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

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