Global Backend Architect for AI-Driven Home Platform

We Love Alfa; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

We Love Alfa is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to architect a global, agentic-first platform for moving and home life. You will own the backend architecture, ensuring sub-second reads, high reliability, and an API-driven system that serves letting agents, CRMs, and partners.

The role is London-based with a few days per week in the office. Cash competitive pay plus equity is offered, with a focus on AI-native engineering and scalable systems for millions of users.

Qualifications

• You're a systems thinker first.
• You've architected real systems end to end, more than once.
• You're AI-native at the frontier.
• Strong in TypeScript and production-grade coding.

Responsibilities

• Architect the platform end-to-end.
• Ensure sub-second latency and reliability.
• Treat agents as first-class customers during design and delivery.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

FastAPI

AWS

Systems thinking

Tools

Next.js

Claude Code

AWS

Job description

We Love Alfa is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to architect a global, agentic-first platform for moving and home life. You will own the backend architecture, ensuring sub-second reads, high reliability, and an API-driven system that serves letting agents, CRMs, and partners.

The role is London-based with a few days per week in the office. Cash competitive pay plus equity is offered, with a focus on AI-native engineering and scalable systems for millions of users.