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Senior / Staff Backend Engineer | London | Hybrid | £120k–£140k + meaningful equity
Does this sound like you?
“I'm a backend engineer who likes joining early, taking ownership and working out how a product should be built before all the big technical decisions have already been made.”
If so, this is an opportunity to become the first dedicated backend hire at a startup trying to change how people search for property - an experience that has barely changed in 20 years.
They're building a video-first property discovery app. Instead of searching through listings and photo galleries, users swipe through video walkthroughs, with the product learning what they like and showing them more relevant homes.
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£2m seed raised. Apps launching this month. London launch in January.
What you'll own
- Build the backend foundations the product can grow on.
- Build the systems behind the personalised property feed.
- Turn customer behaviour into better recommendations.
- Decide how data is stored, processed, and served.
- Keep the backend fast, reliable, and affordable as usage grows.
- Set the foundations for the backend engineers who join after you.
The backend is deliberately simple today:
- TypeScript
- Postgres + Supabase
- Deno
- Cloudflare Workers + R2
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You'll decide what stays, what changes, and when.
You should have
- Built and scaled backend systems in production.
- Strong database and data modelling fundamentals.
- Made significant technical/architecture decisions.
- Dealt with growing users, data, traffic, and performance demands.
- Good judgement about when to keep things simple vs rebuild.
You don't need recommendation-system experience. Strong backend and data experience matters more.
£120k–£140k + meaningful equity
- Central London
- Hybrid
- 3 days/week
Interviews throughout October. They'll move quickly.
Apply or email reuben@techmunity.io
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