Data Platform Engineer – AI & LLM Systems

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 2 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About Modo Energy

The energy transition is the biggest infrastructure buildout in human history. Modo Energy is the data platform at the centre of it.

We build the benchmarking forecasting and valuation tools that the worlds most serious energy investors developers and operators depend on to make decisions. If a battery gets financed built or traded anywhere in the world theres a good chance Modo data was in the room.

Founded in 2019 were 75 people across London New York Sydney and Madrid; $30M Series B AI-native and moving fast.

This is a rare chance to join a category-defining company at the moment its scaling globally.

The Role

Were hiring a Data Platform Engineer to join the foundational layer of the Modo Energy platform. The Data team ingests energy market data from providers across the globe processes it through our data lakehouse and makes it available to every team and product at Modo Energy - including The Modo Energy Terminal forecasting models and our LLM-based AI Analyst.

Right now our focus is shifting from pipeline infrastructure to data presentation at scale. Youll help build the layer that puts data in front of users - interactive tools in the Modo Energy Terminal MCP servers AI agents direct data lake access and the semantic layers that let users discover our data.

Youll join a small team with full ownership of engineering and product decisions. The standards you set will shape how the platform grows.

What Youll Do

Design and build stable well-documented APIs that internal teams paying customers and our AI Analyst depend on - with real attention to versioning backwards compatibility and developer experience
Build the query and response layers that make complex energy market data fast and accessible - thinking carefully about latency caching and how data needs to be shaped for different consumers
Own the full lifecycle of what you ship: scope it build it deploy it and keep it running
Contribute to how our pipeline platform evolves and maintain the infrastructure it runs on
Write and maintain Terraform manage cloud infrastructure and monitor platform health as a normal part of your week
Write well-tested maintainable code and contribute to engineering culture through thoughtful code review and clear documentation

What Were Looking For

The Essentials

4 years of professional software development with a strong track record of delivering production-quality systems
Strong Python proficiency
Proven experience designing and shipping external-facing APIs - versioning backwards compatibility OpenAPI/REST standards
Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and cloud infrastructure day-to-day (we use AWS and Terraform but equivalent experience is fine)
AI-native working style - you already use AI coding tools as a core part of how you work or are genuinely excited to

Nice To Have

Experience with any part of our data stack: Django REST Framework Apache Airflow Apache Spark Apache Iceberg Apache Kafka AWS (EMR ECS)
Experience running your own Airflow cluster or working with Spark at the infrastructure level rather than just the API level
Familiarity with energy markets

Equal Opportunity & Legal

Modo Energy is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications merit and business need. We do not discriminate on the basis of age national origin physical or mental disability race religion pregnancy sexual orientation gender identity veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable UK law including the Equality Act 2010.

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What You Can Expect From Us

At Modo Energy we believe that exceptional work deserves exceptional reward. Were a high-performance team; ambitious collaborative and genuinely motivated by the scale of what were trying to build.

Youll have real ownership from day one work alongside some of the brightest people in the industry and be part of a company thats defining a new category in the global energy market. Were hybrid: everyone works Tuesday to Thursday in office with Monday and Friday flexible. We offer top-of-market compensation equity for every employee and the space to take your career wherever you want it to go.

Were looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers. If thats you we want to talk.

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About Modo EnergyThe energy transition is the biggest infrastructure buildout in human history. Modo Energy is the data platform at the centre of it.We build the benchmarking forecasting and valuation tools that the worlds most serious energy investors developers and operators depend on to make deci...