testing, monitoring, and alerting in relation to data pipelines ( Important )
• Some exposure to cloud platforms, particularly AWS, or strong interest in learning ( Nice to have )
• Entry-level to 2 years of experience in data engineering, software development, or related field
• Candidates with any experience in our tech stack will be prioritised, but we encourage applications from those eager to learn new technologies

Candidates with experience in our tech stack will be prioritised, but don't be discouraged if you lack experience in some areas of our tech stack.

Work perks and benefits

Tenzo is committed to improving the general well-being of our team members. As our 'Passionate about our people' value states: we aim to create a supportive and diverse environment for our people to grow. Working as part of a small team, you will benefit from a level of responsibility from the get-go. We also commit to a dedicated time for personal development and clear career progression in an exciting time of growth and development of the company.

• 💻 Tenzo Swag
  We’ll hook you up with workstation perks, Macbook and all software needed on your first day!
• 🏡 Work from Home
  You'll receive a £75 work from home set-up budget, which renews every year
• 🕰️ Flexible Working
  A minimum of 2 days a week in the London office, plus any additional days such as trade shows, team quarterly meet-ups
• 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave
  Having a child is an exciting time in anyone’s life. Tenzo is an inclusive employer, meaning we support all types of families equally.
• 📈 Stock Options
  Eligibility to our stock options program
• 💰 Pension
  ESG pension scheme
• 🍴 Customer Lunches
  Every month we plan a team lunch at one of our customer’s restaurants
• ⛰️ Tenzo Offsite
  A chance to meet fellow team members from all over the world at our annual team offsite
• 👓 Your Eyesight
  We cover tests and contribute £75 to spectacles (or equivalent in local currency)
• 💗 Your Development
  Dedicated time for personal & professional development (we’re supportive of external L&D resources when needed) and monthly lunch and learns
• 🌴 Annual Leave
  25 days of holiday + bank holidays (increasing to 27 after 1 year and 29 after 2 years tenure)
• ✈️ Work Abroad
  Seeking a change in environment? Enjoy up to 2 weeks during the UK summertime working abroad!
• 🥳 Socials
  Monthly events both in person and virtually!

Please note: exclusively no recruiter emails for this role. We have established recruitment partnership agreements in place and no need to work with additional recruitment partners at this time.