Software Engineer (Data)

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

Job summary

A leading Customer Analytics company in London seeks a Software/Data Engineer to develop applications for a next-generation data + AI platform. This role involves building scalable applications, collaborating with infrastructure teams, and managing operational data effectively. Candidates need 3+ years in software/data engineering, experience with Python, and familiarity with AWS and Data lakes. The position offers a hybrid work model and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working

Free breakfast daily

26 days holiday

Pension scheme

Income Protection with Employee Assistance Programme

Life Assurance

Mental Health platform and counselling

Higher than statutory maternity/paternity benefits

Work socials

Wellbeing programme

Cycle to work scheme

Training opportunities

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Software/Data engineering roles including writing Streaming/Data intensive applications.
• Backend Software experience using Python.
• Experience with at least one major public cloud, primarily AWS.
• Familiarity with building and managing Data lakes.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy applications from scratch and using stream processing frameworks.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams on deploying and releasing data processing infrastructure.
• Build systems to manage operational and metadata needs.
• Support Data Engineering and Customer Solutions Engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Python

Streaming applications

AWS

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Job description

About Intent HQ

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of the FT1000 Fast Growing Companies in Europe (2022–2024), and winners of both Analytics Company of the Year 2025 and AI Company of the Year 2024 at the British Data Awards, Intent HQ is a leader and innovator in Customer AI Analytics and Data Science. Backed by strong investors and trusted by a blue‑chip international enterprise customer base, our mission is to become the world’s preeminent Customer Intent Engine by combining privacy‑first signal intelligence, proprietary behavioural AI/ML analytics, and uniquely accessible enterprise insights into a single platform that enables organisations to build more genuine, sustainable, and profitable relationships with customers.

We began by solving complex challenges for clients in the telecommunications sector, including Verizon, O2, and Orange, and have since expanded into Financial Services, Retail, and Social Media, with clients such as HB Reavis and Zurich Group. Our clients typically manage tens of millions of customers and process billions of interactions daily. Our platform is purpose‑built to handle data at this enormous scale efficiently, delivering tangible results—one client achieved £26m in incremental revenue through our solutions.

What sets us apart is our focus on deep customer interaction data, doing the hard, specialised work so our clients can focus on applying insight to their business strategies.

Today, Intent HQ is home to an exciting, diverse, and fast‑growing team of 100+ people across London, Barcelona, Lisbon, Tel Aviv, New York, South Africa & India collectively speaking over 15 languages.

Awards & Recognition:

• Analytics Company of the Year 2025 – British Data Awards
  

• AI Company of the Year 2024 – British Data Awards
  

• FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies 2022–2024 – Financial Times & Statista

• Top 100 Edge Computing Company 2024 – STL Partners

Why Join Us:

• Exciting Work Environment: Work on cutting‑edge technology at the intersection of AI and data analytics.

• Hybrid working : 3 days per week in our London office (or monthly equivalent if you live further afield)

• Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in a fast‑paced, innovative industry.

The Opportunity:

IntentHQ are at the start of building out a next‑generation data + AI platform for collating and analysing extremely granular behavioural intent data across web and mobile data. We are looking for a software engineer/data engineer to write production services and streaming applications to power our customer‑facing AI capabilities and act as a secure front door to Intents infrastructure.

What will you do:

• Build and Deploy applications both from scratch and using stream processing frameworks that can handle multiple tenants that can scale up to the demands of high‑scale businesses.

• Collaborate with our Infrastructure teams on how we deploy and release data processing infrastructure and automate the management of our datasets securely.

• Build systems to manage operational and metadata needs so that we know if there are problems with data before customers do.

• Support Data Engineering + Customer Solutions Engineers' needs on their bespoke customer solutions.

What We’re Looking For:

• Essential

  • 3 + years of experience in Software/Data engineering roles, including writing Streaming/Data Intensive applications.

  • Backend Software experience using Python.

  • Experience with at least one of the major public clouds (We currently use mostly AWS)

  • Familiarity with building and managing Data lakes (We are moving to using Delta Lake and Unity Catalog quite extensively in Databricks)

• Desired but not essential.

  • Experience with Telemetry/IOT workloads

  • Experience with Databricks or similar Data platforms

  • Experience with DevOps approaches of deploying/managing your own software

  • Familiarity with how Machine Learning and Agentic applications use data.

Benefits

• Flexible working

• Free breakfast daily (when in the office)
  

• 26 days holiday (increasing with service)
  

• Pension scheme
  
• Income Protection with Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Life Assurance
  
• Oliva Mental Health platform and counselling
• Higher than statutory maternity/paternity benefits
  
• Work socials
  
• Wellbeing programme
  
• Cycle to work scheme
  
• Training opportunities