Software Engineer (Backend) (up to £200k)

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The role

This company is building an AI operating system for complex enterprise software environments. They use agentic AI to automate the analysis and documentation work that gates large-scale migrations and modernization efforts. It's a hard problem: mapping programs, tables, and dependencies inside bespoke enterprise systems. Founded by experienced operators from top-tier tech companies, they're already working with leading global enterprises and are backed by leading investors.

You'll join a small, talent-dense backend team. This isn't a ticket-taker role. You'll own significant pieces of the core platform, from large-scale batch job infrastructure to the LLM gateway and enterprise-grade auth/observability. Expect high autonomy and real surface area from day one. The team operates with lean loops and a relentless quality bar. You're here to solve problems end-to-end, not just implement specs.

The work

• Design and build large-scale batch processing infrastructure, handling tens of millions of lines of customer code per tenant.
• Develop and optimize the LLM gateway, managing token throughput, provider failover, and quota across multiple models for real-time and async workloads.
• Own critical platform components like multi-tenant authentication, observability, and security, ensuring enterprise-grade reliability.
• Build internal tooling and APIs that measurably accelerate product development and maintain a high engineering velocity.
• Push the boundaries of the current stack (Kotlin, TypeScript, Azure, Terraform, Temporal, Postgres) to solve complex, evolving technical challenges.

What You Bring

• 3+ years of backend engineering experience, with significant platform or infrastructure ownership in a high-velocity startup environment.
• Proven ability to design and build distributed systems, including large-scale batch processing and queueing, owning problems end-to-end.
• Experience with LLM infrastructure at scale: token routing, provider failover, and managing real-time vs. async patterns.
• A track record of building internal tooling or APIs that demonstrably improved team efficiency, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and multi-tenant security.
• Willingness to work in person with the team in Central London five days a week.

Why apply through Dex

This is a rare backend platform role at a high-growth AI company. These opportunities are often oversubscribed or hard to find. Apply through Dex to cut through the noise, get a full brief on the company and role, and skip the cold application process.

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