Houseful Limited

Houseful Limited is hiring a Data Platform Engineer in Greater London to help scale their data lakehouse and build infrastructure for data commercialization. The ideal candidate will have strong Python and AWS skills, along with experience in modern data platforms like Databricks. The position offers a hybrid work environment and various employee benefits, including 25 days of annual leave and 7.5% pension contribution. Join a passionate team as they innovate within the real estate sector.

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. While we're not a startup, we operate with a startup mindset. We're looking for people who share this mentality and are ready to tackle big ambitions. This is a fast-growing and exciting business going through significant change, and there's never been a better time to join us. We're looking for a passionate Data Platform Engineer to join the Alto Team. You'll help us scale the data lakehouse that powers analytics and AI across the business, build the infrastructure behind new data commercialisation products, and create the reusable building blocks that let our engineering teams move data around safely and quickly. What You'll Do Provide ongoing operational support and build new solutions for our data lakehouse and scale it out to serve internal analytics and AI use cases that boost productivity across the business. Build the infrastructure and business logic behind our new data commercialisation opportunities, partnering with product and commercial teams to turn data into revenue-generating products. Design and build the abstractions, blueprints and reusable templates that let service and analytics teams work with data safely and consistently, from ingestion through to storage and access. Play a key role in modernising our legacy monolithic SQL Server database - extracting data into our lakehouse and other parallel data stores, introducing data retention policies, and helping migrate to modern SQL frameworks and languages. Write ETL processes and contribute to data modelling for both internal analytics and external-facing data products, where the platform alone isn't enough. Take ownership of your work from design to deployment, either independently or as part of a collaborative team. Help shape our engineering practices and explore new ways of working to deliver value to our internal customers in a fast, predictable way. Our Technology Stack We believe in using the right tool for the job. Our current stack includes: Data Platform: Databricks, DBT, Fivetran Languages: Python, SQL Databases: SQL Server (legacy, being modernised), plus lakehouse storage on S3 Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (EventBridge, Kinesis, Lambda, S3, EC2), Terraform (Infrastructure as Code) Streaming: Kafka Containers & Orchestration: ECS, Kubernetes Who We're Looking For A data or platform engineer with strong Python skills and a track record of building data 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 interest in building 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. A platform mindset - you enjoy building tools, templates and paved roads for other engineers as much as you enjoy shipping pipelines yourself. Our Behaviours: Explore Boldly: We value engineers who are eager to learn new technologies and stay current with industry trends. Bounce Back Stronger: A pragmatic problem solver who can navigate ambiguity and find simple solutions to complex challenges. Own It Together: A collaborative team member who is willing to share early stage work and both give and receive constructive feedback. Make It Happen: A person who takes pride in their delivery and is passionate about creating high quality software at pace. Know Our Customers: You're a platform engineer who is genuinely interested in your internal customers' perspective. You strive to understand the purpose of your work so you can deliver the most impactful solutions. Don't worry if you don't check every box! We're looking for passionate engineers who are excited to grow. If you have a solid foundation in data engineering and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Hybrid - 2 days per week in our London HQ for team collaboration Opportunities for career development and advancement within a growing organisation. Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work 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 We want to make ASG more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed.

6 months Initial Contract - Must work from the UK Alto Software Group (ASG) is a leading B2B SaaS platform serving the UK property industry. We power thousands of estate agency branches and support a significant proportion of UK housing transactions each year. We are building a data-driven, operationally efficient platform business. AI will be a structural lever in improving internal productivity, reducing operational cost, and enhancing customer experience. This is a hands on delivery role responsible for building the automations and AI integrations that embed AI into how we operate. The Role We are hiring a contract AI Engineer to build, deploy and maintain AI-enabled automations across our core systems stack. Working with the Principal Engineer and the Head of AI Operations, you will take prioritised automation opportunities from design through to production. You will deliver against an internal AI roadmap spanning Customer Operations, Marketing, Finance, Education and Training to: Automate high volume, manual administrative workflows Build AI enabled workflows in Salesforce, Zendesk, HubSpot, Zuora and Thrive LMS Turn the Mission Control data platform into an engine for event triggered automation Reduce operational overhead and improve reporting speed and accuracy Core Responsibilities Automation Build & Integration Build and maintain automation pipelines using n8n, Zapier/Make and direct LLM API integrations (OpenAI/Anthropic) Develop API and webhook integrations across Salesforce, Zendesk, HubSpot, Zuora and Thrive LMS Implement workflows such as ticket summarisation, tagging, routing and AI triage AI Engineering Design and implement RAG pipelines and vector database integrations over internal knowledge Develop, test and version prompts; evaluate and improve output quality Build event triggered automations and AI enabled reporting on Mission Control Quality, Security & Handover Apply sound engineering standards: error handling, logging and monitoring of automations in production Ensure GDPR compliant, secure handling of customer and company data Document solutions clearly and hand over to internal teams for ongoing operation What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months) Priority automation workflows live, stable and monitored in production Measurable reduction in manual effort in targeted workflows Reliable integrations across the core systems stack Clear documentation enabling internal teams to operate and extend what you build Required Experience Technical Proven delivery of LLM based automation in production environments Strong experience with automation platforms (n8n, Make or Zapier) Proficiency in Python and SQL Strong API and webhook integration capability Experience working with OpenAI/Anthropic APIs and prompt engineering Experience building RAG pipelines and working with vector databases Experience automating CRM (Salesforce) and support (Zendesk) environments preferred Delivery Experience operating in B2B SaaS or similar fast moving environments Track record of delivering as a contractor: scoping, building and handing over cleanly Comfortable working with non technical stakeholders to refine requirements Personal Attributes Delivery focused and pragmatic High agency and accountability Structured, with strong attention to reliability and security Comfortable working in ambiguity Clear communicator with technical and non technical audiences Why This Role Matters AI will be a structural margin lever for ASG. The automations you build will directly reduce operational cost, increase capacity without incremental headcount, and embed AI as core operational infrastructure rather than experimentation.

