Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Distributed Systems (Remote)

Client Server; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible remote/hybrid

Dog-friendly office North London

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help build a high-scale distributed messaging platform. You'll work with Go or Node.js to design and implement core services powering real-time infrastructure.

In an AI-first engineering environment, you will own architecture and code quality, optimize performance, and collaborate with the team across low-latency messaging and streaming systems.

Qualifications

• Backend development experience with Go, Node.js, or similar.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems and messaging platforms.
• Understanding of scalability, concurrency, and fault-tolerant design.
• Willingness to work autonomously in a fast-paced environment.
• Familiarity with Pub/Sub, Kafka, RabbitMQ, or streaming tech is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform capabilities for a real-time messaging system.
• Improve performance and reliability of distributed systems.
• Collaborate on low-latency messaging, state synchronization, and AI-driven infrastructure.
• Own architecture and code quality.

Skills

Go

Node.js

Distributed systems

Performance tuning

Autonomous work

AI tools

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

NATS

Pub/Sub

Cloud infrastructure

Job description

Client Server is seeking a Backend Software Engineer to help build a high-scale distributed messaging platform. You'll work with Go or Node.js to design and implement core services powering real-time infrastructure.

In an AI-first engineering environment, you will own architecture and code quality, optimize performance, and collaborate with the team across low-latency messaging and streaming systems.