Dex
Senior Backend Engineer (up to £175k)
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The role
This company builds the AI workspace for some of the world's largest banks and regulated financial institutions. They handle sensitive financial data, where compliance with SOC 2, GDPR, and FCA isn't a checkbox, but a core engineering challenge. Backed by leading investors, they've seen rapid growth, following a record-breaking Series A round.
You'll join a lean, senior backend team, reporting directly to the founders. This is a staff-track IC seat with visible influence, not a layer in a larger organisation. You'll architect the core platform, build data pipelines for large-scale financial datasets, and productionise ML models in a highly regulated environment. This role is for an engineer who wants to own critical systems end-to-end, not just contribute to a small component.
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The work
- Architect and scale backend services and APIs that power an enterprise AI workspace processing sensitive financial data.
- Design and build high-performance data pipelines for large-scale financial datasets, ensuring accuracy and low latency.
- Optimise PostgreSQL schemas and queries for high-throughput operations across distributed systems.
- Partner with ML engineers to productionise complex models, integrating them seamlessly into backend systems.
- Lead technical design reviews, mentor junior engineers, and shape the engineering culture as the platform scales.
What You Bring
- 7+ years of backend engineering experience, with a proven track record of building and scaling production systems.
- Expert-level Python and modern web frameworks (FastAPI preferred), demonstrated by shipping production services, not just contributing.
- Deep expertise in PostgreSQL, including query optimisation, indexing, and performance tuning under real load.
- Experience running event-driven architectures with message brokers (e.g., Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka) and task queues (e.g., Celery) at non-trivial throughput.
- Strong security fundamentals (authn/authz, encryption, data handling) and ideally experience shipping inside regulated environments (SOC 2, GDPR, FCA).
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Why apply through Dex
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