Location: UK or Portugal

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Permanent

About YLD:

Our goal is to help our clients keep moving forward. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay ahead of the competition, and we know our success only happens when they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making YLD a place where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done.

About the role:

As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects.

About you:

A YLD Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've built pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context.

You have a real passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will look like this:

• Delivering data work on client engagements: pipelines, transformation layers, models, and the infrastructure around them
• Adapting to different client contexts, legacy warehouse migrations, greenfield lakehouses, struggling transformation layers that need rescuing
• Defining and evolving our internal standards for data work: testing, documentation, project structure, code review
• Mentoring and growing data engineers across the company
• Showing up for client team moments (internal speakers, learning sessions, social events) to build strong working relationships.
• Contributing to proposals and helping shape engagements during the sales process
• Representing YLD externally through writing, speaking, and contributing to the wider data community.

You’ll have the following skills and experience:

• SQL as engineering: You write SQL that's reviewable, testable, and performs at scale. You understand query planning, engine quirks, and how materialisation choices affect cost and performance
• Python for data: You write typed, testable Python for pipelines and tooling. You've built and maintained production data systems, not just notebooks
• Data modelling: You've made deliberate choices between dimensional, Data Vault, normalised, and denormalised designs. You can explain those trade-offs in terms of flexibility, query performance, and maintainability
• Transformation architecture: You design transformations that are idempotent, incremental, and dependency-aware. You think in DAGs, not scripts
• Pipeline design: You understand batch, streaming, and micro-batch trade-offs. You consider latency, complexity, cost, and reprocessability. And choose the right approach for the problem
• Data testing: You write tests as code, schema contracts, assertions, and transformation logic. You know what to catch at build time vs. defer to observability
• Data observability: You treat data reliability like site reliability. Measurable indicators, alerting, incident response, and root cause analysis
• CI/CD for data: You version, test, and deploy pipelines like software. Environment promotion, rollback strategies, and infrastructure as code for reproducible environments
• Data governance: You've implemented lineage, cataloguing, sensitive data classification, or access control. Not just built pipelines, but made them auditable and secure
• Cost-conscious: You've optimised warehouse spend, storage strategies, or job efficiency. You treat compute as a resource to manage, not ignore
• Platform fluency: You've worked across the modern stack. Orchestration (Airflow, Dagster), warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks), ingestion (Fivetran, Airbyte, custom), and transformation (dbt, Spark)
• Cross-functional fluency: You translate engineering constraints into business terms and negotiate realistic commitments

You’ll be:

• Self-motivated and proactive
• Comfortable with ambiguity, experimentation, and iteration
• Collaborative by default. You work well in teams and across teams
• Analytical and detail-oriented in your approach to problems
• Comfortable context-switching across clients, stacks, and problem types
• Willing to shape engagements, not just deliver them: contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships
• Active in the wider data community: writing, speaking, or open-source contribution
• Genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Benefits you'll get:

• Company Private Health care
• Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months
• Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only)
• 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays)
• £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences
• £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware
• Wellbeing & Performance Support via Oli including Therapy and Coaching
• Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results)
• Company laptop
• Generous referral schemes

Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this:

• 1st Interview with someone from the Talent team (30-45 Minutes)
• Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (90 Minutes)
• Call with the Head of Engineering (60 Minutes)

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We live and breathe our values, and know you will too:

• Growing every day
• Including everyone
• Relationships built on honesty and ethics
• Inspiring solutions
• Winning together

We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in all its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for all employees.

This is a 6-month contractor role, with the potential to extend on a month-to-month basis. This role is fully remote, however your available working hours must overlap with London 9am - 6pm or New York 9am - 6pm.

About Us

Reachdesk is the first truly end-to-end SaaS global gifting and swag platform, helping B2B companies create meaningful connections with prospects, customers, and employees while driving measurable ROI.

We believe gifting is more than just a transaction. It is about building genuine human connections that fuel business growth. Whether engaging prospects, celebrating customers, or recognising employees, our platform makes it easy to deliver personalised gifts, branded swag, and memorable events and brand experiences at scale through automated sourcing, storage, and global delivery.

Trusted by many of the most recognised names in technology and SaaS, Reachdesk integrates seamlessly with marketing, sales, and HR tech stacks and is powered by a global team with hubs in New York, London, and Lisbon.

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced contractor to support Reachdesk on a range of customs compliance projects across our global operations.

This is a hands-on, high-impact contract role for someone who can quickly assess risk, improve processes, work across multiple stakeholders, and help us strengthen the way we manage customs and cross-border trade compliance in practice. You will partner closely with teams across Operations, Logistics, Marketplace, Product, Legal, and Finance, as well as external brokers, carriers, and warehouse partners.

This role is best suited to someone who is practical, detail-oriented, commercially aware, and comfortable working independently in a fast-moving international environment.

What You’ll Do

Customs Compliance Projects

• Support Reachdesk’s customs compliance work across import/export activity, customs documentation, product classification, valuation, country of origin, duties, and related operational controls.

• Review existing customs processes and help design, improve, and document scalable compliance procedures.

• Partner with internal teams and external logistics providers, customs brokers, carriers, and 3PLs to support compliant shipment flows and customs clearance.

• Help investigate and resolve customs issues such as holds, clearance delays, documentation gaps, or shipment exceptions.

