Lead Backend Engineer

4 days ago

London Area, United Kingdom idpp Full time

A fast-paced AI scale-up is expanding, looking for the top talent in AI to join their incredible team. If you are a hands-on talented engineer with a desire to progress, this is definitely the role for you, with the ideal candidate having worked as a founding engineer in a start-up/scale-up.


The role

This is a hands-on role, suitable for an individual who will be working to assist in expanding their already established system to accommodate the increasing user demand. Their technology stack spans various domains, including front-end, backend, and edge computing. Your primary responsibility will revolve around enhancing the backend infrastructure.


This role encompasses the following tasks:

  • Enhancing database performance to keep pace with the rapid growth of our customer base.
  • Suggesting and incorporating new database technologies when necessary.
  • Planning and structuring backend APIs, ensuring the system's scalability and providing comprehensive observability.
  • Preserving the existing backend codebase and system with an emphasis on high uptime and availability.
  • Delivering top-quality features, conducting thorough testing, and debugging any issues that arise.
  • Collaborating with a broader team to implement a variety of product features.


Requirements and experience we are looking for:

  • 3+ years of industry experience and having built systems of reasonable scale.
  • You should be familiar and have experience with the main backend technologies:
  • FastAPI, Python, Docker, Postgres, Redis
  • In particular, you should have experience debugging, scaling, and optimizing API + database solutions as the traffic grows.
  • It would be great if you also have experience with one or more
  • infrastructure-as-code solutions (Pulumi).
  • monitoring (Sentry and Grafana).
  • authentication (Auth0).
  • Any experience with front-end (React), platform engineering (C++), or video streaming is a strong bonus but not required.
  • High intrinsic motivation to succeed and ability to work hard.


What we offer

  • £100-120k base
  • Company equity % in an early-stage start-up.
  • Flexible PTO & Sick Policy
  • 100% company-paid private Dental & Vision insurance


Please note, this job is full-time 5 days a week on-site in London so please only apply if you're able to commit to this.

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