Founding Backend Engineer — Python/Django, AI Infra

Pulse Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Group is partnering with an exciting AI-native startup in London that is building a proactive AI Lifestyle Operating System. This hands-on, high-ownership role sits on the founding engineering team to build backend infrastructure with Python, Django and Celery, deploying on GCP and scaling to support elite founders and creatives.

You’ll own features from idea to production, work closely with the CTO, and ship in a small, high-impact team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production backend systems.
• Strong SQL and PostgreSQL knowledge.
• Experience with background processing, ideally Celery.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs or AI infrastructure.
• Cloud-native production experience, ideally GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the backend architecture to scale.
• Own features from idea to production delivery.
• Collaborate with the CTO and product to ship.
• Improve reliability, performance and observability.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices.

Skills

Python

Django

REST APIs

Celery

PostgreSQL

LLM Integrations

GCP

Terraform

CI/CD

RAG

Agent Orchestration

Tools

Celery

Terraform

PostgreSQL

REST APIs

GCP

LLM Integrations

Agent Orchestration

RAG

CI/CD

Job description

Pulse Group is partnering with an exciting AI-native startup in London that is building a proactive AI Lifestyle Operating System. This hands-on, high-ownership role sits on the founding engineering team to build backend infrastructure with Python, Django and Celery, deploying on GCP and scaling to support elite founders and creatives.

You’ll own features from idea to production, work closely with the CTO, and ship in a small, high-impact team.