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Senior Backend Engineer (AI-Augmented)
Location: London, Hybrid
Salary: Up to £100,000 + Discretionary Bonus
We're working with a well-funded, founder-led startup in the sports-tech space. The co-founders are domain insiders backed by specialists in AI and SaaS, building next-generation intelligent content infrastructure for a fast-moving market. Small team, high trust, and real technical autonomy from day one.
This is a senior backend engineering role for someone with deep engineering foundations who has started to integrate AI tooling into how they work - not as a gimmick, but methodically. You understand where it adds genuine value and where it doesn't.
Responsibilities
- Design and build robust, scalable backend services on a modern cloud-native stack
- Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards across core platform services
- Own your work end-to-end - from design through to production and beyond
- Work at pace in a small, high-trust engineering team with a low-ego culture
- Apply AI tooling thoughtfully as part of your engineering workflow
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Key Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Kafka and event-driven architecture
- Java 21 is the primary backend language - polyglot backgrounds across Node.js, Python or Go welcomed
- Background in distributed systems, high-availability services and scalable backend design
- Senior-level engineering rigour: clean, tested, well-documented code with performance and security in mind
- Practical experience using AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code or similar) - you know when to use it and when not to
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Desirable
- Experience with Flink or Spark streams
- AWS, Terraform or cloud-native infrastructure experience
- Domain experience in sports tech, live event data or real-time data pipelines
Details
- Up to £100,000 + discretionary bonus
- Hybrid - London, 2-3 days in office
A strong opportunity for a senior engineer who wants genuine ownership, meaningful technical challenge, and the space to do their best work without layers of process getting in the way.
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