Alto Software Group is a B2B SaaS company that powers more than half of all UK housing transactions each year. We create software solutions that connect businesses and consumers, delivering a one-stop shop for estate agents and home builders. Our goal is to drive efficiency, speed up transactions, reduce risk, and improve the end-customer experience.
Requirements
- A senior data or platform engineer with strong Python skills and a track record of building data platform infrastructure that other engineers and analysts depend on.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform, and a comfort with infrastructure-as-code as the default way of working.
- Experience with a modern lakehouse or warehouse platform (Databricks ideally, or Snowflake/BigQuery), and with data ingestion and transformation tools (Fivetran/DBT).
- Familiarity with Kafka or similar streaming systems, and an appreciation of the abstractions that make event-driven data flows easy for other teams to adopt.
- Solid SQL skills and a good sense for data modelling, even if it isn't the main thing you do day to day.
- Awareness of container orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes) and how data workloads run in production.
- Experience managing software engineers — ideally data or data platform engineers — including hiring, performance management, coaching and career development.
- A genuine appetite for staying technical. You see hands-on engineering as core to the role, not a distraction from “real” management work.
- Capable of leading technical discussions among the team and overseeing performance and delivery for a data platform product area.
- Comfortable engaging directly with internal customers and stakeholders to understand their problems and what matters most to them.
- Drive effective communication within and across teams. This includes asynchronous communication via documentation; we use Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) so teams can let others know what they are working on.
- Accustomed to operating with significant alignment and independence, and comfortable navigating technical and organisational uncertainty.
- A platform mindset — you take pride in building tools, templates and paved roads that make other engineers' lives easier, and you instil that same mindset in your team.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
- Festive Closure - business closed for period between Christmas and New Year
- Cycle to work and electric car schemes
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K
