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Senior Analytics Engineer

Lula|Posted 16 hours ago

Skills and experience

Role:Data engineer
Other roles:Data analyst, Business intelligence engineer
Experience in role:5+ years
Language proficiency:English
Must-have skills:
    dbt
    SQL
    Snowflake
Nice-to-have skills:
    Terraform
    Apache Airflow

Location and salary

Remote policy:Hybrid
Location of job:City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Visa requirements:Authorised to work in South Africa With status of citizen/passport holder or permanent resident
Visa sponsorship:Unable to sponsor visa
Employment type:Permanent

Role description

At Lula, we're revolutionizing fintech for SMEs by delivering instant funding and all-in-one business banking solutions. We're seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our data team as a technical leader, where you'll build a reliable, governed, and high-impact dbt analytics layer. You'll be at the heart of transforming raw data from multiple sources into consistent, consumption-ready formats that power predictive and prescriptive modeling for our innovative products. As a key member of our data team, you'll design and own the end-to-end analytics layer while establishing robust data governance standards including data tests, quality checks, and semantic layers. You'll define and enforce best practices for dbt and source control workflows, translate complex business challenges into clear metrics and models, and partner closely with stakeholders to align data delivery with strategic objectives. Additionally, you'll play a crucial mentorship role, coaching intermediate engineers and actively shaping the team's technical roadmap. We're looking for someone with 5+ years in Analytics/Data Engineering who brings expertise in dbt, advanced SQL, and modern cloud warehouses like Snowflake or BigQuery. Our culture code emphasizes embracing curiosity, winning as one team, being driven by purpose, and executing with ambition. You'll thrive here if you have a track record of delivering high-impact, business-aligned data solutions, experience with BI tool administration and semantic layer design, and a passion for the FinTech space where you can help SMEs manage their businesses better, faster, and simpler.

About Lula

201-500 employees

What we do

We’re Lula. We build innovative Fintech products with the aim to help every SME to succeed. Our innovative technology has made it simpler, faster, and more human to connect SMEs to funding solutions. We’ve also recently launched two business banking accounts that help SMEs manage their cash flow better and give them an all-in-one, all-digital business banking solution with faster access to funding than ever before.

Why Work For Us

We are a technology-focused company and strive to continue to be at the cutting edge. All our projects are greenfield, and we detest red tape!

Our Culture

We Embrace Curiosity- We continuously seek better ways to deliver value with a solutions-over-problems mindset. We win as One - We collaborate, build strong relationships and value diverse perspectives. We’re Driven by Purpose - We are passionate and committed to delivering the best products and services for SMEs. We Execute with Ambition - We set ambitious goals, embrace challenges, and deliver with focus and determination.

Our Engineering Processes

To get 'techy' we work on an agile basis, flexible but the focus is on proper design. Pragmatism and deliverable's are the goal.

Our Hiring Process

This is what you can expect when interviewing with us.

Our interview process has the following stages:

We have a 4 steps interview process.

  1. Initial Screening interview with the Talent Lead
  2. On online Technical Assessment
  3. A Technical Screening interview with our Head of Engineering
  4. A Final Interview with Senior Management

A bit more about the technical assessment:

We make use of Coderbyte for all our Technical Assessments.

The assessment typically consists of 2 challenges, a couple of multiple choice questions and a few open-ended questions.

During the process, you are likely to meet the following members of our team:

The Talent Lead, The Line Manager, Team members, and Senior Management

What will they be looking for?

During different parts of the interview process you will be asked different types of questions. Let’s break it down into three main categories of questions that may be asked, namely:

  1. Culture fit questions: Which are aimed at assessing the alignment of candidates to the company and team culture
  2. Technical questions: Which are questions specific to the role in question to assess a candidate's skills and abilities in relation to the role requirements
  3. Competency-based questions: These are questions that ask for real-life examples to test a candidate’s skill in a particular competency.

How to make a good first impression:

Make sure the interviewer sees how you’re a good fit for the role and the company as a whole.

How long does our interview process usually take, from the first call to the offer stage?

Roughly about 2 to 4 weeks

Perks at Lula

First Friday's - We like grabbing a drink together (alcoholic or not) the first Friday of every month
Team Building - We enjoy getting to know one another over team building events that happen once a quarter
Great co-working environment with access to sunroof terrace
Friend Referral - the best people know the best people, which is why we have a generous employee referral bounty
Social Clubs - Connect with likeminded fellow Lula's by becoming a member of one of our Social Clubs, ranging from our Hiking Club to our Wine Club.

Tech Stack

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
MailChimp
MailChimp
Zendesk
Zendesk
JIRA
JIRA

application and data

Python
Python
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
C#
C#
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure
ASP.NET
ASP.NET
MS SQL
MS SQL
.Net Core 2.0
.Net Core 2.0

dev ops

Selenium
Selenium
Bitbucket
Bitbucket

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