Senior Backend Engineer (Darwin)

V7; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their dynamic team. This role involves working with cutting-edge AI technologies and billions of training data images to develop and enhance backend services. You will have the opportunity to design and orchestrate solutions that enable seamless integration between web applications and AI systems. With a strong focus on functional programming and infrastructure management, this position promises exciting challenges and the chance to contribute to impactful projects. If you are passionate about AI and backend development, this role offers a vibrant environment for growth and innovation.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Dental Care

Pension Contribution

Learning and Development Budget

Apple MacBook

Wellbeing Budget

Enhanced Parental Leave

30 Days Holiday

Company Retreats

Remote Work Flexibility

Qualifications

• Strong portfolio of projects in backend development.
• Experience in building scalable backend services.

Responsibilities

• Design and orchestrate backend services for AI model training.
• Optimize data flow and enhance visibility for AI features.

Skills

Elixir

Functional Programming

AWS

Infrastructure Management

RabbitMQ

Docker

Architectural Design

Machine Learning

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

Tools

Postgres

Terraform

Job description

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V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin.

V7 were recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

Take a tour of our product in 90 seconds here**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-DMAN8gbjk**

Or watch the recent keynote of V7 Go’s launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hit-RogJKvg

About The Role (Senior Backend Engineer)

We work with billions of training data images to leverage some of the world's most complex and general purpose AI models. Our back-end development is world-class and not short of challenges.

Team’s mission: Design, build and orchestrate backend services that enable our customers to train and leverage AI models in an elegant and performant way.

Technologies we use: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS

What You’ll Do (Senior Backend Engineer)

• Join the team in building solutions to speed up the time to complete annotations tasks
• Be the go to backend engineer in the team responsible for the data flow of the AI features, both from a codebase point of view and infrastructural one
• Take ownership of backend tasks related to our model training and inference systems, focusing on enhancing visibility and minimizing costs
• Upgrade/Redesign our autoscaling system for model interference
• Facilitate seamless integration between V7's web application and our AI system, serving as the crucial link to optimize our system for labeller’s speed
• Employ orchestration techniques to oversee backend tasks and jobs, guaranteeing that the models provided to customers are sufficiently resourced for efficient operation.
  
  
  

Who You Are (Senior Backend Engineer)

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field with a strong portfolio of projects.
• A backend engineer with strong architectural design skills
• Expertise in functional programming, with working experience using Elixir
• A strong interest in ML and applying AI to solve problems
• Infrastructure management experience at scale; you should be comfortable in using AWS and terraform
• Proficiency in queue management and observability, utilizing RabbitMQ as our primary tool.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Docker
• Fluent in English
  
  
  

What's the interview process: 1st Hiring Manager Interview, 2nd Take Home Challenge, 3rd collaborative technical zoom interview , 4th Co-Founder Values interview

What's in it for you?

• London salary: £90k-£130k
• Remote/EU salary: £80k-£120k
• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme
• Private Healthcare & dental care via Bupa for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK
• Pension contribution through Nest
• £800 Learning and Development budget
• Apple MacBook suitable for your role
• Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• 30 days holiday, plus an additional day for every year of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top
• 4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations
• Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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