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title: 'Senior Data Engineer at Quantum'
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# Senior Data Engineer at Quantum

- **Company:** Quantum
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quantum/4b88dda0-9861-42ec-88f9-ef1d1e7727a4

## Job description

Our Company At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.

Our Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions.

We drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale.

With in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally.

## The Role

Our Technology team is growing and we'd love you to grow with us. We're looking for a skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to help design and build a robust, scalable, and high-performance real-time data backbone.

In this role, you'll take a leading hand in the design, development, and implementation of a real-time data backbone. Your focus will be on building and maintaining scalable, high-performance data pipelines that support real-time data processing and analytics. You'll work closely with teams across the business to ensure our infrastructure meets growing data needs, leveraging modern technologies for efficient data ingestion, storage, and analysis.

## Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure that power real-time analytics and reporting.
- Take ownership of our semantic layer using Cube.js, enabling reliable, self-serve analytics across the organisation.
- Integrate and unify data from Salesforce, CDP, and SCV sources, ensuring clean, consistent data flow across marketing and customer data platforms.
- Lead the development of transformation workflows using dbt, with a strong emphasis on testing, documentation, and data quality.
- Architect and manage pipeline orchestration via Apache Airflow, ensuring reliability and observability at every stage.
- Monitor and optimise pipeline performance for low-latency, high-throughput use cases.
- Collaborate closely with Data Architect, marketing analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure data infrastructure directly supports business objectives.
- Mentor and support more junior engineers, helping to raise the bar across the team.

## About You

- Significant hands-on experience in data engineering, with a proven track record of leading and delivering complex data initiatives end to end.
- Great understanding of semantic layers such as Cube.js you've built and maintained semantic layers and understand pre-aggregations, caching strategies, and multi-tenancy.
- Strong experience integrating Salesforce Marketing Cloud, CDP, and Single Customer View (SCV) data you understand the nuances of customer and marketing data at scale.
- Expert-level SQL and proven experience building robust transformation pipelines with dbt.
- Solid experience orchestrating workflows with Apache Airflow in production environments.
- Comfortable working across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) for data ingestion, storage, and processing.
- Proficiency in Python or a similar language for pipeline development and automation.
- Strong data modelling instincts you think carefully about how data is structured, named, and consumed downstream.
- You're as comfortable whiteboarding architecture with engineers as you are explaining data concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Calm and focused in a fast-moving environment you can prioritise well and bring others along with you.
- Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
- You lead by example, care about the team's success, and leave things better than you found them.

## What You’ll Get

- Private Health Care (Bupa)
- Hybrid Working (3 days in office)
- Travel Insurance
- Competitive Base Salary
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Paid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)
- Market-Leading Training Programme
- Recognition & Reward Scheme
- Annual Company Conference
- Regular Happy Hours & Team Lunches
- Free Coffee, Drinks & Snacks

What’s the next step?

Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them.

If you like the sound of what we're all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact, please apply or contact us at careers@quantum.media.

## About Quantum

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Quantum connects global brands with high-intent consumers through data-driven affiliate marketing, optimizing campaigns for performance and scalability.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: London, England, United Kingdom
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Affiliate marketing, digital performance marketing, comparison services
- **Target customers**: B2B (global brands in regulated and high-growth sectors), B2C (high-intent consumers)
- **Mission statement**: "To connect global brands with consumers, helping them make smarter and faster buying decisions."

## Products & Services
- **Data-Driven Affiliate Marketing**: Full-service affiliate campaigns with in-house tech, real-time optimization, and compliance-first approach.
- **Paid Advertising**: Targeted ads across search engines and social media to reach users actively seeking engaging experiences.
- **CRM Managed Promotions**: Personalized CRM strategies to nurture player/consumer relationships and maximize loyalty.
- **Data Intelligence**: Analysis of consumer behavior and campaign performance to refine marketing strategies.
- **Acquisition & Engagement/Retention**: Multi-channel marketing to acquire and retain high-intent users.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: 60+ employees (81 per Built In, 86 per LeadIQ); 100+ active partnerships; 10+ years in business
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly available (no funding rounds disclosed)
- **Growth Signals**: Recent rebrand/relaunch ("The Evolution"), launch of a graduate scheme with nine new hires, continuous hiring across data, marketing, product, and engineering teams.

## Competitive Advantages
- **In-house technology stack** with full-stack analytics and proprietary platforms for campaign management.
- **Compliance-first mindset** enabling operation in regulated sectors (e.g., gambling, financial services).
- **Data-driven performance model** that measures, optimizes, and scales campaigns in real time.
- **Deep industry insight** and 10+ years of experience in affiliate marketing.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling the technology platform and expanding the engineering team (e.g., hiring Senior Full Stack Engineer).
- Strengthening the brand via a comprehensive rebrand and relaunch ("Welcome To The Evolution").
- Growing the graduate programme and investing in talent development.
- Expanding into new high-growth sectors and geographies.

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid work model**: 3 days in-office (Tuesday–Thursday) at The Screenworks in Islington, London; flexible remote on remaining days.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, company bonus scheme, private healthcare (Bupa), market-leading training programme, paid AI subscriptions (Claude/ChatGPT/Gemini), annual company conference, regular happy hours & team lunches, parental leave, recognition & reward scheme.
- **Culture**: Values-driven (Build Together, Go All In, Be Brave, Push the Limits, Embrace Change); emphasis on diversity, equity, and inclusion; flat hierarchy with shared ownership; high-performance environment with collaboration and continuous learning.
- **Engineering culture**: Growing tech team, modern stack, focus on building and scaling a platform for global reach.

## Sources
1. [quantum.media](https://www.quantum.media/)
2. [quantum.media/careers](https://www.quantum.media/careers)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/quantum-quantummedia)
4. [builtin.com (job posting)](https://builtin.com/job/senior-full-stack-engineer/8706456)
5. [leadiq.com](https://leadiq.com/c/quantum/615dc1d0990e636b3e5fba13/employee-directory)

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