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Lead Data Engineer (+ Equity) at LightWork AI
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Job Title
Lead Data Engineer
Salary
Not Disclosed + Equity
Company Description
LightWork AI is building the AI-driven operating system for the £33B property management market, featuring an autonomous agent that handles communications and coordination for over 14,000 units.
Job Description
As the first senior data hire at LightWork AI, you will architect the end-to-end data layer powering Felicity, our autonomous AI agent. You’ll build real-time pipelines and dynamic data models that allow our AI to query live property records, fundamentally transforming how the £33B property management industry operates.
Location
London, UK
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead greenfield data engineering for an AI platform managing 14,000+ units, reporting to a Head of Engineering who previously built a 140-person data department.
- Own the end-to-end data layer for "Felicity," an autonomous agent automating 90% of operations in the £33B property management market.
- Join at a pivotal early stage with meaningful equity and the opportunity to define the technical architecture and long-term data strategy.
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What You Will Do
- Architect and maintain real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Debezium) integrating diverse Property Management Systems like Alto, MRI, and Reapit.
- Design resilient data models and schemas for complex property data, defining how live information is structured and served to the LLM layer.
- Develop knowledge extraction pipelines to pull valuable signals from unstructured sources including emails, legal documents, and PDFs.
The ideal candidate
- 7+ years of data or backend engineering experience, specifically building scalable distributed systems and real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, or Airflow).
- Expert proficiency in Python and SQL, with deep hands-on experience in PostgreSQL, NoSQL databases, and managing data processing performance at scale.
- Architectural expertise in designing data ingestion and storage frameworks for AI workloads, including vector databases and ML data pipelines.
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