Senior Backend Engineer - London

Senior Backend Engineer - London

Full-Time No working from home possible
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About Junior

We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered workflow tools to supercharge investment research for private market investors. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms - Junior already powers hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 40+ based in London, NYC and Sydney. We 10x’d our revenue in 2025.

You can read more about the company mission & values here.

Role Description

You’ll design and build the systems that support our you’ll help build and scale the systems that power our AI-driven research platform along with our commercial, product, and operations teams — automating workflows, improving decision‑making, and enabling the company to move significantly faster.

This is a high‑ownership backend engineering role (~4+ years experience) where you’ll work across data pipelines, integrations, automation, and internal infrastructure.

You’ll have the opportunity to:

  • Architect and scale backend systems that support high‑throughput LLM interactions, vector search, and multi‑agent orchestration.
  • Stitch together AI infrastructure across model providers, data stores, and internal APIs to create cohesive, performant systems.
  • Own the architecture of internal data systems and pipelines
  • Build automation and integrations across product, CRM, and financial systems
  • Help shape engineering culture and internal infrastructure decisions

Example Projects You’ll Work On:

Customer Health Intelligence System

  • Design data pipelines that consolidate product usage, CRM data, and user feedback into a unified system of record.
  • Build automated signals and alerts that detect churn risk, usage drops, or emerging product issues - enabling the team to act quickly.

User Feedback → Product Development Pipeline

  • Build internal tooling that processes feedback calls with users.
  • Use LLMs to extract themes, cluster feature requests, and surface the most important insights to the product team.

Billing & Revenue Infrastructure

  • Design systems to support complex B2B pricing models — combining usage‑based, seat‑based, and platform fees.
  • Automate invoicing, reconciliation, and financial reporting.

Internal Data Platform

  • Build and own our internal data platform, integrating product telemetry, CRM data, and financial systems.
  • Create reliable pipelines and APIs that power reporting, automation, and decision‑making across the company.

About You

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer who enjoys building systems that make a company run better.

You might be a good fit if you:

  • Are based in London and excited to work from our Farringdon office (5 days/week)
  • Have experience owning technical projects end‑to‑end, from architecture through production
  • Enjoy translating business problems into clean technical systems and automation
  • Like building high‑leverage internal platforms that make teams dramatically more efficient
  • Have strong experience with PostgreSQL and modern data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Firebolt, etc.)
  • Write production code in Python, or TypeScript
  • Thrive in fast‑moving startup environments and enjoy shipping quickly while maintaining strong engineering standards

Bonus

  • Experience building AI‑enabled workflows, automation systems, or internal developer platforms.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance
  • Third Space membership
  • Dinner when working late
  • Frequent team offsites (Crete, Upstate NY, Cancun)
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Contact Details:

Junior AI Recruitment Team