Houseful Limited is seeking a contract AI Engineer based in the UK to build and maintain AI-enabled automations across our core systems. This role involves collaborating with technical leadership to manage prioritized automation opportunities from design to production. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in LLM-based automation and strong skills in automation platforms like n8n, along with API and webhook integration capabilities. A structured approach to delivery and strong communication with stakeholders is essential.

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. While we're not a start up, we have a start up mindset and want our people to operate with this mindset so that we can achieve our ambitions. The Role We are looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to bring intelligent automation and predictive capability to the heart of the UK property market. Alto sits at a unique intersection: we process an enormous volume of real transaction data, and we're only beginning to unlock what that means for the products our customers rely on every day. This is a role for someone who wants to build ML systems that genuinely change how people buy and sell homes - not maintain models that gather dust. What You'll Do Design, build, and deploy end-to-end machine learning pipelines - from data ingestion and feature engineering through to model serving and monitoring in production. Own the full lifecycle of ML models: evaluate, iterate, and retire them with the same rigour you bring to building them. Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to frame business problems as machine learning problems, and translate model outputs into product features users actually understand. Establish and maintain standards for ML reproducibility, experiment tracking, and model versioning across the Data team. Identify opportunities to apply ML across Alto's product suite - surfacing ideas proactively, not waiting to be briefed. Work with large, complex datasets drawn from live UK property transactions, ensuring data quality and feature reliability upstream of every model. Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing with data engineers and analysts. What You Need to Be Successful Proven experience building and shipping machine learning models into production environments - not just notebooks and prototypes. Strong Python skills and hands on experience with ML frameworks such as scikit learn, PyTorch, or TensorFlow. Solid understanding of MLOps principles: model serving, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining pipelines. Experience working with cloud infrastructure - AWS preferred - and comfort deploying models in containerised or serverless environments. A rigorous, statistically grounded approach to model evaluation - you know when a model is good enough and when it isn't. The ability to communicate model behaviour and limitations clearly to non technical stakeholders. Familiarity with data pipeline tooling (e.g. Airflow, dbt, Spark) and an understanding of how ML fits within a broader data platform. There's always room to grow and learn with our roles - please don't be put off if you don't have all of these. It's more important that you're passionate about improving the home moving and owning experience for everyone. Our Technology Stack Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, C#, .NET Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB), Terraform Architecture: Microservices, Event driven architecture Data & ML: Python, AWS SageMaker, S3, Redshift Why Join Alto? This role gives you genuine ownership of ML capability at a company that processes more housing transactions than anyone else in the UK - the data advantage is real and largely untapped. You will have the scope to define how machine learning is built and deployed at Alto, not slot into a pre defined process. It's an exciting moment to join: we're investing seriously in our Data function, and this hire will shape its direction. 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 We want to make Alto more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed.

Houseful Limited is looking for a Senior Machine Learning Engineer to revolutionize the UK property market through intelligent automation. This role involves designing, building, and deploying end-to-end machine learning pipelines, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams. Applicants should have strong Python skills, experience with machine learning frameworks like scikit-learn and TensorFlow, and a solid understanding of MLOps principles. The role offers the chance to work with real transaction data and influence the future of product features.

Houseful Limited is seeking a passionate Software Engineer to join their team. This role offers the opportunity to develop critical backend services using TypeScript, Node.js, and Apollo GraphQL. Working in a hybrid model, you will take ownership of your projects and collaborate closely with product and design teams. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in modern API development and be comfortable with cloud-native practices, particularly using AWS technologies. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace and offers various employee perks such as 25 days of annual leave and a 7.5% pension contribution.

