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Staff Backend Engineer (Python)


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  • TalentCo
  • London
  • 1 week ago

We are excited to be working with a VC-backed AI-first HRTech scaleup looking to hire an exceptional Staff Backend Engineer into their UK business, to play a pivotal role in building their next generation benefits platform.


Funded by high-profile backers, they continue to invest heavily in their teams in 2024 following their Series B fundraise in 2023, and see now as the perfect time to add more exceptional talent to their already-world-class engineering team.


This hire could be based hybrid out of their London HQ or fully-remote anywhere in the UK - the choice is entirely yours.


As Staff Backend Engineer you will:

  • Play a critical role in shaping, architecting, and implementing their next generation benefits platform, leveraging personalisation, experimentation, and AI/ML methods
  • Apply your expertise in Python and other backend languages to deliver world-class applications as a leader, contributor, and mentor on an agile, cross-functional team
  • Act as the key bridge between data processing and the backend
  • Contribute effectively across the tech stack (backend, data, ML) to routinely deliver user and business impact


We want to hear from you if:

  • You have the mindset and approach of a founding engineer. You love building impactful products from scratch and have done so for at least one early stage startup
  • You have a history of thriving in the ambiguity and uncertainty of nascent projects, and relish the opportunity to shape the future
  • You have 6+ years of professional experience building and architecting customer-facing web applications with a combination of Python and other backend languages like Go, C++, Scala
  • You have plenty of experience crunching data at scale, with expertise in data processing, data pipelines and data flows
  • You have experience with Google Cloud (preferred) or AWS, plus Kubernetes and Kafka ideally
  • You have experience with data engineering / ETL, machine learning, and AI methods
  • You have first-hand knowledge what scale and quality look like in a larger technology company


What do they offer?

  • Salary up to £150,000 / annum
  • Employee stock options
  • 25 days annual leave + public holidays
  • Fully remote or hybrid working model out of their London HQ - the choice is yours
  • Top-tier private health insurance
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Brand new MacBook on your first day
  • Learning and Development budget
  • Pension contribution
  • Regular company-wide events and socials

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