Backend Engineer — Real-Time AI Systems, Equity

Atarus; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Atarus is seeking a Backend Engineer to take significant ownership of the systems powering our core video intelligence platform. You will join a small, high-calibre team and work close with founders to shape architecture and build from the ground up.

You’ll design and ship scalable backend services in Go, Python, or C++, and collaborate with AI/ML, product and infrastructure engineers to solve real‑world scalability challenges at significant scale.

Qualifications

• Strong backend engineering experience
• Experience designing scalable APIs and distributed systems
• Comfortable with cloud-native environments
• Startup/scale-up experience or evident ability to build from scratch

Responsibilities

• Build and own scalable backend services and APIs
• Design systems processing real-time video and sensor data
• Ship AI-powered features including multimodal search and agentic workflows
• Build integrations between product, ML pipelines and edge devices
• Solve distributed systems, performance and reliability issues
• Influence architecture and technical direction as the platform scales

Skills

Backend engineering (Go/Python/C++)

Job description

Atarus is seeking a Backend Engineer to take significant ownership of the systems powering our core video intelligence platform. You will join a small, high-calibre team and work close with founders to shape architecture and build from the ground up.

You’ll design and ship scalable backend services in Go, Python, or C++, and collaborate with AI/ML, product and infrastructure engineers to solve real‑world scalability challenges at significant scale.