Backend Engineer - AI

🚀 Backend Engineer – AI 📍 London (Onsite) 💰 £90K–£130K + Equity We’re partnered with a fast-growing AI company building a next-generation video intelligence platform combining computer vision, multimodal AI and real-time data. They’re growing a small, high-calibre engineering team and looking for a Backend Engineer to take significant ownership over the systems powering the core product. This is an early-stage environment where you'll work closely with founders and senior engineers, influence architecture and build systems from the ground up. What You’ll Be Doing 👇 Build and own scalable backend services and APIsDesign systems processing real-time video and sensor dataShip AI-powered features including multimodal search and agentic workflowsBuild integrations between product, ML pipelines and edge devicesSolve distributed systems, performance and reliability problemsInfluence architecture and technical direction as the platform scales What They’re Looking For 🧠 Strong backend engineering experience with Go, Python or C++Experience designing scalable APIs and distributed systemsStrong systems and software engineering fundamentalsComfortable with cloud-native environmentsStartup/scale-up experience or evidence of building things from scratchHigh ownership and strong product instincts Tech ⚙️ Go • Python • C++ • AWS • Kubernetes • Pulumi • AI / Computer Vision Why It’s Interesting 💡 Join a small engineering team with founding-level influenceBuild core systems rather than maintaining mature infrastructureWork directly alongside AI, product and infrastructure engineersReal-world AI operating at significant scaleStrong funding, commercial traction and meaningful equity