Lead Python Engineer — Remote AI/ML Backend Platform

Mimica; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Remote-first environment

Laptop + stipend for setup

Learning budget

Parental leave

Health & retirement benefits

Annual workaways & socials

Job summary

Mimica is hiring senior backend engineers to lead Python-focused work across a scalable ML-focused platform. You will design, implement, and operate critical backend systems interfacing with ML models, mentor teammates, and drive architecture decisions in a fully remote, UK/EU/AMER-friendly setup.

You will join a senior+ team, contribute to observability, performance, and reliability, and collaborate with data scientists while shaping the engineering culture.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience and above as a Software Engineer, and previous Lead/Staff/Principal level of responsibilities.
• Strong proficiency with Python and Backend-Engineering
• Strong experience with async/concurrent programming
• Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment and monitoring
• Strong skills in building maintainable tests
• Strong experience with observability and tracing.
• Knowledge of best practices for performance optimisation, memory management.
• Experience mentoring others, especially in good software development practices, patterns, and fundamentals.
• Drive to continually develop your skills, improve team processes and reduce technical debt.
• Fluency in English and ability to effectively communicate abstract ideas, complex concepts and trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Write Python applications that are resilient, robust, and integrate well with other apps in a service architecture.
• Mentor others in writing code that is intuitive, clear, and easy to test.
• Develop observability for ML applications and GenAI/LLM integrations using Grafana Stack.
• Develop integrations and services that communicate with Google Services.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers throughout productionising models.
• Respond to incidents regarding ML applications and triage resource issues.
• Document procedures and guides to facilitate knowledge sharing and teammate growth.
• Participate in hiring and onboarding new team members and take on project-management responsibilities.

Skills

Python

Backend-Engineering

Async programming

Observability

Testing

Mentoring

System architecture

Communication

Tools

GCP

Google Services

Job description

Mimica is hiring senior backend engineers to lead Python-focused work across a scalable ML-focused platform. You will design, implement, and operate critical backend systems interfacing with ML models, mentor teammates, and drive architecture decisions in a fully remote, UK/EU/AMER-friendly setup.

You will join a senior+ team, contribute to observability, performance, and reliability, and collaborate with data scientists while shaping the engineering culture.