At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and optimise backend systems for AI-powered features in a dynamic environment.
- Company: Join a cutting-edge AI company focused on real-world applications.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative team culture with a focus on quality and innovation.
- Why this job: Make a tangible impact on AI interactions that shape user experiences.
- Qualifications: Strong backend engineering skills and experience with high-throughput services.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Our client is building AI systems that work in the real world. They need a Backend Engineer who owns the inference and orchestration layer that powers every AI interaction in the product. Your work sits between models and users, where latency, correctness, reliability, and cost directly impact real-world experience.
What You’ll Own
- Backend systems that serve AI‑powered features in production
- Inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models
- Production concerns: monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response
- Latency and throughput optimisation across inference, caching, batching, and streaming
What They’re Looking For
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments
- Experience running high‑throughput, low‑latency services
- Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal)
- Comfortable debugging distributed systems under load
- Bias toward shipping and learning from production behaviour
Technical Stack
- Python, Node.js, PyTorch, OpenAI / Anthropic / OSS LLMs, SQL & NoSQL, Kubernetes, Docker
Environment
Small team. World‑class talent density. Fast decisions, collective ownership, and a relentless focus on shipping quality work. You’ll need to bring structure, exercise judgment, and execute independently.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre‑interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us.
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