Senior Data Engineer

FitXR is a fitness technology company working at the cutting edge of VR and MR, building a movement for movement.

We started life in 2016 in a garden shed in the UK. Today, we’re building FitXR, one of the top-downloaded apps on the Meta Quest store. We’ve raised close to $30m from top investors such as Maveron, Hiro, and BoostVC.

We've built a growing range of fitness studios, from box workouts with world-class trainers like Olympian Nicola Adams to immersive Zumba dance classes. While nothing compares to trying it yourself, you can watch a trailer here.

Our team is distributed across Europe and the US. We’re guided by our Principles of Play: four core beliefs about how we treat each other and our community. We make space for every voice, believe in the importance of a learner’s mindset, and prioritize team success over individual glory.

FitXR is available on Meta Quest 2 & 3 and has been downloaded by over a million people worldwide and featured in Forbes, Empire, T3, Washington Post, Men's Health, GQ and more. In 2022, FitXR ranked 6th in The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups.

TLDR

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to add to our already incredible team. This is an environment where your passion for Analytics will truly shine, as you drive forwards the influence of data around the organisation through delivering a high quality, trustworthy, impact focused data foundation for our analysts and all internal stakeholders.

This is a high-profile role within the organisation and you will work closely with cross-functional Leads, Senior Leadership Team and the CEO.

What you’ll find here 

• A seriously passionate global team - and you'll be partnering across the entire business working with a range of individuals across different functions and seniority levels, all experts of their craft and eager to collaborate with yourself to drive FitXR forwards

• A safe space to trial, measure, learn, adapt - and an audience hungry for data

• A culture built on delivering greatness, iterating, sharing feedback and trying new things - we want you to take bold bets focused on driving value to our customers, and tell us what you learn if it doesn’t work

• Strong direction, with clear objectives and priorities, and forums to challenge and collaborate on these

• A highly invested senior leadership team who believe our people are what will take our business to the next level - they are your teammates, cheerleaders, coaches, support team - working beside you as we build the #1 immersive fitness app in the world

• Strong foundations, but an openness to work your way - we have a high quality bar when it comes to delivery, but teams have the freedom to self-organise how they achieve this

• An excellent benefits package - see below

Where you’ll spend your time

• Design and deliver new data products and pipelines for the data team, internal stakeholders, and customer facing features - fueling the power of data across the organisation

• Iterate and innovate on our data infrastructure to ensure it is cost effective, trustworthy and rich with impact focused data - our data stack is currently AWS, Dagster, dbt, Snowflake, Lightdash
• Iterate on our BI data foundations to increase efficiency and data accessibility across the organisation - providing everyone in the business with clarity on business performance
• Maintain and improve monitoring on our data pipelines
• Help internal stakeholders understand our data foundations and how they can utilise data engineering
• Maintain and guide data governance

We’d love to see from you

• You proactively identify opportunities to leverage data to drive forwards the company’s short, medium and long term goals, once identified you drive through to execution and realise high levels of impact
• You can gather requirements and apply your own business knowledge to independently build impactful datasets for any stakeholder. You embrace this challenge and deliver high quality work with a can-do attitude
• You are a great collaborator comfortable working with engineers, product teams, analysts, and stakeholders across the business. You do so with an open-minded attitude, trusting others and taking responsibility for actions
• You stay on the cutting edge of technology in the Data Engineering space and have a passion for AI development in the space, using it to create high leverage on your day to day
• You proactively address technical debt but always critically assess ROI of these tasks
• You have professional experience using advanced SQL to manipulate large relational and non-relational datasets (transactions, complex joins, CTEs, window functions, stored procedures)
• You have experience using dbt to transform datasets
• You have some experience with using python for Data Engineering
• You have some experience in building the background of data visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Looker or Tableau

Our mission is to make the world a healthier place with the world's most loved fitness product: to create a Movement for Movement. To build inclusive products, we need to build an inclusive team. Please know that this list is indicative and that we would still love to hear from you even if you feel you only are a 75% match. Skills can be learnt, diversity cannot. We promote a diverse and inclusive culture at FitXR.

Logistics 🛠

Our interview process takes place on Google Hangouts and tends to consist of the following stages:

• Initial screen with the talent team

• 1st Stage-Competency focus

• 2nd Stage-Cross Collaboration focus

• Founder / Exec Interview

Some roles will have extra stages but we’ll let you know as early as possible if so.

Please let us know if you require any accommodations for the interview process, and we’ll do our best to provide assistance.

Benefits 🌱

As well as being fully remote, our benefits include:

🏝 Unlimited annual leave

📈 Stock options - everyone is an owner

🌱 £800 per annum learning budget and £400 home office setup budget

🧘 £900 per annum wellbeing budget (Private Health Insurance available)

🤗 Annual company retreat & regular get togethers

💻 VR headset

👶 12 weeks full paid family leave