Analytics Engineer

About Zepz

Zepz is the group powering two leading global remittance brands: WorldRemit and Sendwave. Since 2010, we have been disrupting an industry previously dominated by offline legacy players with our relentless focus on reducing the cost of remittances and increasing safety and convenience for our users.

Every day, our people work to unlock the prosperity of cross-border communities through finance and technology - driven by our vision of a world that celebrates migrants’ impact on prosperity, at home and abroad.

In 2023, our brands helped cross-border communities send over $15bn from 50 countries to recipients in 130 countries. We operate over 2800 money transfer corridors worldwide and employ over 1,000 people globally. Zepz is a remote-first employer, with team members located across six continents

Come join us!

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Our Commitments:

1. We act like owners - We are relentlessly delivering for our users and spending money thoughtfully.
2. We embrace embarrassing honesty - We function best when we're open and honest with one another — especially about our challenges and doubts.
3. We have a bias to action - We get to first outcomes quickly, iterate and learn.
4. We strive to be better - We may make mistakes, but always learn from them.
5. We are inclusive - to better reflect and serve our users.

About the role :

The Analytics Experience team is committed to empowering other Zepz teams to leverage data in order to solve analytical problems. We are a team of analytics and data engineers that work together to go from ideation to production. We own the core semantic layer for the data organization, creating a Zepz view of the WorldRemit and Sendwave brand data. As a member of this hub and spoke data team, you'll be at the forefront of the Zepz data transformation as we continue to expand our core models and assist in development of individual domain models. By translating complex data into actionable insights, you will empower our brands to make strategic decisions and extend their positive impact on a global scale.

This role will report to the Senior Engineering Manager and collaborate with various parts of the Zepz organization. Together you will build new data models and optimize existing ones to drive insights and recommendations from our data. The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and optimizing data pipelines and analytical solutions that drive business insights and decision-making. You will work closely with data analysts, data scientists, and other stakeholders to ensure data accuracy, availability, and usability.

As a Analytics Engineer, you will own:

• Developing, testing, and implementing data models to ensure data integrity and performance using DBT.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand data needs and develop solutions to meet those needs.
• Contributing to and following best practices for data consumption, including educating data consumers on data quality, availability and interpretation
• Optimizing existing data processes and pipelines to improve efficiency and reduce latency.
• Identifying opportunities to reduce complexity and increase efficiency across data models and our data warehouse
• Troubleshooting and resolving data issues, ensuring data quality and reliability.
• Ensuring the data and output is of high quality - tested, automated, scalable and documented

What we’re looking for from you:

• Experience with DBT to design and implement data models.
• Experience using a modern data warehouse (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery) for scalable and efficient data processing.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with database technologies (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redshift).
• You have the ability to work confidently with the tools of modern software engineering, for example working with the command line, version control, testing and performing code reviews
• You have previous use of any orchestration tools similar to Airflow, DBT Cloud or Fivetran.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Mode, Tableau, Looker).
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and their data services.
• You’re comfortable, or have an interest in, reading and extracting data transformation processes from Python scripts.
• You see yourself as a problem-solver who wants to understand the business problem and communicate the commercial impact alongside the technical solution
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a distributed team environment.
• You are comfortable collaborating across multiple time zones.
• You have an open mind with respect to diversity and inclusivity. Our team (and customers) come from all over the world

What we offer you:

Please note that the benefits below will apply to permanent roles.

We have five core benefits for our talent in the US, UK, Philippines, Poland, and South Africa. If you're not in one of those regions, don’t worry - the Talent team can let you know what is available for you specifically:

• Unlimited Annual Leave: Most Zepz team members are eligible for unlimited annual leave. Colleagues in customer-facing roles, receive a competitive holiday allowance and four recharge days a year. Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work-life balance!
• Private Medical Cover: ​​You can opt-in to a Private Medical Insurance scheme. This provides you with access to thorough medical coverage, so you can feel confident in your health and well-being.
• Retirement: We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future.
• Life Assurance: Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected.
• Parental Leave: We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible.

We are also remote-first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive. In many locations, we have workspaces, which you can use as you desire. Most roles in the Philippines are predominately office-based, with this we offer free meals for those 100% on-site.

In addition to the above, you will discover that we have a range of secondary perks (such as the cycle-to-work scheme and employee discounts) depending on your location, to help you thrive at Zepz!

Why choose Zepz?

• Our team of over 1,000 employees is fully distributed across the world. We are working from coffee shops, homes, and co-working spaces — making us one of the larger fully distributed growth-stage startups in the world but we also offer workspace in our talent cluster locations - spaces we can meet, collaborate and connect.
• We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs.
• We collectively speak over twenty languages, including Akuapem, Amharic, Bengali, Ewe, Fante, Ga, Igbo, Kalenjin, Luganda, Oromo, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
• At Zepz, embodying our commitments binds us together. We are collectively passionate about striving to achieve our vision and purpose - to continue to provide the best service to our users.

Ready to Apply?

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional), highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. But we'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. Zepz is a place where everyone can thrive.

So however you identify and whatever background you bring with you, and if at all you might need any form of support to make the process as comfortable as possible, please let us know and give us a shot by applying. We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.