Lead Data Engineer

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.

• 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

• 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.