About this role
Suspense thrives on uncertainty, a calculated pause that draws in the observer. In this pause, placeholders emerge as valuable cues. Their very presence suggests that what is yet unseen could hold the answers, a revelation or a solution. When used thoughtfully, a placeholder can tease and compel, engaging the imagination.
Responsibilities
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- Maintaining engagement: By signaling more to come, placeholders prevent user drop-off.
- Setting expectations: Clear, well-placed placeholders hint at what content is coming next, adding structure.
- Building suspense: The anticipation of more content holds attention, just as in storytelling.
Placeholder content, however, must tread a careful line. Too sparse, and it risks undermining its own suspense; too dense, and it overwhelms with unnecessary clutter. The balance lies in leaving just enough room for the mind to wander and fill the gaps.
Analytics Engineer (UK Cards)
- London
- Full Time (Permanent)
- Hybrid
- Auto UK Engineering
About the role
We're looking for an analytics engineer to contribute to the analytical foundation of the UK Cards team, a growing area of the business.
You’ll work closely with analysts, product teams, backend engineers, and business stakeholders to improve how data is structured, transformed, and consumed across the company.
The role is fundamentally about building a strong analytical foundation: making it easier for teams to move from question to insight quickly, while maintaining high standards around data quality, scalability, and maintainability.
You'll contribute to the modelling layer, help improve how the business work with data, and support the team in keeping our warehouse a reliable, strategic asset for the business.
What you'll be doing
Building and improving the data models that support lending decisions, pricing, portfolio analysis, and investor reporting.
Championing standards and contributing to the improvement of our analytics engineering culture.
Supporting and collaborating with analysts at different technical levels,helping translate requirements into robust pipelines
Helping triage and resolve issues that affect the analytics pipeline or reduce trust in downstream datasets, and contributing ideas to improve the efficiency, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of our transformation pipeline over time.
Our modern data stack
You’ll work with a modern analytics stack centred around SQL, Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran and Claude.
What we're looking for
We’re looking for someone with solid analytics engineering fundamentals and the ability to apply them pragmatically in a fast-moving environment and explain tradeoffs to stakeholders with varying technical depth.
Strong DBT and SQL is a must
Strong data modelling skills and a good understanding of how analytical datasets should be structured for reliability and usability.
Strong experience with ELT pipelines and transformation at scale, ideally using dbt.
Experience with Snowflake or another modern cloud data warehouse.
Proactiveness in raising areas of data workflows that could be improved and suggesting solutions.
A collaborative working style and clear communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Comfort using AI tools effectively to move faster, improve quality, and strengthen day-to-day analytical and engineering workflows
Interview process
15 minute cognitive assessment
Initial chat
30 minute chat with hiring manager
60 minute technical interview
60 minute culture interview
Please note that unfortunately we're unable to sponsor for this position
About Lendable
Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.
Founded in 2014
Profitable since 2017
Unicorn in 2021
Backed by Balderton, Goldman Sachs and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
Loved by customers & employees with top reviews on Glassdoor and Trustpilot
So far, we’ve rebuilt the big three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days. We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do. We’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.
Life at Lendable
The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies
Best-in-class compensation, including equity
You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days we all come together IRL to be together, build and exchange ideas
Our in-house chefs prepare fresh, healthy lunches in the office every Tuesday-Thursday
We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance
We're an equal opportunity employer and are keen to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London
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