Data Engineer for AI-Driven EdTech Platform

Atom Learning Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday + bank holidays

3 days winter leave

Remote-first company

Annual L&D budget

Private medical

EMI options available

Wellbeing platform access

Competitive pay

Enhanced family leave

Monthly events (remote and London)

Autonomy & exposure to running startup

Job summary

Atom Learning Ltd. is seeking a Data Engineer to shape the data platform behind our education products.

You will build scalable data pipelines, models and features, ensuring data quality and observability while partnering with product, engineering, commercial, and educational teams to deliver measurable impact. You will mentor engineers, contribute beyond the data layer when needed, and apply AI tools to research, prototype and improve solutions in a remote-first environment that values autonomy

Qualifications

• Strong Python and SQL skills and maintainable code.
• Experience designing, building, maintaining and scaling production data pipelines.
• Knowledge of data modelling and database architecture.
• Experience with cloud data warehouses and orchestration tools.

Responsibilities

• Build and evolve the data foundations behind customer-facing products, including predictive features and insights.
• Own the design, development and ongoing improvement of reliable, scalable data pipelines and models.
• Shape the technical direction of our data platform and improve data movement between application, warehouse and product surfaces.
• Create clean, well-tested, reusable solutions using Python, SQL and dbt.
• Improve data quality, observability and reliability for teams.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, commercial teams and educators to solve problems and measure impact.
• Develop tooling and patterns to help engineers self-serve data safely.
• Leverage AI tools to prototype, investigate and improve solutions.
• Contribute beyond the data layer with product features, APIs or automation.
• Review code and mentor other engineers to raise data capability.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data pipelines

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

dbt

Airflow

BigQuery

PostgreSQL

CockroachDB

Tableau/Metabase

Job description

Atom Learning Ltd. is seeking a Data Engineer to shape the data platform behind our education products.

You will build scalable data pipelines, models and features, ensuring data quality and observability while partnering with product, engineering, commercial, and educational teams to deliver measurable impact. You will mentor engineers, contribute beyond the data layer when needed, and apply AI tools to research, prototype and improve solutions in a remote-first environment that values autonomy