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.
Requirements
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.
About the Company
We’re partnered with a developer tools startup building a high-performance JavaScript runtime and tooling stack. They’re looking for a Systems Engineering Manager to lead a team working on low-level runtime internals, compilers, and developer tooling – all in a modern systems language stack.
This is a hands-on leadership role: you’ll manage and mentor engineers and dive into technical problems yourself.

