Staff Data Engineer

Salary: £125,000 - 140,000 per year

Requirements:

• Experience operating as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, or equivalent senior individual contributor within a modern SaaS product business.
• Experience defining technical architecture that supports both immediate product delivery and long-term platform evolution.
• Experience translating ambiguous commercial or product requirements into pragmatic technical solutions.
• Experience balancing technology decisions with people, engineering capability, and commercial priorities.
• Experience working closely with Product teams to shape delivery, influence roadmaps, and create measurable customer value.
• Experience considering architecture beyond the codebase, including product delivery, customer release planning, and go-to-market implications.
• Experience influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams without formal line management.
• Experience making pragmatic architectural decisions in fast-paced environments where priorities change regularly.
• Broad experience across multiple data disciplines, including data engineering, analytics, platforms, and product engineering.
• Strong relationship-building skills across Engineering, Product, and other business functions.
• Exposure to event-driven architectures, data platform strategy, modern data ecosystems, Machine Learning or AI-enabled products, or Platform Engineering principles would be advantageous.
• Experience mentoring senior engineers and developing technical capability across engineering teams would be advantageous.
• Experience in large-scale SaaS product environments serving significant customer bases would be advantageous.

Responsibilities:

• Shape the technical strategy and architecture of our data platform.
• Lead architectural discussions across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate evolving product and commercial requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner closely with Product to ensure engineering decisions support customer outcomes and business priorities.
• Mentor engineers and help raise technical standards across the organisation.
• Provide technical leadership without formal management responsibility.
• Balance long-term architectural improvements with the pace of product delivery.
• Drive engineering best practice, technical consistency, and architectural governance.
• Influence technology decisions across multiple teams while supporting a collaborative engineering culture.
• Help solve company-scale engineering challenges within a fast-moving SaaS environment.

Technologies:

• AI
• Support
• Machine Learning

More:

We are a high-growth SaaS organisation where engineering plays a central role in shaping the future of the product. This is a rare opportunity to operate as a true Staff Engineer in a modern SaaS business, influencing architecture across multiple teams and partnering closely with Product to solve real customer problems. The role is based in Leeds or London with on-site attendance once a month, and offers a salary of £120k to £140k. We provide a collaborative engineering culture where technical leadership is genuinely valued, and where you can balance hands-on technical depth with strategic architectural influence while helping evolve a platform used by thousands of customers.

last updated 30 week of 2026