AWS Senior Data Engineer - Remote in London

Hybrid- London, UKProduct Management & Engineering – Product Engineering /Full-time /HybridWho We AreAt Firstup, our mission is to improve the employee experience at every moment that matters, large and small. As the world's first intelligent communication platform, Firstup meaningfully engages employees at every moment from hire to retire, and delivers engagement insights to help companies support, promote and retain their talent. Now we need your help. The Senior Data Engineer will design and build reliable data solutions that translate complex product and business logic into scalable, well-tested data models and pipelines. This role requires deep expertise in SQL, query acceleration, and applying GenAI to both engineering workflows and data/analytics interfaces. They will partner across engineering, analytics, and business teams, contribute to shared codebases, improve data quality and observability, and help evolve the data architecture. ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, warehouse models, and analytics solutions, balancing data quality, business value, and speed. Build and maintain natural language interfaces to data and analytics, applying GenAI/LLM techniques to make data more accessible across the business. Use GenAI coding tools and practices in daily development to improve code quality, testing, and delivery speed. Continuously evaluate new technologies that could improve and scale the team's data platform and technology stack. Establish and follow standards for SQL development, data modeling, testing, documentation, code reviews, and production support. Support production data pipelines through on-call rotation and incident response, partnering with engineering, analytics, and business teams. Minimum QualificationsBachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience.8+ years building reliable, high-performance, large-scale distributed systems, with an emphasis on streaming and data pipelines. Experience building natural language interfaces over data warehouses, including applying GenAI/LLM techniques to data and analytics. Enterprise-level experience with at least one large-scale analytical data warehouse or query engine: Expertise writing, optimizing, and analyzing SQL.Hands-on experience building and operating distributed data platforms on AWS or GCP.Experience scaling data modeling and warehousing. Proficiency in python. Familiarity with the BI tool Metabase. Proficiency in Ruby on Rails, React, or other adjacent languages. We offer an excellent PTO program, great health benefits, a casual and friendly environment, remote work, and a leadership team who truly believes in your growth – both personally and professionally. Firstup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants for employment and to all employees, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state or local laws.#LI-TM1#LI-RemoteWe may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.