Product Engineer (Backend)

V7; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a skilled Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies, enabling the processing of multimodal data at scale and maintaining robust APIs for clients. With a strong focus on collaboration and product challenges, you will influence the company's future while enjoying a flexible hybrid work environment. The company is recognized as a top startup in the UK, providing excellent benefits, including equity options, private healthcare, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Top 15% equity options via EMI scheme

Private healthcare through Bupa

30 days paid holiday plus an additional day per year

Learning and Development wallet

Monthly mental health and well-being budget

Personalized benefits platform

Enhanced parental leave policies

Quarterly retreats in scenic locations

Work-from-anywhere for one month annually

Apple hardware and home office budget

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with strong architectural skills.
• Experience with functional programming; familiarity with Elixir is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Enable foundation models to process multimodal data at scale.
• Maintain comprehensive APIs for internal and B2B clients.

Skills

Backend Engineering

Functional Programming

AWS

Terraform

Queue Management

Observability

Generative AI

Customer-Centric Mindset

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

Job description

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform enables customers to build no-code AI workflows with V7 Go and leverage expert humans to enhance frontier AI model knowledge through V7 Darwin.

V7 was recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A funding round, including support from the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by leading AI experts such as Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT), Oriol Vinyals (Google DeepMind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai), and AI leadership from Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. Our solutions power AI deployment at Fortune 500 companies including Sony, Boston Scientific, and Genentech.

Take a quick tour of our product in 90 seconds here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-DMAN8gbjk

Watch the recent keynote of V7 Go’s launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hit-RogJKvg

Software Engineers at V7 ensure reliable and efficient execution of complex operations, such as applying foundation models like Gemini Pro for analyzing large financial documents. The Backend Engineer role offers significant influence, shaping the company's future in close collaboration with the founders.

Responsibilities include:

• Enable foundation models to process multimodal data at scale
• Scale our platform to handle challenging multi-tenant usage patterns
• Maintain comprehensive APIs for internal and B2B clients
• Deploy multiple updates daily in collaboration with PMs and designers to solve user problems

Requirements:

• A degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years of experience as a Backend Engineer with strong architectural skills (mid and senior levels in London)
• Experience with functional programming; familiarity with Elixir is a plus, but other languages like Scala, GoLang, Node.js, Haskell, Clojure, F# are also acceptable
• Infrastructure management experience at scale, comfortable with AWS and Terraform
• Proficiency in queue management and observability
• Experience with orchestration tools like Docker
• Knowledge of Generative AI and prompt engineering is a plus
• Enjoy working in small, dynamic teams, especially during early company stages
• Customer-centric mindset with a strong focus on product and technical challenges
• Fluent in English

Benefits include:

• Recognition as LinkedIn’s No 2 top startup in the UK in 2023 and 8th on Sifted’s top 100 fastest-growing UK startups 2024
• Launch of V7 Go in a 1-minute video
• Top 15% equity options via EMI scheme
• Private healthcare through Bupa
• 30 days paid holiday plus an additional day per year of service
• Learning and Development wallet
• Monthly mental health and well-being budget
• Personalized benefits platform via Thanks Ben
• Enhanced parental leave policies
• Quarterly retreats in scenic locations
• Hybrid work with flexible arrangements
• One month of work-from-anywhere annually
• Support for attending conferences like NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR
• Apple hardware and home office budget
• Active commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with opportunities for allies and co-leads in DEI initiatives