Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven Finance Platform

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

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.