About the job

Lead Data Engineer / Well-Funded AI Startup / London

A high-growth AI startup is looking for an exceptional Lead Data Engineer to build its data platform from the ground up.

You'll architect distributed pipelines, real-time infrastructure and AI data systems while making the key technical decisions that shape the platform’s future.

What’s in it for you?

• Join a heavily backed AI startup at a major inflection point

• Own the data architecture and strategy from day one

• Solve complex problems across distributed systems and AI infrastructure

• Work alongside exceptional engineers, AI specialists and founders

• Build and eventually lead the data engineering function

• Become a key technical leader with meaningful equity and long-term upside

What they’re looking for:

• 6+ years in Data Engineering or Backend Engineering

• Strong academic background in a STEM discipline

• Expert Python and strong data engineering fundamentals

• Deep experience with distributed pipelines and modern data architectures

• Strong SQL and production database experience

• Someone who genuinely enjoys solving hard technical problems

Bonus: Spark, Kafka, Airflow, vector databases, AI/ML infrastructure or AWS/GCP/Azure.

If you want maximum ownership, serious technical challenges and the chance to build something from zero, this could be the one.

Lead Data Engineer / Well-Funded AI Startup / London