Data Engineer

We are hiring a Data Engineer to own the database behind an AI-first fundraising platform, and to treat it like a product.

Paires is where founders come to raise capital. We pair them with the right investors from a large, engaged global investor network, then run the outreach that turns into meetings. It is a two-sided platform, live with paying clients, profitable and self-funded, built by a small, senior, flat team that ships fast.

The role

Everything we do runs on one asset: a database of founders, investors, and every signal about them. It grows faster than anyone can own it on the side. You become its owner. You design it, scale it, keep it clean, and turn it into the single source of truth that our matching, outreach, and agents pull from.

What you will own

• The database itself: schema design, modeling, scaling, and performance as it grows without a ceiling.
• Data quality end to end: validation gates for vendor and third-party data, dedup, entity resolution, monitoring.
• Enrichment pipelines: contact and company research at scale, engineered for cost and freshness.
• The unified data layer: one clean spine that every campaign, agent, and product feature reads from.

You are a fit if you

• Have built and owned production databases or warehouses end to end, not just queried them.
• Are strong in SQL and Python, with real pipeline work behind you: ingest, transform, dedup, enrich.
• Have caught bad data before it hurt the business, and can tell us how.
• Think in schemas and contracts, and design for the queries of a year from now.
• Move fast with AI tooling and own outcomes.

Bonus: Postgres and Supabase, dbt, vector embeddings, enrichment tooling, entity resolution at scale.

What we offer

Fully remote and async. The best AI tooling, paid (Claude Code, Cursor, top models). You work alongside our GTM lead and our founding engineers, and your layer feeds everything they build. Compensation: 85,000 to 135,000 GBP per year.

How to apply: hit apply, which takes you to our short application form. We read every application.