Senior Python Engineer — Data Platform (Remote, Equity)

Vortexa; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing international technology company in London seeks a skilled engineer to join its Data Platform Team. You will design and build infrastructure to ensure fault-tolerance and streamline data processing. Ideal candidates are fluent in Python and experienced in distributed systems, eager to innovate in a start-up environment. The role offers private health insurance and a flexible working policy, with opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Private Health Insurance

Flexible working policy

Global Volunteering Policy

Qualifications

• Experience in building distributed heavy-load backend systems.
• Comfortable with highly scalable data processing pipelines.
• Passionate about mentoring and coaching developers.

Responsibilities

• Design and build infrastructure for data pipelines.
• Ensure 100% uptime and fault-tolerance in data pipelines.
• Bridge scientific experiments and commercial products.

Skills

Fluent in Python

Expertise in distributed systems

Experience with scalable data processing libraries

Strong software engineering fundamentals

Coaching developers

Tools

AWS

Apache Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

A fast-growing international technology company in London seeks a skilled engineer to join its Data Platform Team. You will design and build infrastructure to ensure fault-tolerance and streamline data processing. Ideal candidates are fluent in Python and experienced in distributed systems, eager to innovate in a start-up environment. The role offers private health insurance and a flexible working policy, with opportunities for personal development.