Remote AI Backend Engineer — Production ML & APIs

Spendesk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible on-site and remote policy

Latest Apple equipment

Moka.care

Great office snacks

Positive team to work with daily

Job summary

Spendesk is seeking a Backend Software Engineer (IC3) to join the AI & Data Products squad in London. You will design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and workflows that enable AI-powered features across Spendesk’s product with reliability and observability.

You will work with ML Engineers and product teams to productionize predictive logic, expose it via robust APIs, and ship scalable backend capabilities that automate tasks and improve decision making for users.

Qualifications

• Significant backend software engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong track record shipping reliable backend services with measurable impact.
• Experience designing APIs and service layers for complex product workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate backend services powering AI-driven features.
• Translate AI outputs into reliable backend behavior for product flows.
• Ensure latency, reliability, and security with production-grade patterns.
• Collaborate with ML Engineers and product teams to productionize models.

Skills

Backend engineering

API design

TypeScript / Node.js

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

Redis

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Spendesk is seeking a Backend Software Engineer (IC3) to join the AI & Data Products squad in London. You will design, build, and operate backend services, APIs, and workflows that enable AI-powered features across Spendesk’s product with reliability and observability.

You will work with ML Engineers and product teams to productionize predictive logic, expose it via robust APIs, and ship scalable backend capabilities that automate tasks and improve decision making for users.