Senior Backend Engineer

Product Pulse; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Product Pulse, a private market data platform, seeks a Senior Backend Engineer in London or remote England to build production backend services in Python and drive AI-enabled features for professional investors.

You will own the orchestration layer for agentic AI capabilities, work with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse at scale, and influence architecture while mentoring a growing team in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• 5 to 15 years of backend engineering experience, most of it in Python, in production environments.
• A track record of building and personally owning APIs or services used by real customers.
• Time spent at a startup or scaleup (roughly 30 to 100 people), not exclusively large corporate environments.
• Hands-on experience shipping AI or LLM features to production: agentic workflows, RAG, or tool use.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production backend services and APIs in Python (FastAPI) powering AI features.
• Design and own the orchestration layer for agentic AI capabilities and data retrieval.
• Work directly with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse for fast, reliable data access.
• Take a feature from idea to live in production within the same sprint.
• Mentor teammates and help set engineering standards as the team grows.
• Shape architecture and tooling decisions rather than inheriting old ones.
• Collaborate closely with founders to influence what gets built next.

Skills

Python

API design

Backend systems

SQL

Mentoring

Tools

PostgreSQL

ClickHouse

FastAPI

Job description

Senior Backend Engineer — London or England remote

London, UK · Permanent · Hybrid

Join a team small enough that what you build is what exists, and take agentic AI features from a founder's idea to something hundreds of investment firms rely on to make real capital decisions.

What you'd actually work on

• Building and shipping production backend services and APIs in Python (FastAPI) that power the platform's AI features, used daily by professional investors

• Designing and owning the orchestration layer for agentic AI capabilities: how the system plans, calls tools, and retrieves the right data at the right time

• Working directly with PostgreSQL and ClickHouse to enable fast, reliable data retrieval for AI-driven analysis at real scale

• Taking a feature from a founder's rough idea to something live in production within the same sprint, without layers of process in between

• Mentoring teammates and helping set engineering standards as the team grows from around seven engineers today to over thirty

• Making real calls on architecture and tooling rather than inheriting decisions frozen in place years ago

• Working closely enough with the founders that your technical judgment shapes what gets built next, not just how it gets built
  

Where it gets technically interesting

• Agentic workflows and tool use sit on top of a data platform that has to stay fast and correct under real investor usage, not a demo

• Two different database workloads in the same system: PostgreSQL for transactional data, ClickHouse for the columnar, analytics-heavy queries behind the AI insights

• AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude) are part of the actual day-to-day workflow, not a side experiment

• A genuinely small engineering team means no one else is quietly maintaining the parts you don't touch

• Retrieval and embeddings work that has to hold up against messy, high-stakes private market data rather than clean public datasets
  

What we're looking for

• 5 to 15 years of backend engineering experience, most of it in Python, in production environments

• A track record of building and personally owning APIs or services used by real customers, not just maintaining systems someone else designed

• Time spent at a startup or scaleup (roughly 30 to 100 people), not exclusively large corporate environments

• Hands-on experience shipping AI or LLM features to production: agentic workflows, RAG, or tool use

• Strong SQL and solid experience with PostgreSQL or an equivalent relational database

• A genuine preference for staying hands-on and coding day to day rather than moving toward management

• Based in Europe (outside France and the Nordics); if based in London, comfortable working from the office five days a week

• Bonus: experience with columnar databases (ClickHouse, Redshift, Snowflake) or general DevOps/infrastructure skills
  

The company

An alternative data and private market intelligence platform, giving investors real-time data and AI-driven analysis to make faster, better-informed decisions. Used by hundreds of leading VC and PE firms across Europe and beyond. Small, fast-moving engineering team of around thirty people, still shaped day to day by its founders. Equity participation (ESOP) after six to nine months.

Languages: English (fluent, working language of the team)