Application Deadline: 19 June 2026
Department: Tech - Engineering
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Zinc - London
Compensation: £60,000 - £65,000 / year
We're looking for a Data Engineer to join our Technology team. Our data warehouse infrastructure is growing fast, and we need someone to own the pipelines that power our ops team.
This is a pure engineering role. You'll be building and maintaining the systems that move, transform, and serve data across the business. If you want to work on analytics or BI, this isn't the role for you. If you want to build robust pipelines and warehouse infrastructure at a fast-moving, AI-native SaaS company, read on.
You'll thrive here if you're self-directed, enjoy owning a problem end-to-end, and can communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders. We're a small team and you'll have real impact from day one.
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Airbyte• Manage and optimise our PostgreSQL data warehouse• Write and optimise SQL for internal ops team consumption• Work with AWS Lambda and S3 for pipeline orchestration• Translate business requirements into data pipeline solutions• Support infrastructure reliability across the tech stack
Essential:• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL skills• Experience with Airbyte or a similar ETL/ELT tool (e.g. Fivetran, Stitch)• AWS experience — Lambda and S3 at minimum• Git / version control• 2–3 years in a data engineering role, ideally at a SaaS or tech company
Desirable:• MongoDB experience (our upstream source data)• dbt for data transformation• Python scripting• Experience at a scaling start-up
Zinc offers a chance to work on a product that brings a fresh perspective on data ownership in hiring
At Zinc, we believe that background checks should be instant, easy, and delightful. Yes, you read that right.
Traditional background checking providers are slow, manual, and error-prone — Zinc’s here to change that.
Here’s how it works:
Step one: Select your checks
With Zinc you get exactly the checks you want, and no extras you don’t. Make your own templates and re-use them, or use our pre-built packages to align with any regulatory check requirements.
Zinc offers global checks in over 190 countries, including:
Credit checks
Address verification
Reference checks
Qualification checks
For a full list, visit https://zincwork.com/checks.
Step two: Tell Zinc who you’re checking
Enter your candidate or employee’s name and email address, then click “Request checks.”
The rest is easy: Candidates use our mobile-friendly platform to submit any required information, referee names, and additional documents. We’ll even chase references for you.
Here’s what Becca Covill, HR Operations Specialist at Jensten, said about Zinc references:
“When we’ve used different providers, there was a lot of manual intervention required. But with Zinc, we’ve been able to put them in, click a button, and it just runs.”
To stay in the loop, just visit your Zinc dashboard and get at-a-glance updates.
Learn more about Zinc’s commitment to candidate experience here: https://zincwork.com/candidates
Step three: Get results, fast
With direct HMRC integrations and automated workflows, Zinc delivers results fast. Like, really fast.
“Obviously I recommend Zinc, but an IDSP will change your life overnight. It had instant results.” — Zander Loftus, Recruitment Manager, Hexagon Care
View results directly in the Zinc platform, or get them delivered to your ATS or HRIS. Zinc integrates with platforms like Workday, Pinpoint, Greenhouse, and more. For a full list of our available integrations, visit https://zincwork.com/integrations.
