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< class="h3">About Save My Exams

Save My Exams is an online education platform dedicated to helping students achieve better grades in their exams. We support millions of students, tutors and teachers all over the world by making studying easier and more enjoyable.

We launched our platform in 2017 and since then we have grown to over 45,000 paying subscribers. Our growth has been driven by an exceptional product that our users love, which is why we get reviews like this:

“In my graduation speech, I’m saying thank you to Save My Exams for teaching me the things my teachers didn’t!”

We are immensely proud to have helped so many students at such an important point in their lives and we are super excited to continue finding new and innovative ways to help them further.

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< class="h3">  < class="h3">The Role

This role is a unique opportunity to join a fast-growing, profitable Edtech company and shape an industry-leading product that students, parents, and teachers love. In a few short years, Save My Exams has grown to over 45,000 subscribers by building an exceptional product that helps users achieve better grades.

As our first Data Engineer you’ll have the opportunity to shape and own the development of our data platform, working closely with our Data & Insights Manager to understand our data needs and support data-driven decision making throughout the business.

 

< class="h3">Our Stack

We don’t expect you to have worked with these exact technologies before, but this is the stack you’ll initially be working with and primarily responsible for. You’ll have the chance to influence how the stack evolves over time.

We use Snowflake for our data warehouse, loading data into it with Spark jobs managed by AWS Glue and written in Python. We have a variety of data sources, but mainly our data comes from our site’s analytics events (via RudderStack), operational MySQL database and 3rd party services like Stripe and Paypal. We use a few different tools for visualising and analysing data, including DataBox and Amplitude.

Requirements

Hopefully you’ll have done some of the following before:

• For this role we’re looking for someone who’s comfortable owning our data stack, ensuring it’s secure, reliable, maintainable and fit for our needs. Ideally you’ll have set up or worked with a modern data stack before.
• You've worked in a data team, know what great looks like, and would feel comfortable drawing on your experience to shape and define our stack
• You’ll have experience with engineering practices like version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code and observability.
• You’ll have worked with people in data analysis roles to understand data requirements, define data models, and provide clean, transformed data ready for analysis.
• You’re able to make pragmatic decisions over where it’s better to use off the shelf tooling and where to build things ourselves.
• Your verbal and written communication skills mean you can communicate well with a range of people primarily working remotely.

If this sounds like what you’d love to be doing, we can’t wait to hear from you. If you’re not sure that you exactly fit the above criteria, please get in touch anyway and we can always arrange an informal chat as a starting point.

Benefits

Working for a fast-growing, bootstrapped education company is a rare opportunity, one we consider a lifestyle choice rather than a job choice.

Our positions are challenging, but also come with amazing advantages and opportunities.

Here’s what we offer:

• Competitive annual salary between £50k - £90k depending on experience, skills, and where in the world you’re based
• Annual profit share bonus, stock options, and pension contribution
• 28 days paid vacation (plus UK bank holidays)
• Paid sabbatical every 3 years - an extra 28 days paid leave on top of your annual holiday allowance
• Learning & development budget of 3 days and £500 per year
• Remote, flexible working, including when you start & end your day. Work from home or wherever you want. We’re UK-based but with team members all over the world
• The opportunity to work with an amazing team of erse, talented and friendly people who love what we do
• A friendly, positive, and inclusive team culture – we’re motivated to work hard but we also have fun, with weekly fitness classes and whole company get togethers

 

< class="h3">The Process

Here's an overview of our hiring process, so you know what to expect. We aim for a fast and straight-forward process.

• Call with hiring manager
• A technical and team interview
• Follow-up and offer

< class="h3">  < class="h3">All Are Welcome Here

Save My Exams is an equal opportunities employer and we are committed to building and empowering an inclusive community within our company.

Our goal is to create a workplace where everyone is treated fairly, equitably and respectfully.

Research shows that underrepresented groups apply only if they fully meet the criteria in a job listing. Save My Exams is committed to levelling the playing field, and we encourage anyone from any background to apply even if they don't check every box on our job listing.

We believe flexibility is important, and we're happy to chat to you about flexible and remote working. If you need any flexibility or adjustments in our interview process - to help set you up for success - then please let us know too.

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