Senior Backend Engineer - AI Platform & LLMs (Remote)

Responsibilities

Work in a cross functional development team analysing product feature requests and designing solutions.

Build and maintain backend services with a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and production-readiness.

Integrate AI capabilities into our products by deploying LLM services, orchestrating ML pipelines, and supporting end-to-end model lifecycle in production.    

Take a hands-on approach to shipping high-quality code incrementally — we value learning through iteration over aiming for perfection upfront.

Participate in code reviews and architecture discussions to ensure technical excellence and knowledge sharing.

Work closely with the Product team to shape features that are valuable, feasible, and grounded in users needs.

Collaborate with colleagues across the organisation to ensure vision is delivered.

Assist and mentor junior team members.

Your Profile

• Strong proficiency and at least 5 years of experience in software development, ideally developing SaaS solutions.
• Experience in Python and its ecosystem, especially in the context of backend development and ML systems.
• Experience of working with CI/CD processes and in an agile, product led environment.
• Experience designing distributed services which can communicate in a fault-tolerant manner using both RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Proven experience integrating LLMs into production services (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, or custom fine-tuned models).
• Comfortable with DevOps practices, cloud environments (ideally AWS), and monitoring tools, you own your code in production.
• Product mindset: you think in terms of value to users, not just technical challenges, and you're willing to experiment to find what works.
• You are a deep thinker, you like to innovate, you like to solve problems creatively and quickly, and are passionate about technology and people.
• You thrive in an environment of mutual respect, openness and collaboration. You enjoy getting things done at a quick pace.