Description
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.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Airbyte
• Manage and optimise our PostgreSQL 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
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
Essential:
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL 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
Desirable:
• MongoDB experience (our upstream source data)
• dbt for data transformation
• Python scripting
• Experience at a scaling start-up
What we offer 🍉
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 (ThanksBen, 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 MoreHappi 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 🥳
Who we are ⚡
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.
📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/mission
We're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.
🪴We recently redefined our company values:
🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.