Data Engineer

Cape Town, South Africa
Data – Data Engineering /
Permanent, Full-Time /
Hybrid
AnyVan makes moving anything anywhere, easier, more affordable and greener for everyone.  With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry.
 
Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light – i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers.  We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process to optimise the most efficient journeys.
 
Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here!
 
So if you want to move your career forward we'd love to hear from you! 

Our data engineering team are on a mission: To build a secure, resilient and cost-effective data platform that makes it possible for everyone to be an analyst.

We're at the beginning of our data journey so this is an exciting opportunity to help us shape and mould great data practices with some super smart colleagues in a dynamic, fun business.

We want everyone in the business to be able to make best in class data driven decisions that support our growth. We're pragmatic and open mind about introducing new tools that will drive efficiencies and look to look to simplify processes and prioritise automation to enable the business to quickly adapt to changing needs.

Some of your daily responsibilities will include the following:

    • Design, implement and maintain (monitoring, alerting, incident resolution) a Data Warehouse
    • Administer tools and systems (security, access control, performance)
    • Help Software Engineering Teams understand how the features they release perform over time
    • Help the BI team in their journey to promote self-service datasets for key business areas
    • Automation through Infrastructure As Code and scripting
    • Data quality and consistency data standardisation, documentation and user onboarding
    • Ingestion of new data sources to our data warehouse

Here are some of the tools and technologies you will use;

    • Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt, Tableau, Airflow, Python, AWS Services (Fargate, S3, IAM, Secrets Manager, Cloudwatch, to name a few), Terraform, CircleCI, Github, Docker, Datadog, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Google Suite.

Skills and experience we think you'll need to be successful in the role;

    • Minimum of 2 years experience in a data engineering role

Company Benefits

    • Highly competitive base salary
    • Medical Aid contribution ZAR1000 per month
    • 5% employee, 5% employer pension fund
    • 20 days holiday a year plus public holidays
    • Transport home
    • In-house barista
    • Friday drinks and regular social activities
    • The chance to work for a fast-growing disruptive technology business
DE&I
In our pursuit of fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we invite individuals from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. Together, let's create a culture where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every person is empowered to thrive.

Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship it will be highlighted in the requirements section of the job advert.
 

Working Patterns
We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides - all our roles require regular time in our office in the central business district in Cape Town.
 
We do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible (3 days in office, 2 days from home). However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based.
  

Our Values Are Own, Drive, Deliver:
Own - Have fun, get it done
Work hard, play harder
Satisfaction in results
Do the right thing
 
Drive - Progress Over Perfection
Innovate and disrupt
Curious and adaptable
Work quick, learn quicker
 
Deliver - One Team Thinking Big
Collaborate and communicate
Celebrate wins
Embrace challenges