Lead Data Engineer
Key Points
- Lead Data Engineer position
- Property Managing AI Solution – Start Up
- For a Technical Leader who enjoys building products with a passion for AI innovation
- Career path into a CTO role
About The Company
- Seed funded
- AI solution for Property Management sector
- End to end automation removing all administrative tasks for commercial and residential property businesses
- London HQ
About the Role
- Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support AI and product systems.
- Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
- Develop and manage batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Build and optimize systems for vector search, retrieval, and ML data pipelines.
- Ensure data reliability, security, and governance across the platform.
- Collaborate with AI and backend engineering teams to support training, inference, and product features.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality frameworks.
About the Candidate
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering or backend engineering roles.
- Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and distributed data systems.
- Experience working with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred, but MySQL or similar is acceptable).
- Experience with NoSQL databases.
- Experience with vector databases used in modern AI systems.
- Strong programming experience in Python
- Experience within the following technologies is desirable - Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Elasticsearch / Open Search, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Pandas, Polars
About the Package
- £100k - £110k on the base