Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A founding backend engineer is sought to take end-to-end ownership of a core platform supporting real-time operational workflows. The role tackles demanding distributed-system problems such as concurrency, exactly-once effects and multi-tenancy, while shaping engineering standards, observability, validation processes and technical hiring.
Highlights
Founding-level backend ownership with substantial influence over engineering standards, architecture, observability, validation and technical hiring, alongside exposure to challenging distributed and real-time systems.
Description
Founding Backend Engineer
Agile Venture-Backed Startup
Up to £100,000 + benefits
The Company
• My client builds the real-time operational brain for critical infrastructure, transportation, and aviation turnaround logistics.
• Replaces static spreadsheets, radio chatter, and paper manifests with stateful, dynamic execution engines.
• Operates a domain-independent platform managing reactive event loops and forward scheduling at scale.
• Backed by top venture capital with dual hubs in London and San Francisco.
Why Join?
• Complete ownership of the core backend platform (Maestro) serving critical real-time operations globally.
• Solve hard distributed system challenges: exactly-once effects, concurrent write resolution, and multi-tenancy.
• Founding-level impact: shape backend engineering standards, observability, staging validation, and technical hiring.
• Direct field exposure: spend time on airport ramps observing how live operations interact with your code.
The Role
A technical, hands-on role where you will:
• Build stateful microservices, event-driven ingestion pipelines, and state machines in Python and PostgreSQL.
• Design multi-tenant architecture enabling seamless onboarding of new sites and customers through configuration.
• Ensure sub-second bounded read latency, fault-tolerant execution, and zero-downtime production deployments.
• Interface third-party operational feeds, legacy channels, and communication streams into a unified data schema.
• Define robust TypeScript API contracts consumed by the frontend and establish testing/on-call standards on AWS.
• Work directly on-site with live operational staff to fold real-world feedback into platform capabilities.
The Essential Requirements
• 3+ years of production backend software engineering experience using Python.
• Strong relational database modeling expertise in PostgreSQL, covering concurrency, locks, and idempotency.
• Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, state machines, and AWS cloud environments.
• London-based location with full eligibility to work in the United Kingdom.
What Will Make You Stand Out
• Experience architecting multi-tenant B2B SaaS platforms at scale.
• Background building integrations against legacy third-party operational or logistics data feeds.
• Founding engineer mindset with a passion for direct customer contact and field-level operational discovery.
No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race, religion or belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sexual orientation, gender, and/or gender reassignment, and we confirm that we are happy to accept applications from anyone for this role.
Attis Global Ltd operates as an employment agency and employment business.
More information can be found at attisglobal.com.
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