Senior Backend Engineer - Python

Harnham ,
London, Greater London
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £60,000 per annum

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer London £60,000 - 80,000 Equity (Valued between £10,000 and £50,000) This highly prestigious start-up has found a very niche gap in the market and are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help them build an automation platform incorporating the use of AI and machine learning techniques. This platform will ultimately save 100's of man hours and billions of dollars, making it a very attractive piece of software. This company is already being funding by a global bank and supply chain specialist. This opportunity is rare and will give you the chance to work within a vastly growing start-up, work with an incredible team with a combination of trade banking, prior start-up experience and a strong academic background from Imperial, Harvard and Cambridge universities, and an evolving role as they scale-up. THE COMPANY: With academic backgrounds across Harvard, Cambridge and Imperial, the talented co-founders have spotted a gap in the shipping market and are building an automation platform using AI and machine learning techniques, looking to save companies billions of dollars. They have also just raised their seed round from leading UK investors (Zoopla, Betfair, Shazam etc). THE ROLE: Your role working as a Senior Backend Engineer will involve: · Building the software for their Machine Learning product · Build and maintain their cloud infrastructure · Design, build and implement scalable API's · Lead the enhancement of their platform. · Designing, building and maintaining their database systems · Implement effective CI/CD pipelines · Manage and maintain the technical stack · Architect and implement software libraries in a multi-cloud environment YOUR SKILLS & EXPERIENCE: What your role as a Senior Backend Engineer will require: · Strong software engineering background building high performance, scalable software in Python · A strong understanding of modern, cloud-native architectures · Extensive experience with PostgreSQL · Experience building scalable APIs using Python · Experience building asynchronous and distributed data pipelines · Have experience with distributed streaming platforms · DevOps exposure THE BENEFITS: The salary for your role as a Senior Backend Engineer is between £60,000-80,000. Along with this salary, the company is offering equity valued between £10,000 - £50,000 HOW TO APPLY: Please register your interest by sending your CV to Jessica Boss via the Apply link on this page