Data Engineer II at moo

MOO set out to shake up the world of print back in 2006. And we’ve come a long way since. Today we’re a 400 + strong team (we’re thinking of getting matching jackets) who create print and digital products for companies of all sizes – from Google and AirBnB to the guy who makes those amazing prints you found at a craft fair.    Our global HQ is in London, UK, while we also have premises in Dagenham. In the US, you’ll find us in Boston, MA, as well as East Providence, RI and Denver, CO and now in Cape Town South Africa! What You'll Do • Help evolve our modern data platform to support reliable analytics and emerging AI use cases • Design, build, and maintain robust, production-grade data pipelines using Dagster, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and performance • Implement data quality checks and reliability patterns to ensure trusted, high-quality data across the platform. • Contribute to the definition and evolution of data modelling standards, dbt best practices, and governance to keep our analytics layer modular, testable, and scalable • Collaborate with analytics and product teams to enable impactful data and AI use cases • Identify opportunities to improve the architecture, tooling, and developer experience of the data platform as our needs scale What we're looking for • 3–5 years experience in Data Engineering or a similar role • Strong Python skills with a focus on writing clean, modular code to enhance and extend platform capabilities • Experience working with orchestration frameworks (e.g. Dagster, Airflow, Prefect, etc), building dependable, self healing and well structured workflows • Proven SQL & dbt (or similar tools, e.g. Dataform) skills with a focus on performance, modularity, readability and scalable analytics-focused models • Experience with modern cloud data warehouses or databases for analytics (we use Snowflake, but others are also welcome) • Strong focus on data quality, including testing, validation, and proactive issue detection • Confidence investigating and debugging data issues end-to-end, performing root cause analysis • Thoughtful views on data modeling and software best practices, with the ability to advocate for standards while remaining open to pragmatic alternatives Nice To Have • Near real-time or streaming analytics pipelines • Supporting data related AI or ML use cases • Data observability and quality monitoring tools (e.g. Elementary, etc) • Implementing Metrics/Semantic layer • Data contracts, schema governance and data classification practices • Worked with BI Tools (Tableau, Looker, etc) • Terraform • Experience with Cloud Services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc) • Data Warehouse performance tuning and optimisation What’s it like to work at MOO?  MOO’s the kind of workplace where you can really be yourself. Dye your hair purple. Hit the sofa with your laptop. Whatever helps you feel comfortable and happy at work. We want to help you grow in your career and set you up for success – while also recognising the importance of a healthy work/life balance. That’s why we offer 19 days holiday rising by one day for each year here (for 5 years), a matched pension scheme, and paid parental leave. We’ll offer you private healthcare and life insurance. We also offer flexible work schedules with hybrid and remote working for certain roles. Diversity Statement We are working hard to create a representative, inclusive and super-friendly team, because we know that different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds make for a better workplace. And that creates a better experience for our customers. MOO doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class. As a design and technology company we have a desire and a responsibility to build a business that represents the world around us. So we strive to create a values-driven, purposeful and highly empowered organisation that we are all proud to work for. And we are committed to continuous investment in building an open and inclusive environment, welcoming a diverse audience of candidates who see themselves working and thriving at MOO. Therefore, we’d like to invite you to complete this optional survey to help us evaluate our inclusion and diversity efforts. Completing this form is entirely voluntary and if you decide not to it won’t in any way affect your job application. We keep the information separate from your application and it is kept secure and confidential, it is only used to better our inclusion and diversity efforts. By submitting this information, you consent to MOO's processing of it for these purposes.