Lead Data Engineer — AI Startup, London | £130k+ | Equity | London | 4 days onsite
We're an early-stage, well-backed AI startup building an automation platform for a large, traditionally slow-moving UK industry. Live with pilot customers, strong early traction, scaling hard toward revenue this year.
We're hiring our first Lead Data Engineer. You'll own the data architecture from the ground up: real-time pipelines, analytics infra, and the vector/ML data workflows that power our AI product. This isn't maintaining someone else's system, you're building it.
What you'll be doing
- Architecting and building the data pipelines and infrastructure behind our AI product
- Designing ingestion, transformation and storage for both operational and AI workloads
- Building and optimising vector search and ML data pipelines
- Setting the data standards, tooling and hiring bar as the first data hire
- Working directly with the founders, not three layers removed from decisions
What you'll bring
- 7-10 years in data engineering, with real ownership of architecture decisions, not just execution
- Strong Python, plus experience with tools like Spark, Airflow, Kafka
- Comfortable across relational (Postgres), NoSQL, and vector databases (Qdrant, Milvus, pgvector, or similar)
- A background that includes time at a larger, more established tech company, ideally followed by a move into an early-stage or high-growth startup
- You like building things from nothing more than you like maintaining what already exists
Why this one's worth a look
- Genuinely the first data hire, no legacy mess to untangle
- Direct access to founders and real influence over the roadmap
- Meaningful equity in a company backed by serious investors
- A market that's ripe for disruption and a product that's already landing with customers
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Lead Data Engineer in London employer: trg.
As a Lead Data Engineer at our innovative AI startup in London, you'll be at the forefront of building cutting-edge data architecture from scratch, with direct access to the founders and significant influence over the product roadmap. We foster a dynamic work culture that values creativity and ownership, offering meaningful equity and the opportunity to shape the future of a disruptive technology in a rapidly evolving market. Join us for a rewarding career where your contributions will directly impact our success and growth.
