Senior Backend Engineer, AI Agents Platform

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services powering AI agent orchestration and deployment in production. You will work on scalable APIs, memory/state management, and long-running workflows.

Based in London with a hybrid in-office model (minimum 2 days/week), you will collaborate with product, research, and platform teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale and drive technical excellence across the

Qualifications

• Extensive backend experience with Go, Python or Rust.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience operating production services at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and container tech (Docker, Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services powering AI agent orchestration.
• Develop scalable APIs and tool execution/workflows.
• Ensure reliability and observability of long-running workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship features.
• Drive software quality through testing and CD.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Lightning AI, the company behind PyTorch Lightning, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and build backend services powering AI agent orchestration and deployment in production. You will work on scalable APIs, memory/state management, and long-running workflows.

Based in London with a hybrid in-office model (minimum 2 days/week), you will collaborate with product, research, and platform teams to deliver reliable, observable systems at scale and drive technical excellence across the