Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
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Senior / Staff Backend Engineer
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] - London Area, United Kingdom
Hybrid - Full-time - Mid-Senior level
Salary: Not specified
About [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
At [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal], we’re on a mission to transform how private capital firms source, analyse, and win deals. Our AI operating system accelerates due diligence, unlocks deeper insights, and helps funds focus on what matters — creating value. We’re lean, ambitious, and obsessed with building a category-defining company. In just 12 months, we’ve grown ARR by 15x, achieved product–market fit with leading multi-billion-dollar PE firms, and expanded across the US, UK, and Europe. Backed by top VCs and senior PE execs from Warburg Pincus, KKR, and Goldman Sachs, we’re just getting started.
The Role
A senior backend engineer at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is expected to own projects and features from conception to production, building the infrastructure and services that underpin our AI platform. Key responsibilities include:
- Improving our agent's capabilities - design and implement new features that endow our agent with human-level investment expertise.
- Building scalable data pipelines - design and implement systems that ingest, process, and index large volumes of documents and financial data.
- Developing robust APIs and services - create performant, reliable backend services that power our platform.
- Improving connectivity - integrate and incorporate additional data sources into our agent loop, increasing the depth and breadth of the analyses that can be performed.
- Maintaining high code quality - uphold rigorous standards across our codebase, ensuring tech debt doesn't impede our velocity.
Recent projects include: agentic assistant, scalable document ingestion pipeline, streaming-first agent framework, AI-assisted document editor.
Apply if
You’ll likely be a great fit if most of the following describe you:
- You have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer in a venture backed startup or top tech firm.
- You have taken entire products or features from ideation to production and measured their impact.
- You have experience with technologies like Python, FastAPI, Postgres, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Redis, message queues, distributed systems.
- You enjoy diving deep into the domain and focusing on delivering value.
- You thrive in a fast paced environment.
Additional Perks
- Private healthcare insurance.
- One month per year remote working.
- Budget for setting up your Home-Office.
- Generous referral scheme (£10k per hired referral).