Data Engineer - Remote UK

Oliver Bernard
London
8 months ago
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£80,000 – £120,000 + Equity

About Them
We have partnered with a UK-based remote startup is building an AI-first platform to transform workforce management from the ground up. They're moving quickly to solve meaningful problems in the future of work, with early technical hires playing a pivotal role alongside leadership in shaping the core product.

Responsibilities
Embed with their customers, identifying high-impact opportunities.
Build robust pipelines to ingest data from various clients.
Define and store all the raw data in their warehouse.
Implement the mechanisms for our application and AI models to query this data efficiently.
Emphasise data quality.
Work closely with a Forward-Deployed Engineer to understand data needs for new features.

About you
Fluency in SQL and experience building ETL / ELT pipelines that have handled substantial data.
Knowledge of Python, Airbyte/Fivetran, or Kafka, to move and transform data reliably.
Experience with modern data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or even Postgres).
Comfortable writing code for data tasks.
Enjoy liaising with the product team to understand how data powers features and insights.
Excellent communication skills, interfacing with clients and wider stakeholders.

Why Join Them
Work with top engineers and AI researchers from leading tech firms and academic institutions.
Backed by leading investors and operating in a high-growth market with tangible business impact.

£80-120k base salary + Equity.

If this is of interest, please apply or email at

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