Senior Data Engineer: AI Platform & Data Infrastructure

Smart Working; Peshawar City Tehsil; On-site; PKR 33,306,000 - 49,958,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart Working in a fully remote environment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale the data infrastructure powering an AI platform for property management. You will design real-time data pipelines, vector databases, and ML data workflows, partnering with AI, backend, product and leadership to set data architecture and standards as the founding data hire.

This role offers a remote-first, long-term opportunity to shape data culture, establish governance, and grow with the company as

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering.
• Experience designing and building data pipelines and distributed data systems.
• Experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL preferred (MySQL or similar acceptable).
• Experience with NoSQL databases.
• Experience with vector databases used in modern AI systems.
• Strong programming experience in Python.
• Ability to make architectural decisions and justify them.
• Experience building scalable backend systems.
• Experience designing data models and storage architectures.
• Strong understanding of data processing performance and optimisation.
• Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Kafka, Elasticsearch or OpenSearch.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and vector databases such as Qdrant, Milvus or pgvector.
• Experience with Python data-processing libraries such as Pandas or Polars.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure to support AI and product systems.
• Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
• Develop and manage batch and real-time data pipelines.
• Build and optimise systems for vector search, retrieval and machine learning data pipelines.
• Ensure data reliability, security and governance across the platform.
• Collaborate with AI and backend engineering teams to support training, inference and product features.
• Implement monitoring, observability and data quality frameworks.
• Optimise the performance of large-scale datasets and query systems.
• Contribute to technical architecture decisions and long-term data strategy.
• Act as the founding data hire, defining culture, standards and the hiring bar for the data function as it scales.
• Partner directly with founders and product leadership to translate data capabilities into product decisions.

Skills

Python

Data architecture decisions

Backend system design

Data modeling

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

NoSQL databases

Vector databases

Apache Spark

Apache Airflow

Kafka

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch

Job description

Smart Working in a fully remote environment is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and scale the data infrastructure powering an AI platform for property management. You will design real-time data pipelines, vector databases, and ML data workflows, partnering with AI, backend, product and leadership to set data architecture and standards as the founding data hire.

This role offers a remote-first, long-term opportunity to shape data culture, establish governance, and grow with the company as