• Assist with compliance for restricted items, sanctions-related considerations, and broader cross-border trade requirements where relevant.

• Identify compliance risks within current and proposed operating models, and recommend practical mitigations.

Cross-Functional Support

• Work closely with Operations, Logistics, Marketplace, Product, Legal, and Finance to embed customs compliance into day-to-day processes and project decisions.

• Support project work connected to new shipping lanes, markets, warehouse flows, sourcing models, or operational changes.

• Help create and maintain internal documentation, including SOPs, guidance notes, controls, process maps, and audit-ready records.

• Provide clear, practical guidance to internal stakeholders on customs-related requirements and best practices.

Data, Controls, and Documentation

• Support the maintenance and improvement of key customs-related data, including product classifications, origin information, shipment documentation standards, and related compliance records.

• Help assess whether tools, automation, or systems changes could improve customs compliance workflows and reporting.

• Assist with audit preparation, evidence gathering, remediation tracking, and general compliance project management where needed.

About You

• Significant experience in customs compliance, global trade compliance, import/export compliance, or a closely related cross-border trade role.

• Strong working knowledge of customs requirements, import/export controls, HS classification, valuation, duties, origin, and international shipment documentation.

• Experience working with customs brokers, freight forwarders, carriers, 3PLs, or other logistics partners.

• Comfortable operating in a project-based role where priorities may evolve and where you are expected to work independently.

• Able to spot risks, solve problems pragmatically, and balance compliance requirements with commercial and operational realities.

• Strong documentation and process-design skills, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear and workable procedures.

• Confident working cross-functionally with legal, finance, operations, product, and external partners.

• Experience in e-commerce, logistics, supply chain, fulfilment, or other high-volume cross-border environments is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with VAT or indirect tax concepts is helpful, but this role is primarily focused on customs compliance projects.

Working Arrangement

• 6-month contractor engagement, with the potential to extend on a month-to-month basis.

• Fully remote.

• Open globally, provided you can reliably overlap with London or New York working hours.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary
• A super-friendly, collaborative working culture populated by fun and dedicated people

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Reachdesk. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability status, or any other protected characteristic.

We process personal information submitted as part of your application in accordance with the Reachdesk Candidate Privacy Notice. Please review it here.

About Easyship:

Easyship is one of the world’s leading multi-carrier shipping software, built to make global eCommerce borderless. Since 2014, we’ve been on a mission to democratize logistics by removing the "black box" of international shipping costs and complexities. Trusted by over 100,000 brands, our platform provides a single "mission control" for global trade, offering access to 550+ courier services across 200+ destinations.

We are an award-winning, global team (Forbes 30 Under 30, TechInAsia’s Best Startup) with offices in London, New York, Hong Kong, and beyond. We’re growing fast, we value transparency, and we genuinely enjoy building the infrastructure that powers modern commerce. If you're ready to solve complex problems at scale, we’d love to have you join us.

Who We’re Looking For:

Easyship is a shipping technology platform that connects sellers and marketplaces to couriers. Beyond that, we also build and execute customized end-to-end shipping solutions for clients worldwide. These Logistics solutions can combine a number of partners and services, from global freight forwarding services to last-mile delivery.
We’re looking for an experienced project manager with good knowledge of ecommerce shipping, warehousing & fulfilment to oversee the delivery of these projects for our clients. Own part of the Easyship product by defining solutions in line with the product vision and strategy, coordinating with the design and engineering teams, in order to constantly create value for our users.

What would be you be responsible for:

• Contributing to defining and shaping the product roadmap for Easyship’s warehouse software, managing priorities from discovery to release and post-release.
• Supporting roadmaps that maximize business opportunities and align with Easyship's strategic goals.
• Leveraging ROI assessment methodologies to prioritize your roadmap.
• Managing delivery of features from idea to release, and measuring their success.
• Working collaboratively with global teams in various functional areas such as design, data analytics, engineering, logistics, warehouse operations and support to deliver quality products.
• Gaining a deep understanding of our warehouse operations, their needs, and improve efficiency ultimately supporting profitability outcomes.
• Staying informed about market dynamics and competitor activities to help Easyship maintain a competitive edge.

You Might Be a Good Fit If…

• You have 4+ years of Product Management experience, preferably in a supply chain/logistics heavy environment.
• You have understanding and experience with warehouse operations and shipping logistics.
• You have experience working in a metrics-driven environment.
• You have demonstrated ability to identify and prioritize between different opportunities, with a rationale for these decisions.
• A “Data-First” approach and strong analytical skills.
• You are skilled in influencing and collaborating with distributed global teams.
• You have excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills.
• You possess resourcefulness, resilience, self-motivation, and ability to thrive in an entrepreneurial, team-based environment with high expectations.

If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What we bring to the table as an employer:

• Generous remuneration and stock units
• We reimburse gym and wellness expenses so you can invest in your health
• The freedom to ‘Work from Anywhere’ for 4 weeks in a year
• Generous vacation policy, plus duvet days and mental health days to truly recharge

How we value inclusion in our recruitment practices:

Easyship is an equal opportunity employer. We make all employment decisions—recruiting, hiring, pay, benefits, training, promotion, leave, and separation—based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, veteran or military status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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