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🚨 Software Engineer – Backend, DevOps & Applied AI
📍 London – Onsite
I’m working with an early-stage AI company building the workforce coordination platform for critical infrastructure.
Their technology brings fragmented operational data into one real-time system, helping teams predict disruption, coordinate people and keep complex operations running on time.
This is a high-ownership Software Engineer opportunity for someone with roughly 2–3 years of experience who has already shipped real software to production and wants significantly more responsibility than they would receive inside a large organisation.
You’ll work across:
💻 Building production-grade backend systems using Python and TypeScript
⚙️ Developing reliable, event-driven infrastructure for real-time operational workflows
☁️ Owning cloud infrastructure, deployments, observability and production reliability
🤖 Applying ML and AI to complex coordination and decision-making problems
📊 Turning fragmented customer data into reliable, actionable operational intelligence
🚀 Taking projects from an ambiguous problem through architecture, implementation, testing and production deployment
🤝 Working directly with founders and customers to understand operational challenges and ship practical solutions quickly
✈️ Travelling approximately one week per month as engineers gradually take ownership of customer deployments from the founders
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Requirements:
✅ Approximately 2–3 years of professional software engineering experience
✅ Strong hands-on ability with Python and/or TypeScript
✅ Experience building backend services, infrastructure, deployment systems or applied ML products
✅ Evidence of personally shipping software into production and operating it safely
✅ Strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to reason critically about unfamiliar problems
✅ Comfort balancing backend development, deployments and live customer feedback simultaneously
✅ High emotional intelligence and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and operational stakeholders
✅ Genuine enthusiasm for an intense, fast-moving startup where responsibility extends beyond a narrow job description
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⭐ Applied AI, customer-facing infrastructure or forward-deployed engineering experience is highly valuable
⭐ A strong academic background or experience within a high-calibre engineering organisation is advantageous
They are looking for a curious, competitive and emotionally intelligent engineer who can move between code, infrastructure and customer problems without waiting for someone else to define every step.
You’ll join a small, ambitious team building AI systems for operational environments where reliability and real-world outcomes matter. It is an opportunity to take meaningful ownership early, work closely with the founders and help shape both the product and the engineering culture.
💰 £120k-£150k base salary + founding equity
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