Data Engineer, Translucent
£89.3-105k
Financial data platform & accounting apps
Open for applications
Financial data platform & accounting apps
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£89.3-105k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the CFO super-app that solves the everyday problems of finance teams.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years building and maintaining production data pipelines or similar backend systems at scale
- Deep expertise in SQL & Python, data-warehouse modelling, and orchestration frameworks
- Hands-on with one or more modern BI tools (e.g. Looker, Hex, Mode) and a track record of enabling self-service analytics
- Practical knowledge of applied AI / ML workflows—vector databases, feature stores, model monitoring, or LLM integration is a big plus
- A product mindset—you measure success by the customer and business outcomes your data products unlock, not by rows processed
- Comfort navigating an early-stage, fast-moving environment: you can unblock yourself, choose scrappy vs. scalable when appropriate, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical peers
- Experience with accounting or fintech data sources is nice to have, but curiosity and quick learning trump specific domain knowledge
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a product-minded Data Engineer who loves turning messy, real-world data into clean, reliable fuel for decision-making and AI-powered features
- You’ll be the force behind our modern data platform—designing pipelines, championing data quality, and building self-serve tooling so every Translucent team (Product, Sales, Ops, Finance, Customer Success) can dive deep without waiting in a queue
- Our culture is one of relentless curiosity and bias-for-action
- You’ll sit in a small, cross-functional squad, shipping end-to-end: from ingest to warehouse to dashboards to user-facing product features that leverage applied AI (think embeddings, vector search, LLM-powered enrichment)
- If you enjoy both heads-down engineering and white-boarding product ideas with designers or CFOs, you’ll feel right at home
- Design & build pipelines that ingest data from accounting platforms, CRMs, and internal services into our warehouse and feature stores (batch + streaming)
- Own the modern data stack (dbt, Airflow/Prefect, Snowflake/BigQuery, event streams) and set the standards for testing, observability, and data quality
- Empower everyone by creating clear, documented marts, metrics layers, and self-serve dashboards; be the go-to mentor for SQL, BI, and experiment design
- Embed AI in the product—work with ML engineers to productionise models, store embeddings, and expose real-time features to our front-end via APIs
- Partner with Product & Growth to understand user pain points, prototype data-driven features, and measure impact
- Set direction for data governance, security, and privacy, balancing speed with regulatory requirements
- Continuously improve—measure what you ship, iterate, and share learnings across the company
Our take
Accounting is a necessary and central function of any business. Due to game-changing innovations in the space, carrying out that function efficiently and in a cost-effective manner has never been easier. Translucent is a company hoping to take the computational revolution in accounting even further, with its data-led, next-gen accounting system.
Tranlucent's platform consolidates data from its clients' existing accounting solutions to create a single system of record. Its app suite, which is built atop the platform, then enables finance teams to search, report, and analyse this data - with additional capabilities including live sheets and automated multi-entity reconciliations.
With every business needing accounting software, the opportunity here is huge. Translucent has already secured funding, landed some impressive individuals and is looking for top performers to fill out the team. It intends to use funds to accelerate growth, as well as expand operations and its business reach.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Aug 2023
$6.8m
SEED
Mar 2023
$3.7m
SEED
Total funding: $10.5m
Company benefits
- 23 days holiday + public holidays + the days between Christmas and New Year
- Pension Contributions
- Healthcare
- Remote
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Michael Wood
(Founder & CEO)Also a Co-founder at Cambrian, and Non Executive Director at Cable Tech. Previously co-founded Receipt Bank, an SaaS app for accountants.
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