Lead Backend Engineer — Global AI Marketplace (Equity)

ALFA AI GmbH; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Work-life balance

Job summary

ALFA AI GmbH in London is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design a global, agentic-first platform for moving and home life. The role demands ownership to build foundations for a scalable, live-voice capable marketplace.

You will shape latency budgets, ensure observability, and move live systems to a modern stack with robust data contracts and idempotent operations. UK right to work is required.

Qualifications

• Experience architecting real systems end to end in production.
• Strong in TypeScript and scalable backend design.
• Familiarity with latency-sensitive live systems and observability.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a global, agentic-first backend platform for live voice with sub-second reads.
• Architect state machines, data contracts, queues, and infrastructure for scalable operation.
• Ensure secure, auditable, and maintainable systems with clear rollback and observability.

Skills

TypeScript

System design

Backend architecture

Job description

ALFA AI GmbH in London is seeking a Lead Backend Engineer to design a global, agentic-first platform for moving and home life. The role demands ownership to build foundations for a scalable, live-voice capable marketplace.

You will shape latency budgets, ensure observability, and move live systems to a modern stack with robust data contracts and idempotent operations. UK right to work is required.