Backend Engineer

A fast-scaling, AI-enabled property technology business is hiring a Back End Engineer to help build the next generation of products powering a rapidly growing platform. Backed by significant funding and scaling quickly through acquisition and technology, the business is using AI and automation to modernise a fragmented industry at scale. This role is not about maintaining legacy systems or working through endless tickets. It is for someone who thrives in fast-moving engineering environments and already uses modern AI-assisted development workflows as part of how they build software. Role: Backend Engineer - Python/AWS Salary: £85,000-£100,000 Location: Hybrid (London/remote) What you’ll be doing: Build and scale modern Backend applications using Python (FastAPI)Work closely with product, design and engineering teams to deliver new platform capabilitiesOperate in a highly iterative, AI-enabled engineering environmentUse agentic development workflows and AI tooling to accelerate delivery and improve output.Contribute to Backend architecture, component systems and overall engineering standardsCollaborate with Frontend engineers working across React and modern infrastructure toolingHelp shape engineering processes within a fast-scaling technology business What you’ll need: Strong commercial experience with Python and FastAPI experience is essentialExperience within high-performance scaleups or fast-growth product businessesHands-on experience using AI-assisted or agentic development workflows as part of your day-to-day engineering process. Claude, Cursor etcStrong product mindset with the ability to move quickly and operate autonomouslyExperience working closely with modern Frontend environments is beneficialExposure to React is advantageousComfortable operating in high-ownership engineering cultures This role would suit someone coming from a high-growth scaleup environment who enjoys modern engineering workflows, operates with high autonomy and wants to help build a category-defining platform.