Senior Backend Engineer (Python) — AI-Driven, FastAPI

Digital Waffle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle in London is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and scale APIs and services powering a rapidly growing platform. You will ship features quickly, influence technical decisions, and shape engineering as the business scales.

This AI-native environment embeds AI-assisted development into daily workflows, with autonomy to own delivery, collaborate with React frontend teams, and work across short iteration cycles with product and design.

Qualifications

• Strong experience building backend apps with Python.
• Commercial experience with FastAPI is essential.
• Experience deploying cloud-native apps on AWS.
• Background in product-led startups or fast-paced environments.
• Comfort with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and scale backend services.
• Develop reliable APIs and distributed services on AWS.
• Collaborate with product, design and frontend teams.
• Apply AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Skills

Autonomy

Ownership

Product mindset

Collaboration

AI literacy

Tools

Python

FastAPI

AWS

Job description

Digital Waffle in London is seeking a Backend Engineer to design and scale APIs and services powering a rapidly growing platform. You will ship features quickly, influence technical decisions, and shape engineering as the business scales.

This AI-native environment embeds AI-assisted development into daily workflows, with autonomy to own delivery, collaborate with React frontend teams, and work across short iteration cycles with product and design.