{"id":2122678,"url":"https://alion.io/job/simmer-eats-lead-data-engineer","title":"Lead Data Engineer","company":{"id":4372486,"name":"Simmer Eats","domain":"simmereats.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/simmer-eats","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":null,"truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":108000,"max_usd":191000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":37},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Amazon Redshift","optional":false},{"name":"Dagster","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"dbt","optional":false},{"name":"Dimensional Modeling","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Google BigQuery","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Snowflake","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-26T08:16:08Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T08:16:08Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":34,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":34},"description":"Lead Data Engineer\nLondon | Hybrid, 1–3 days per week\nAbout Simm\ner\nSimmer is one of the UK’s fastest-growing consumer brands, built on a simple belief: healthy food should taste extraordinary.\nFounded by brothers Simmy and Jhai with just £10 of ingredients, we’ve grown into a profitable, bootstrapped business serving tens of thousands of customers across the UK and ranking as the 5th fastest-growing company in The Sunday Times 100.\nBut we still think we’re early.\nWe’re fully founder-led, with no private equity or corporate layers. The founders still run the business, set the standard and stay deeply involved in the work. That means decisions happen quickly, ownership is real and the people who join us have the opportunity to materially shape what Simmer becomes.\nBehind that growth is an increasingly complex business. We operate a weekly subscription model, customers can skip, pause, cancel and reactivate, and our data spans everything from acquisition and customer behaviour to revenue, margin, menu and operations.\nThat creates some genuinely interesting data problems.\nThe Role\nWe’re looking for a \nLead Data Engineer\n to take ownership of the foundations our data, reporting and future AI capabilities depend on.\nThis is an engineering role rather than an analytics role.\nYou’ll own the pipelines, models, definitions and infrastructure that sit underneath the numbers the business uses to make decisions.\nThere’s already a meaningful platform in place, built around Microsoft Fabric, a lakehouse and warehouse, dbt and our own BI application.\nWe’ve built quickly, and the next stage is about making that foundation more robust and scalable: simplifying where complexity has built up, strengthening pipelines, creating clearer metric definitions and introducing more engineering discipline around testing, orchestration, documentation and observability.\nThis isn’t a greenfield build.\nYou’ll inherit something real, understand it, improve it and decide what good should look like from here.\nWhat You’ll Own\nPipelines\n - build and maintain reliable ingestion from our source systems, with the monitoring and observability to know when something goes wrong.\nData modelling\n - own and develop our dbt layer across areas including revenue, margin, acquisition, LTV, customers, menu and operations.\nMetric definitions\n - work with Finance and commercial teams to create clear, consistent definitions for the metrics the business relies on.\nData quality\n - make sure data remains reliable as it moves through increasingly complex customer, commercial and operational journeys.\nEngineering discipline\n - improve testing, version control, CI, orchestration, alerting, documentation and lineage.\nCommercial problems\n - take ambiguous business questions, understand what actually sits behind them and turn them into robust, repeatable data solutions.\nData access\n - help make trusted, governed data easier for our BI tools, applications and increasingly AI tooling to use.\nNot every problem needs a platform rebuild.\nPart of the job is knowing what needs proper engineering, what needs simplifying and when the business simply needs a reliable answer quickly.\nThat balance is important to the original brief, which explicitly combines platform ownership with the ability to turn written business questions into defensible, repeatable answers at pace. Data Engineer_ Job Spec v4\nThe Problems You’ll Work On\nOur data is more complicated than a typical ecommerce business.\nA customer might subscribe, skip a week, change their plan, add additional products, pause, cancel and later reactivate. Transactions and refunds don't always happen at the same point in that journey.\nSo apparently simple questions can become interesting modelling problems.\nWhat is an active customer? When has someone actually churned? Which revenue belongs to which period? How should customer value be measured over time?\nThose definitions matter because they ultimately influence decisions across Finance, Growth and Operations.\nYou'll work closely with the people making those decisions to understand the commercial reality, model it properly and build foundations that remain useful as the business changes.\nThis preserves the genuinely interesting part of Ed's original brief — the interaction between subscription, customer, order and settlement states — without publishing the detailed internal mechanics. Data Engineer_ Job Spec v4\nWhat We’re Looking For\nWe’re looking for an engineer who understands the business problem behind the engineering.\nYou don’t need to have worked in food, DTC or subscriptions before.\nYou do need to have built and run real data systems in production and be comfortable taking significant technical ownership and making good decisions independently.\nYou’ll likely have:\nStrong SQL and hands-on dbt experience\nStrong Python for ingestion, transformation and automation\nProduction experience with a cloud data platform such as Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Redshift or Synapse\nExperience building and maintaining data pipelines and API-based ingestion\nStrong understanding of dimensional modelling\nExperience with orchestration such as Airflow, Dagster or Fabric pipelines\nGit, code review, testing and CI as normal engineering practice\nExperience thinking seriously about data quality, reliability and observability\nMicrosoft Fabric experience is useful, but it isn’t essential. The underlying technical requirements are much broader than one particular platform. Data Engineer_ Job Spec v4\nMore importantly, you:\ncan take an ambiguous commercial problem and turn it into a clear technical solution\nwant to understand what a metric actually means before you model it\ncan explain technical decisions clearly to non-technical people\nare comfortable challenging a definition or approach when you think there’s a better answer\ncan inherit something imperfect and improve it rather than needing to rebuild everything\ncare about making systems simple, reliable and maintainable\nknow when to engineer for scale and when to keep the solution simple\nare comfortable making technical decisions independently\nWe care more about the depth of problems you’ve owned than the size of the engineering team you’ve worked in.\nThe Stack\nOur data platform is built around:\nMicrosoft Fabric → Lakehouse → dbt → Warehouse → our own BI application\nIt brings together data from our custom commerce platform and the different systems used across the business.\nOur commerce model is deliberately custom because a weekly meal subscription behaves differently from traditional ecommerce. That means there’s meaningful engineering work here rather than simply connecting a standard commerce platform to an off-the-shelf reporting tool. \nWhy Simmer?\nThis is an opportunity to take meaningful technical ownership inside a fast-growing consumer business.\nYou won’t be one of a large team of data engineers responsible for a small part of the stack.\nYou’ll have real influence over how data enters the business, how it’s modelled, how important metrics are defined and how the platform develops from here.\nThere’s already enough infrastructure and complexity for the work to be interesting, but still plenty to improve and build.\nAnd because the team is lean, you’ll work directly with the people using what you build across Finance, Growth, Operations and the wider commercial team.\nYou’ll see the connection between an engineering decision you make and how the business operates.\nIf you’re a strong data engineer who wants broader ownership, interesting commercial problems and the opportunity to build something properly, we’d like to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7647,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commerce"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T00:08:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":22,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":0.6,"p_active":0.663,"p_room":0.55,"age_days":33,"expected_fill_days":28,"reasons":["seen:33","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/simmer-eats-lead-data-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/simmer-eats-lead-data-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T04:33:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6230,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4372486},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4372486"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fsimmer-eats-lead-data-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fsimmer-eats-lead-data-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fsimmer-eats-lead-data-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/simmer-eats-lead-data-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fsimmer-eats-lead-data-engineer"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2122678}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"simmereats.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2122678},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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