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Senior Backend Engineer - VC Backed Gen Ai Startup
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Senior Backend Engineer - remote
Our client, a venture-backed AI product company, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to architect and scale the backend behind its consumer and B2B platforms. The business runs a heavily AWS-centric, serverless architecture and works in an AI-assisted engineering workflow, where AI tooling handles much of the code generation, and the engineer focuses on architecture, direction, review, and ownership.
This is a senior individual contributor role for someone with real engineering depth.
What you'll do
- Own backend engineering and technical decisions across an AWS serverless platform
- Build and ship backend services using an AI-assisted workflow, directing AI tooling, then reviewing, correcting, and integrating what it produces
- Design and operate serverless APIs across Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS (MySQL), DocumentDB/MongoDB, and S3
- Maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS SAM) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions)
- Provide the engineering judgment AI can't, including debugging, performance, security, and data modeling
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What we're looking for:
- Senior backend engineer who can own systems, not just ship features
- Python and/or TypeScript/Node
- Strong AWS serverless and infrastructure skills (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS), the real backbone of the role
- Comfortable across relational and NoSQL data stores
- Fluent working in an AI-assisted or agentic coding workflow, with the judgment to review and trust-but-verify AI-generated code
- A genuine engineer by trade with a track record of building production systems at scale
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Why it's interesting:
- Backend engineering at the center of a fast-moving generative AI product
- Modern, serverless-first AWS stack with no legacy maintenance burden
- A genuinely AI-first engineering culture, with real ownership over architecture and standards as the team scales
Fully remote; must be based in UK or Europe. $120,000 to $150,000 USD base; B2B contract also available.
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