Digital Waffle
Backend Engineer (AI, Agent systems)
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We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to build systems bringing intelligence to everyday organisation and workflows.
Our product emphasises high reliability for long‑running tasks, ongoing context, and task execution.
As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and operate production systems that transform model capabilities into fast, stable, observable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.
Role: Backend Engineer (AI, Agent Systems)
Location: UK based remote working
Full Time
Role and responsibilities
- Creating backend systems which operate reliably at scale, handling AI traffic with low latency
- Building APIs that are stable, well‑designed, and integrate seamlessly with frontend systems
- Detecting production issues, diagnostics, and resolving issues quickly, minimising user impact
- Continuously improving our product based on real usage, increasing performance and reliability over time
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Focus Areas
- Backend systems that serve AI‑powered features in production
- Inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around models
- Production operations including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response
- Performance optimisation across latency, throughput, caching, batching, and streaming
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Experience
- Strong backend engineering fundamentals in production environments
- Familiarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal systems)
- Ability to debug distributed systems under load
- A bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating from real production behaviour
Tech Stack:
- Python
- Node.JS
- PyTorch
- LLMs (commercial and open‑source)
- SQL & NoSQL
- Kubernetes
- Docker
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