Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Platform (Python/AWS)

Clearly Jobs Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Contributory pension scheme

Bonus

Job summary

Clearly Jobs Ltd. is seeking a Backend Engineer to join an early-stage tech business in London, where AI is at the heart of the product. You will own backend development across APIs, data services, and integrations, shaping a product from the ground up and delivering AI-powered capabilities.

You'll collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams, work with Python, FastAPI, Java/Spring, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices, and contribute to scalable, secure, observable systems.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend development experience with API-driven services.
• Proficient in Python and SQL with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS and Linux environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.
• Strong knowledge of API security and testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Build, scale, and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Integrate Java/Spring components with Python AI services.
• Design secure, reliable, high-performance systems.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver backend solutions for production environments.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure on AWS.
• Contribute to observability, testing, and security practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

API design

AWS

Java/Spring

LLM integrations

Observability

Security

Linux

AI tools

Tools

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

CI/CD

AWS services

Linux

Job description

Clearly Jobs Ltd. is seeking a Backend Engineer to join an early-stage tech business in London, where AI is at the heart of the product. You will own backend development across APIs, data services, and integrations, shaping a product from the ground up and delivering AI-powered capabilities.

You'll collaborate with engineering, product, and business teams, work with Python, FastAPI, Java/Spring, AWS, and modern CI/CD practices, and contribute to scalable, secure, observable systems.