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Senior Data Engineer | Tech for Good Start-up | Hybrid (London) | Up to £90k + equity

The Company

Our client is a fast-growing tech-for-good start-up on a mission to harness technology for positive social and environmental impact. Backed by purpose-driven investors, they build scalable data and AI solutions that drive change in areas such as climate resilience, biodiversity, and social equity. You’ll join a passionate, agile team focused on delivering measurable impact through innovation and data.

• Join an early-stage, mission-driven environment where what you build matters
• Opportunity to help define the data platform architecture from the ground up
• Hybrid & flexible working to support balance and creativity
• Competitive salary + equity in the company

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer who can design, deliver, and scale robust data infrastructure that powers our social and environmental analytics. You’ll implement modern data stacks with a strong focus on observability, quality, and cost-efficiency.

• Build and operate data pipelines and warehouses using tools such as BigQuery, PostgreSQL, and cloud-storage for raw data ingestion
• Use orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow) and infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform) to manage workflows and deployments
• Implement layered data architecture (raw, refined, trusted layers) to ensure data is clean, versioned, and usable by downstream ML / analytical teams
• Collaborate with data scientists, product, domain experts to integrate diverse data sources (IoT, satellite / remote sensing, open and proprietary datasets)
• Establish observability, data lineage, governance, and security standards
• Contribute to CI/CD practices and help ensure reliability, monitoring, and cost control

Your Experience

You’re a seasoned engineer with strong technical judgement and a passion for tech-for-good impact.

• 4+ years in data engineering or backend engineering roles
• Excellent proficiency in Python, SQL, and working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL
• Experience with cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and cloud-native services
• Hands-on with orchestration (e.g. Airflow), data transformation frameworks (DBT or similar)
• Experience building, maintaining, or deploying layered/medallion-style architectures (raw / transformed / curated/trusted data layers)
• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (Terraform or equivalent), CI/CD, and monitoring / observability
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, cross-functional team, collaborating closely with non-technical domain experts

Please click apply if you feel you\'d be a good fit for this role!

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Financial Services
• Staffing and Recruiting