Senior Software Engineer II (Data & AI Platform)

Description

The Data Platform team is looking for a technical leader to set direction and make key architecture decisions across data, platform and infrastructure.

You will work within the Data Platform department to build scalable, reliable and well-governed capabilities that serve analytics, AI and business-critical products. You will work alongside Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Enterprise Architects.

The company operates job platforms across more than 30 countries, with over 20 brands and 3,000+ employees. Its aim is to reshape the labour market.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision, roadmap and architecture for the Data Platform, and lead decisions across data, platform and infrastructure
• Create engineering standards, best practices and reusable patterns together with Enterprise Architecture, shaping technical direction
• Raise engineering quality by strengthening code quality, testing, observability, reliability and operational practices
• Guide teams through complex technical problems, sharpen decision-making, and take part in planning and risk management to support delivery from start to finish
• Mentor engineers and build senior technical skills, and promote AI-assisted development and engineering automation

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Data Engineer or in an equivalent senior individual contributor role
• Strong background in data platforms, distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with a record of shaping technical direction across teams and stakeholders
• Solid hands-on expertise with AWS, Terraform, Kafka/MSK, Airflow, Glue or Spark, and building scalable data solutions
• Experience with modern data ecosystems, including data lakes and lakehouse architectures, Iceberg or similar table formats, and both batch and streaming processing
• Knowledge of data quality, governance, cataloguing and observability tools such as Datadog. DBT or AI-assisted engineering practices are a plus

Conditions

Hybrid working model

Equal opportunities matter to the company, and applications are welcome from people of all backgrounds

Benefits

• 29 days holiday allowance plus bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Pension contribution of up to 10%
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life assurance cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Volunteering days
• Dogs are welcome in the office