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Anywhere · Remote · 7-10 Yrs · 2 days ago
Software Development · 201 to 500 Employees · London, United Kingdom
Hiring: Engineering
What employees say
+ Full-time remote opportunity, good team overall.
− You will be employed until the Client has you on the project.
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Interview experience · Senior Frontend Software Engineer
A massive waste of time—disorganised pipeline and fake reviews Do not waste your time with Smart Working Solutions. Their interview process is completely broken and disrespectful of candidates' time. It starts with a ru
Average difficulty · India · 10 reports
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Overview
Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support AI and product systems.
- Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
- Develop and manage batch and real-time data pipelines.
- Build and optimise systems for vector search, retrieval and machine learning data pipelines.
- Ensure data reliability, security and governance across the platform.
- Collaborate with AI and backend engineering teams to support training, inference and product features.
- Implement monitoring, observability and data quality frameworks.
- Optimise the performance of large-scale datasets and query systems.
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and long-term data strategy.
- Act as the founding data hire, defining culture, standards and the hiring bar for the data function as it scales.
- Partner directly with founders and product leadership to translate data capabilities into product decisions.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional experience, with the majority of that experience in dedicated data engineering roles.
- Strong experience designing and building data pipelines and distributed data systems.
- Strong programming experience in Python.
- Demonstrated ability to make and justify architectural decisions, rather than only implementing them.
- Strong understanding of data processing performance and optimisation.
- Familiarity with stream processing and event-driven architectures.
- We 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. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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Last updated 19 September 2026
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