Data Engineer

Data Engineer

Final date to receive applications: 19 June 2026

Department: Tech - Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Zinc - London

Compensation: £60,000 - £65,000 / year

We're looking for a Data Engineer to join our Technology team. Our data warehouse infrastructure is growing fast, and we need someone to own the pipelines that power our ops team.

This is a pure engineering role. You'll be building and maintaining the systems that move, transform, and serve data across the business. If you want to work on analytics or BI, this isn't the role for you. If you want to build robust pipelines and warehouse infrastructure at a fast-moving, AI-native SaaS company, read on.

You'll thrive here if you're self-directed, enjoy owning a problem end-to-end, and can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders. We're a small team and you'll have real impact from day one.

• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Airbyte
• Manage and optimise our Postgre
  
  SQL data warehouse
• Write and optimise SQL for internal ops team consumption
• Work with AWS Lambda and S3 for pipeline orchestration
• Translate business requirements into data pipeline solutions
• Support infrastructure reliability across the tech stack

• Strong SQL and Postgre
  
  SQL skills
• Experience with Airbyte or a similar ETL/ELT tool (e.g. Fivetran, Stitch)
• AWS experience — Lambda and S3 at minimum
• Git / version control
• 2–3 years in a data engineering role, ideally at a SaaS or tech company

• Mongo
  
  DB experience (our upstream source data)
• dbt for data transformation
• Python scripting
• Experience at a scaling start-up

Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring

• 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off
• £1200 annual benefits allowance (Thanks Ben, from month
  2)
• Early finish Fridays (16:00)
• Yearly company retreat abroad (This year to Turin)
• 30 days to Work from anywhere
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (2 months full pay, then statutory)
• Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
• Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
• Unlimited access to More Happi coaching
• Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
• Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
• Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
• Celebrated Zinc anniversaries