Lead Backend Engineer

2 weeks ago

Greater London, United Kingdom Aura Vision Full time

£75-90K (£94-113K full time equivalent)

4-Day work week - 28 hours per week, not just 5 days crammed into 4

Flexible hours - work to your schedule

Hybrid working - remote and in-office

Inclusive environment - a place where everyone's voice is heard and valued

Opportunity for growth - learn and grow with us as we expand

Equity available

28 days of holiday + bank holidays

Based in Shoreditch, London, UK

We celebrate diversity and data privacy


** Please send a brief cover letter and CV to hello@auravision.ai to be shortlisted **


Aura Vision is looking for a Lead Backend Engineer to further develop and maintain our already highly scalable In-store Analytics solution for our beautiful enterprise retail clients, including; O2 Retail, Adidas, Sports Direct, Gymshark, Paddy Power and many more.


We're looking for someone with an excellent understanding of Redshift, Postgres, SQL, AWS and some JavaScript to maintain and build on our existing technology stack that ingests 20M IoT events every day and rapidly summarises billions of data points across our Analytics Dashboard, Email Reports and APIs.


The infrastructure is already built for scale, so you’ll be in charge of learning how it works, ensuring its on-going performance and building new features on top of it. You’ll be working closely with our CTO and front-end developer to develop the back-end database and API hosted on AWS. You’ll also be consulting with our experienced team of technical and non-technical Account Managers and Support Engineers, as well as our CEO. We’ll problem solve together to develop a best-in-class service for our team and clients.


This is an ideal role for someone who is passionate about developing their career in large scale data analytics and is excited to progress towards a Head of Engineering role.


Aura Vision is a small startup with big customers. We ethically monitor how customers use physical retail stores across the world using our unique AI and in-store CCTV cameras. Billions of data points are processed and distilled down to useful information to help our retail clients increase sales and operational efficiency, while absolutely preserving anonymity of both staff and customers. We’re also proud to be backed by Y Combinator (US), Wayra (UK), and to be partnered with Virgin Media O2’s UK business team.


Must haves:

  • Strong experience designing and managing complex OLAP databases that ingest and query high volumes of data
  • Strong experience with Redshift, Postgres, SQL and AWS
  • Some experience with JavaScript and front-end technologies
  • Experience working in a startup environment
  • Experience working alongside corporate clients and enterprise projects
  • Great interpersonal communication skills over email and video calls
  • Experience building new processes
  • A genuine interest to learn
  • Ability to independently recognise issues and fix them
  • Availability to visit our London-based office at least once a week
  • UK tax resident


Nice to haves, but not required:

  • Experience with in-store analytics solutions
  • Experience working with analytics or data platforms
  • Knowledge of retail and experience working with retailers


A few other reasons we think you’ll love joining the Aura Vision team:

Your preferred personal laptop and remote working setup provided

Access to 60+ FORA co-working spaces across London

Monthly socials around London

Well connected business network

We track performance goals and won’t micromanage your time

Flexible start date


The interview process:

  • Send a brief cover letter and your CV to hello@auravision.ai explaining why you think we're right for you, confirming you have the right to work in the UK, and that you are a UK tax resident. Please include any professional/personal projects you're particularly proud of.
  • If you’re a good fit we'll schedule a 15-20 minute video call to get to know each other.
  • If you’re shortlisted we’ll invite you to our Shoreditch office for a technical and non-technical in-person interview with Jaime (our CTO) and Daniel (our CEO). We'll discuss your experience in more detail and hopefully you’ll have some questions for us too.
  • We aim to make a decision within one week of the in-person interview. You’ll have the opportunity to meet the wider team and start as soon as possible.


We are growing a diverse, inclusive and respectful crowd whom we’re extremely proud to work with. All applications are very much welcome. We encourage anyone who feels like they may not meet all of the “Nice to haves” above to apply anyway, provided you meet all the “Must haves”. If you would benefit from any accommodations during the application process, please reach out to hello@auravision.ai. We are committed to meeting your needs and ensuring a smooth and inclusive experience. Also, as attention to detail is very important, anyone applying who says the word 'penguin' in their opening message will go to the top of the pile.

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