Senior Data Engineer — GenAI-Driven Data Platform (Remote)

Firstup; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent PTO

Health benefits

Remote work

Casual environment

Job summary

Firstup is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines and analytics models. You will develop natural language interfaces to data using GenAI/LLM techniques and improve data quality and observability across teams.

You will contribute to shared codebases, enforce SQL standards, and help evolve the data architecture while supporting production pipelines and incident response. Strong Python and cloud experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years building reliable, high-performance distributed systems with emphasis on streaming/data pipelines.
• Experience with multi-tenant SaaS experiences.
• Experience building natural language interfaces over data warehouses using GenAI/LLM techniques.
• Experience with large-scale analytical data warehouses (StarRocks, Redshift, Snowflake, Databricks, Trino).
• Expertise writing, optimizing, and analyzing SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka and Spark.
• Experience in scaling data modeling and warehousing.
• Proficiency in Python.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, warehouse models, and analytics solutions.
• Build and maintain natural language interfaces to data and analytics using GenAI/LLM techniques.
• Use GenAI coding tools to improve code quality, testing, and delivery speed.
• Evaluate new technologies to scale the data platform and stack.
• Establish standards for SQL development, data modeling, testing, and production support.
• Support production pipelines via on-call rotation and incident response.
• Document and maintain tech stack knowledge, translating business needs into solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

Kafka

GenAI

LLM interfaces

AWS

GCP

Data pipelines

Data warehousing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

StarRocks

Amazon Redshift

Snowflake

Databricks

Trino

Airflow

Metabase

AWS

GCP

Job description

Firstup is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design and build scalable data pipelines and analytics models. You will develop natural language interfaces to data using GenAI/LLM techniques and improve data quality and observability across teams.

You will contribute to shared codebases, enforce SQL standards, and help evolve the data architecture while supporting production pipelines and incident response. Strong Python and cloud experience are essential.