Senior Backend AI Engineer for Real-Time Analytics

American Bureau of Shipping; Warrington; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading classification society based in Warrington is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join their AI Practice Team. The role involves designing and maintaining distributed systems that support performance and scalability for real-time analytics and data-driven applications. Candidates should have over 8 years of backend development experience, with strong proficiencies in Go and Python. This full-time position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment at the forefront of technology and innovation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend development experience, focusing on high-performance, data-intensive systems.
• 5+ years of experience deploying and operating applications on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.
• Must hold a valid right to work status in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Architect distributed systems by designing and implementing event-driven backends.
• Ensure APIs and data pipelines meet strict SLAs through advanced performance profiling.
• Engineer high-throughput pipelines using Apache Kafka to stream real-time data.

Skills

Proficiency in Go

Proficiency in Python

Event-driven architectures

Real-time streaming

Performance optimization

Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Apache Kafka

Databricks

Job description

A leading classification society based in Warrington is looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to join their AI Practice Team. The role involves designing and maintaining distributed systems that support performance and scalability for real-time analytics and data-driven applications. Candidates should have over 8 years of backend development experience, with strong proficiencies in Go and Python. This full-time position offers the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment at the forefront of technology and innovation.