We're Atom Learning and our mission is to help every child reach their potential.
We combine exceptional teacher-made content with technology, data science and machine learning to make high-quality, personalised education more accessible. Our aim is to give every child access to the kind of insight, support and individualised learning that was once largely limited to expensive private education and tutoring.
We're one of Europe's fastest-growing EdTech companies. Since 2018 we've grown from a startup of four friends to over 100 people, with specialists across education, engineering, product, learning design and marketing.
The scale is real:
We're remote-first! While our main office is in London, our team of over 100 people (and counting) works across 10 countries.
We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help shape the data platform behind some of our most important products.
Data at Atom isn't simply a reporting or support function. It powers customer-facing products that predict real-world exam outcomes, personalise what children learn next and help teachers understand where to focus their time and attention.
On our busiest days, more than a million new question responses flow through the platform. You'll be one of our go-to specialists for data engineering, taking ownership of how that data is collected, moved, transformed, modelled and made available across Atom.
Your impact will come in two ways. You'll contribute directly to data-powered product features, such as predicted grades, adaptive learning and exam outcome probabilities, while also helping other engineers and teams use data effectively. That might mean solving the data problem behind a new customer feature, helping an engineer navigate an unfamiliar part of the data platform, or creating tooling and patterns that make trusted data easier for everyone to use.
You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, education experts and colleagues across the business to turn complex problems into effective, reusable solutions.
This is a role for someone who wants to build excellent data infrastructure, but also cares deeply about what that infrastructure enables: better products, better decisions and ultimately better outcomes for learners.
Our culture is built on freedom, trust and high agency. We expect our engineers to be product-minded, curious and comfortable taking ownership beyond the boundaries of their specialism.
AI-assisted engineering is a core part of how we work. We use AI to learn faster, research unfamiliar problems, prototype ideas, explore alternatives and get to better solutions sooner. We believe its biggest value is in making strong engineers more capable, not simply helping them produce more code.
AI increases the amount we can execute, but it makes engineering judgement more important, not less. We value people who can work through ambiguity, decide what should be built, understand the trade-offs and take responsibility for the impact of their work rather than simply completing a well-defined task.
Your deepest expertise will be in data engineering, but you’ll understand the wider product, collaborate closely across disciplines and contribute wherever your expertise can have the greatest impact.
Our application data lives primarily in CockroachDB, with a modern data platform built around BigQuery, dbt, Airflow and pub/sub. Data flows both ways: into analytics and modelling, and back into the products our customers use.
That culture translates into a flat hierarchy with a high degree of autonomy, where engineers collaborate closely, share expertise freely and are trusted to use their judgement, shape solutions and take meaningful ownership of outcomes.
At Atom, diversity and inclusion is a priority, but also a necessity. To create a new standard for education across the world, we need a team of people with diverse perspectives so that we can challenge the status quo and reimagine learning experiences that work for everyone.
We're an equal opportunity employer that is committed to fostering an inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and have an impact. We encourage all applications irrespective of gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, nationality, marital status, and disability.
We also aren’t too concerned about qualifications, or whether you’ve followed the “conventional path” to get here. In fact, we highly value experience from other industries and walks of life - so don’t hesitate to apply, even if you don’t think you meet the exact criteria in this job description, we can work with you on the rest!
We are a group of educators, technologists and creators behind the UK’s fastest growing and most innovative online learning platform. We’re working to bring high-quality education to children globally, regardless of background. We do this by combining industry-defining teaching materials with world-beating technology.
Want to join a mission-driven, award-winning London startup committed to providing a world-class education to all? You're in the right place!
You’ll join a talented, supportive team, who work hard but have fun. You’ll be given a lot of responsibility and trusted to complete your work in the way you think is best. You will solve difficult problems with a huge impact on positive social change, and you’ll learn a lot along the way.
