Data Engineer
Hybrid: Remote/Bristol
Salary: £70,000 - £75,000
About Us
Duel is a SaaS company on a mission to make Brand Advocacy the industry standard playbook for building brilliant retail brands. Founded by world record breaking adventurer Paul Archer and viral games developer Naio Tsarouchis, we exist to show there’s a better way to build businesses, proving that caring for people builds brand, which builds long term and exponential profit returns.
The Duel Brand Advocacy Platform allows enterprise brands to scale how they manage their relationships with thousands of advocates, customers, creators and brand ambassadors. We’re proud that brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch, Charlotte Tilbury, Spanx, and Victoria’s Secret are doing just that. The Duel team comprises psychologists, brand experts, and community builders.
The Role
We are implementing a full-scale data warehouse using Snowflake and Kafka. We’re hiring a dedicated Data Engineer to own and maintain this system.
As our first dedicated Data Engineer, you will help shape how data is structured, accessed, and used at Duel. You'll work across multiple functions, ensuring that data is available and meaningful to engineers, product managers, and customer success teams.
We’re growing fast but determined to retain the culture and agility of a small engineering team. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-moving, high-impact environment, where they can drive change and own how data is leveraged across the company.
This role is about more than just technical capability. The right person will be a problem solver, a strong communicator, and an active contributor to a growing team.
We’re Looking for Someone Who Will…
1. Take full ownership of the data warehouse infrastructure, including Snowflake and Kafka.
2. Maintain, optimise, and extend our platform to integrate new data sources.
3. Ensure performance, security, and cost efficiency as data volume grows.
4. Work with engineering teams to ensure data is modeled correctly for business intelligence.
5. Support the future integration of AI by ensuring that data is clean and structured for machine learning.
6. Act as the bridge between engineering, data science, and customer success.
7. Work with product managers to ensure they have access to the right data for decision-making.
8. Support the company's self-serve data model.
9. Ensure data pipelines comply with UK and US data laws.
10. Implement governance best practices to ensure data accuracy and controlled access.
We’d love to hear from you if you...
1. Have 4+ years of experience in a data engineering role.
2. Can break down complex problems and drive solutions.
3. Enjoy working in cross-functional teams.
4. Thrive in an autonomous environment, taking ownership and making decisions independently.
5. Work iteratively, preferring to ship quickly and refine solutions.
6. Value creating systems that allow other teams to move faster.
7. Share work openly, documenting decisions and keeping stakeholders informed.
8. Are comfortable navigating uncertainty and helping shape solutions.
Technical Skills
1. You have experience with SQL, Python, Snowflake, and Kafka.
2. You have experience with databases such as MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
3. You have experience integrating with business intelligence tools.
4. You understand cloud data ecosystems such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
5. You have experience with infrastructure as code, using tools such as Terraform.
6. You have experience structuring data for AI and machine learning is a plus.
7. You enjoy building and maintaining data warehouse solutions.
8. You understand event-driven architectures and real-time data processing.
9. You have experience implementing and maintaining scalable data pipelines.
10. You have no issue working with structured or semi-structured data.
11. You are comfortable working with data engineering and scripting languages.
12. You have an awareness of TypeScript.
In-person and remote working balance
We have small HQ’s in Bristol & London with a growing team in our NYC office. Our approach to hybrid working is flexible, with priority given to candidates who can travel to the Bristol office.
Why Duel
We want to build a remarkable company with remarkable people and a remarkable culture. In a relaxed and flexible environment, the team is driven to making the business a success while enjoying what we do.
We have a growing benefits package, including:
* Flexible working hours.
* 32 days of Annual Leave.
* Options scheme for all full-time employees.
* Company MacBook to work from.
* £350 WFH Set-Up.
* Headspace Contributions.
* Personal Development budget and support.
* 2 additional days leave for volunteering.
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