Backend Engineer

Miro Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in London is looking for a Backend Engineer to build and maintain AI capabilities. You will design services for model training and contribute to the technical strategy of the AI platform. Ideal candidates have 4+ years of backend engineering experience and are familiar with Python, Java, or Kotlin. Competitive equity package and health insurance provided.

Benefits

Competitive equity package

Health insurance for family

Lunch and snacks provided

Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance

Annual learning and development allowance

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Python, Java or Kotlin in production environments.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable services.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services that support model training, inference, and experimentation.
• Build scalable data pipelines to power AI insights and quality improvements.
• Help shape and drive technical strategy for Miro's AI platform.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

Java

Kotlin

ML Ops

Collaborative problem-solving

Job description

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer in our AI Platform team, you’ll play a crucial role in building and scaling the core that powers AI across Miro. You will help lay the technical foundation for how Miro builds, deploys, and serves AI/ML capabilities—supporting tens of millions of users as we evolve into an increasingly intelligent product. You’ll work on internal tools that empower teams to experiment with and ship AI features quickly and responsibly, and data pipelines for AI use cases. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how AI is built and adopted across the company.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services that support model training, inference, and experimentation
• Develop tooling that improves reliability, reproducibility, and speed of AI development and deployment across Miro
• Contribute to system architecture and infrastructure choices with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Build scalable and efficient data pipelines to power AI insights and quality improvements
• Help shape and drive technical strategy for Miro’s AI platform
• Maintain high code quality through testing, code reviews, and automation

What you’ll need

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong experience with Python, Java or Kotlin in production environments
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable services
• Familiarity with modern AI providers (AWS Bedrock, Open AI, Anthropic, etc)
• Proficiency in modern development practices (CI/CD, observability, test automation)
• A passion for building tooling that accelerates innovation
• Strong ownership mindset and collaborative approach to problem-solving
• Experience with ML Ops
• Experience working in a product-led company or supporting AI in end-user features
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts such as model training, validation, and evaluation metrics

What’s in it for you

• Competitive equity package
• Health insurance for you and your family
• Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
• Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
• Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team

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About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 100M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

Application and Hiring Process

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02. Hiring Manager

The hiring manager will meet to discuss your experience and fit for the role by assessing whether you align with the Miro Mindset (Curiosity, Drive, Resilience, Empathy, Cognitive Agility & Accountability). This interview usually takes 90-120 minutes.

03. Skill Assessment

An interactive presentation to see your skills in action, based around a particular case study or business problem.

04. Meet the Team

Here you will meet cross-functional stakeholders, and we will ask evidence-based questions to evaluate how well you align with the role and Miro's values and culture. Meet a member of the leadership team to discuss Miro’s company values and share your vision for success at Miro.