Lead Data & Platform Engineer

Story Terrace Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering agri-tech company is seeking a Senior Data & Platform Engineer to drive engineering excellence in data platforms. This role demands expertise in data engineering and MLOps within a fast-paced environment. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, preferably in AgTech or HealthTech, and be capable of designing and deploying production-grade applications. The role offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary of up to £90k per annum, along with a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Up to £90k salary

Hybrid working

Inclusive company culture

Lunch and snacks provided

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data platform engineering roles in fast-paced tech companies.
• Experience in AgTech, Healthtech, or Biotechnology.
• Strong expertise with MLOps frameworks like MLflow, DVC.

Responsibilities

• Architect robust, scalable data platforms for product outcomes.
• Build and deploy production-grade commercial applications.
• Collaborate with ML engineers to integrate MLOps pipelines.

Skills

Data engineering

MLOps frameworks

Cross-functional communication

Knowledge modelling

Tools

Snowflake

Python

Docker

Kafka

Job description

🚀 The Mission

At FLOX, we believe smarter farms lead to thriving chickens and healthier lives. Our mission is simple: healthier chickens benefit everyone. That’s why we built FLOX360, a system that uses Computer Vision, smart sensors, and real-time insights to transform poultry farming. By helping farmers improve welfare and efficiency, FLOX360 creates a win‑win for birds, farmers, the environment, and people everywhere. Today, we’re watching 60 million chickens a year.

We believe we are setting the standard for animal welfare and smart farming - and we’re just getting started.

🏠 The People

We’re a diverse team of engineers and entrepreneurs, representing over 13 nationalities and all walks of life – even a few vegetarians! We are brought together by a shared passion for meaningful impact. Our culture is grounded in values we live every day:

🧙🏽 Empathetic Artisan – We approach our work with care, artistry, and genuine empathy for each other and our users. We lead with positivity and passion.

💪🏼 Tenacious Innovator – Innovation drives us. We trust ourselves, keep learning, and uncover bold solutions that redefine what’s possible in poultry farming.

🧤 Hand in Glove – One mission, one team. We grow together with patience, trust, and transparency, amplifying each other’s strengths to revolutionise farming.

🏗️ Worth Building – Worth celebrating. We dedicate ourselves to work that matters, taking pride in creating disruptive solutions our users can’t live without.

This is an exciting moment of growth for FLOX – and we’re looking for ambitious, humble, and purpose‑driven people to join us in building a future of smarter farms, thriving chickens, and healthier lives.

🎒 The role

We are currently seeking a Senior Data & Platform Engineer to work directly under our Engineering Director in our office in London. We’re a Series A ready start‑up with plenty of room for progression and making direct impact for our customers.

This high‑impact role demands "best‑in‑class" data engineering and MLOps skills to build, maintain, and deploy the production‑grade commercial applications that power our AI and analytics platform. The ideal candidate will have experience navigating complex data challenges in analytics‑heavy industries like AgTech or HealthTech and is motivated to revolutionise the poultry sector through data science and robust platform architecture. Our product vision is to empower our customers with autonomous intelligence at speed and scale. This role is a key part of achieving this vision to convert data into actionable intelligence.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineering Excellence & Transformational Value: Drive engineering excellence by architecting robust, scalable data platforms that deliver measurable, transformational value to product outcomes in the AgTech space.
• Production‑Grade Application Deployment: Build, maintain, and deploy production‑grade commercial applications and data services that are highly available, reliable, and performant.
• Best‑in‑Class Data Engineering: Design and optimise sophisticated batch and streaming data pipelines within the Snowflake or similar Data Cloud, ensuring data integrity, quality, and accessibility for analytics and machine learning applications.
• MLOps Implementation & Application Engineering: Collaborate directly with machine learning engineers and production application engineers to integrate open source MLOps pipelines (CI/CD for ML) and deploy models seamlessly into production environments using specialised tools like MLflow, DVC and Feast.
• Advanced Data Modelling (Ontology & Knowledge Graphs): Lead the design and implementation of data ontologies and knowledge graphs using graph databases (e.g. Neo4j, Neptune) to model complex biological and operational data relationships for sophisticated AI insights.
• Data Platform Expertise & Optimisation: Lead our data engineering efforts on data platforms such as Snowflake, Data bricks or similar focusing on data modelling, and analytics workflows to deliver actionable intelligence to customers.

📚 Tech Stack

Data

• Data sources: PTZ Cameras, IoT sensors, customer derived data sets
• Terabyte scale data on edge and cloud
• On‑prem, cloud and edge compute

DevOps / MLOps / Software Development

• Python and FastAPI
• Kafka, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Docker; Kubernetes networking and service mesh; RKE2
• RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, MPEG‑DASH
• Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Thanos; ELK; Jaeger; custom exporters
• Jenkins, GitLab, Sonatype Nexus, Terraform, Ansible, Argo CD
• AWS (primary), with GCP/Azure exposure
• DVC, MLFlow, Airflow, Dagster, CVAT, Weights & Biases; data lakes/warehouse

🤝🏽 We would love to meet you if you have all or some of these requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data platform engineering roles within analytics‑heavy, fast‑paced tech/product companies.
• Experience in AgTech, Healthtech, or Biotechnology is highly preferred, demonstrating a clear understanding of applied data challenges in complex domains.
• Proven track record of working effectively within integrated product teams composed of ML Engineers, Data Scientists, Platform Engineers, and Application Engineers.
• Deep expertise in Snowflake or similar architecture and management.
• Hands‑on experience in knowledge modelling, ontology design (using RDF, OWL, or similar), and managing graph databases (e.g. Neo4j).
• Strong experience with MLOps frameworks like MLflow, DVC, Feast and data orchestration tools is required.
• A willingness to go above and beyond, bringing a highly proactive, product‑focused mindset aimed at delivering engineering excellence and tangible business transformation.
• Prior experience in a start‑up or scale‑up environment is essential. Ability to navigate ambiguous and uncertain scenarios to make key decisions.
• Excellent cross‑functional communication skills – comfortable working across technical and operational teams.
• Able to travel to our E8 London HQ approximately twice per week.
• [Desirable] Experience with multimodal data engineering and building customer facing data products.

👐🏼 What we can offer you:

• Up to £90k p.a. depending on experience and location
• Hybrid working, in the office twice a week with flexibility
• Inclusive and relaxed company culture: we welcome everyone, we encourage you to be yourself and dress as you like
• Lunch and snacks provided
• Exposure to state‑of‑the‑art technologies
• A talented and international work environment
• Travel within the UK & potentially into the US and LATAM
• A chance to work with well‑respected experts, including AI and robotics

📅 Hiring timeline

We’re accepting applications now but interviews will start in January 2026.

If you apply in December, please don’t worry if you don’t hear from us immediately – we’ll be in touch once we begin the interview process in the new year.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from all individuals are encouraged regardless of age, socioeconomic background, disability, sex, gender reassign, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.