Senior Engineer, Ingestion

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Founded 2024

👥 HR Tech

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

⚡ Productivity

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Smartwage Società Benefit is a company that focuses on providing solutions for improving employee engagement and community insights, primarily through advanced metrics and analytics. They leverage innovative technology to help organizations optimize their human resources and build stronger connections within their teams and customer bases. Their services include data-driven insights that enhance communication, engagement, and overall performance in digital community platforms.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end data collection, processing, and storage across integrations • Design event flows, queuing, retries, failure recovery, and data consistency at scale • Process millions of messages while focusing on throughput, latency, deduplication, backfills, schema design, and data-store performance • Build pipeline observability and monitor operational health, data freshness, and data quality • Collaborate with product and AI teams to identify pipeline bottlenecks and deliver continuous incremental updates • Add new platforms such as Discord, Reddit, Steam, X, and customer-owned sources • Build systems that make new integrations quick and inexpensive, increasingly with AI agents • Help transition ingestion systems incrementally toward event-driven architecture • Make engineering trade-offs between simplification, core foundations, refactoring, and rapid adjustment • Provide technical clarity and drive progress in ambiguous problem spaces

🎯 Requirements

• Hands-on Senior Engineer with ownership of high-volume production data pipelines • Ability to detail past systems owned, including throughput volume, load patterns, performance bottlenecks, and structural optimizations • Production experience with messaging queues, pub/sub, or streams • Understanding of ordering, idempotency, retries, and dead-letter handling • Proactive risk management and accountability for operational health in production • Solid backend engineering experience with significant focus on data pipelines and infrastructure • Proficiency with TypeScript and Node.js across backend services and database stores • AI-native engineering experience using coding agents • Strong data-store skills at scale, including schema design, query optimisation, indexing, and partitioning • Experience with relational and analytical stores such as ClickHouse • Hands-on ownership of rate limits, schema drifts, backfills, and partial failures • Focus on pipeline observability, data freshness, and strict data quality standards • Ability to navigate ambiguity, establish technical clarity, and drive progress independently • Preference for incremental delivery based on real-world usage • Clear communication through concise PRs, technical docs, and async updates • Located in European timezones with core overlap with UK business hours • Nice to have: experience with GCP Pub/Sub, Kafka, or equivalent event-streaming technologies • Nice to have: familiarity with Temporal or other durable execution frameworks • Nice to have: hands-on work with third-party platform APIs, rate limits, and dynamic payloads • Nice to have: direct experience managing Discord, Reddit, or social media datasets • Nice to have: exposure to ingested data feeding downstream AI or search systems • Nice to have: background in high-growth startup environments • Nice to have: experience migrating live systems toward event-driven architectures without service interruption • Nice to have: impactful technical writing, open-source projects, or engineering documentation

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive basic salary - full details shared at the initial interview stage • 25 days annual leave plus UK public holidays • Remote or hybrid working • Flexible working hours • Co-working space access, including Soho Works locations across London and the US • Stock option plan • Home office budget once you pass probation • Mental health support through Spill • Twice-yearly company meet-ups

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