Hybrid - 2 days per week in our London HQ 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. While we're not a startup, we operate with a startup mindset. We're looking for people who share this mentality and are ready to tackle big ambitions. This is a fast-growing and exciting business going through significant change, and there's never been a better time to join us. We're looking for a passionate Software Engineer to join the Alto Team. What You'll Do Develop and maintain critical backend services using TypeScript, Node.js and Apollo GraphQL. Work with serverless technologies like AWS ECS, SQS, and DocumentDB to build scalable, event-driven architectures. Take ownership of your work from design to deployment, either independently or as part of a collaborative team. Collaborate with product and design teams to translate complex business problems into elegant, customer-focused solutions. Help us shape our engineering practices and explore new ways of working (e Shape Up methodology) to deliver value to our customers in a fast, predictable way. Contribute to our modern microservices and event-driven architecture, ensuring our platform is resilient and performant. Our Technology Stack We believe in using the right tool for the job. Our current stack includes: Backend: TypeScript, Node.js, Apollo GraphQL, MongoDB Frontend: TypeScript, React Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, Lambda, SQS, DocumentDB, DynamoDB), Terraform, SST (Infrastructure as Code) Architecture: Microservices, Micro-Frontends, Event-driven architecture Who We're Looking For A software engineer with a strong background in TypeScript/JavaScript and experience in modern API development with Node.js. Someone who is comfortable building distributed systems with asynchronous event-driven architecture. Knowledge of designing and implementing GraphQL schemas, resolvers and mutations, with Apollo Server or an equivalent framework. An understanding of cloud-native development practices and awareness of AWS ECS, S3 and SQS (or vendor equivalents). Explore Boldy: We value engineers who are eager to learn new technologies and stay current with industry trends. Bounce back Stronger: A pragmatic problem-solver who can navigate ambiguity and find simple solutions to complex challenges. Own it together: A collaborative team member who is willing to share early-stage work and both give and receive constructive feedback. Make it Happen: A person who takes pride in their delivery and is passionate about creating high-quality software at pace. Know our Customers: You're a product engineer who is genuinely interested in the customer's perspective. You strive to understand the purpose of your work so you can deliver the most impactful solutions. Don't worry if you don't check every box! We're looking for passionate engineers who are excited to grow. If you have a solid foundation in TypeScript/JavaScript and Node.js and are eager to learn, we encourage you to apply. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work 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 We want to make ASG more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed.

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. While we're not a start-up, we have a start-up mindset and want our people to operate with this mindset so that we can achieve our ambitions. The Role We are looking for a Head of Analytics to lead and develop our analytics function at a pivotal moment in its growth. Our Analytics team has matured significantly over the past year - the foundations are solid, the team is talented, and now we need a leader who can take them all the way. This is a player/manager role with real scope: you will drive the analytical agenda at senior leadership level while staying close enough to the work to get things over the line when it counts. What You'll Do Lead, mentor, and performance-manage a team of analysts - helping them grow their technical and communication skills and creating an environment where they do their best work. Set and communicate team priorities across Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Product, exercising clear judgement on urgency and importance when competing demands arise. Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior stakeholders, translating business context into analytical direction and making sure the team's output is always tied to what matters. Own complex, high-visibility projects that require coordination across the business and SLT exposure - driving them from ambiguous question to clear recommendation. Step in at the detail level when it counts: taking analysis from 90% to 100% by working directly in SQL, Databricks, and ThoughtSpot alongside the team. Champion the use of AI in analytics workflows - identifying where it adds genuine value and helping the team build fluency with emerging use cases. Present findings and recommendations to senior and executive audiences with clarity and confidence, adapting your style to the room. Who You Are A dual-altitude operator. You can zoom out to shape strategy with the SLT and zoom back in to write the query that unlocks the answer. You know when to do each, and you're comfortable switching between them in the same day. A developer of people. You care about the growth of the people around you. You invest time in mentoring, create structures for development, and take performance management seriously - both the encouragement and the difficult conversations. Technically credible. You have strong hands on SQL skills and experience with BI tooling. You can describe a data transformation clearly enough that an engineer trusts your thinking, and a stakeholder understands the answer. A sharp communicator. You ask the right questions, build trust with people quickly, and can explain complex analytical concepts to a non technical audience without losing the insight. You know that the best analysis is useless if it doesn't land. Commercially astute. You understand how Sales and Operations teams actually work - what keeps them up at night, how they make decisions, and what they need from analytics to act with confidence. AI curious and forward thinking. You have experience applying AI to analytics problems and can bring a credible point of view on where it creates real leverage for a team like ours. There's always room to grow and learn with our roles - please don't be put off if you don't have all of these. It's more important that you're passionate about improving the home moving and owning experience for everyone. Tools & Environment You will work primarily in SQL via Databricks, ThoughtSpot as our BI platform, and Salesforce for CRM data. Experience with these tools is a strong advantage; competence across SQL and BI visualisation is essential. Why Join Alto? This role offers genuine influence - you will be a member of the Software Operating Leadership team with a direct line to how strategy is set and executed. You will inherit a team that has already done the hard yards building strong foundations, giving you the chance to focus on what's next rather than what's broken. It's a rare combination of analytical depth, people leadership, and commercial impact at a company that is shaping how the UK housing market works. 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 Talent referral bonus up to £5K We want to make Alto more welcoming, fair and representative every day. We'll consider everyone who applies for this role in the same way, regardless of your ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, neurodiversity status, family or parental status, or how long you've spent unemployed.