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About the Role
You’ll join a tight founding engineering team and own core backend systems powering the product:
Design and build backend services and APIs that power AI-driven automations.
Work across Python / TypeScript microservices (or similar) to ship new features end-to-end.
Integrate with third-party tools (CRMs, ticketing, chat, internal systems) to capture workflows and events.
Shape and evolve the data model, permissions, and reliability of the platform as customer usage grows.
Collaborate directly with customers and founders: understand their processes, then translate them into robust backend systems.
This is a true product-focused backend role: close to users, lots of ownership, and real impact on what gets built.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
Design, implement and maintain REST/GraphQL APIs and background workers.
Model and query data in PostgreSQL / relational databases at scale.
Build integrations and internal tools that let users visualise and trust the automations they create.
Write clean, well-tested code, ship via modern CI/CD, and improve observability (metrics, logs, tracing).
Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews and occasional on-call for the services you own.
Requirements
Location: London or New York (hybrid)Compensation: Competitive salary + meaningful equity
Role: Backend Software Engineer / Backend Developer (AI)
You’ll join a tight founding engineering team and own core backend systems powering the product:
Design and build backend services and APIs that power AI-driven automations.
Work across Python / TypeScript microservices (or similar) to ship new features end-to-end.
Integrate with third-party tools (CRMs, ticketing, chat, internal systems) to capture workflows and events.
Shape and evolve the data model, permissions, and reliability of the platform as customer usage grows.
Collaborate directly with customers and founders: understand their processes, then translate them into robust backend systems.
This is a true product-focused backend role: close to users, lots of ownership, and real impact on what gets built.
What You’ll Do Day-to-Day
Design, implement and maintain REST/GraphQL APIs and background workers.
Model and query data in PostgreSQL / relational databases at scale.
Build integrations and internal tools that let users visualise and trust the automations they create.
Write clean, well-tested code, ship via modern CI/CD, and improve observability (metrics, logs, tracing).
Participate in technical design reviews, code reviews and occasional on-call for the services you own.
Ideal Experience
You don’t have to tick every box, but you should recognise yourself in most of these:
3–7 years as a Backend Engineer / Backend Software Engineer.
Strong experience with Python (FastAPI/Django/Flask) or TypeScript/Node.js in production.
Solid grounding in distributed systems, APIs, and event-driven architectures.
Comfortable working with SQL databases (PostgreSQL or similar) and designing clean schemas.
Experience in a startup or high-growth product team, owning features from idea to production.
Enjoy talking to users, understanding their workflows, and shipping pragmatic solutions quickly.
Nice-to-Have
Background building B2B SaaS products or internal tools.
Experience integrating with common business tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zendesk, Slack, etc.).
Exposure to LLMs or applied machine learning in a product context (no research background required).
Why This Backend Engineer Role is Interesting
Impact: Early engineer shaping the core backend of an AI automation platform.
Variety: Mix of greenfield backend work, data modelling, systems design and product thinking.
Growth: Direct access to founders, complex problems, and a clear path to senior/staff scope as the team grows.
Upside: Competitive salary and equity in a company backed by strong investors.
About the Company
We’re partnering with a seed-stage AI automation startup building software that learns how teams work and turns that knowledge into smart, repeatable workflows. The product connects to tools your customers already use, ingests their processes and data, and lets them automate complex tasks instead of doing them manually.
They’re small, well-funded, and hiring a Backend Engineer as one of the early technical hires.