Senior Backend Engineer: Python + GCP for AI Platform

ea Change; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

ea Change is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to build a greenfield enterprise AI platform for a major UK bank. You'll design and implement backend services that securely connect enterprise systems and data to conversational AI, knowledge retrieval and agentic AI capabilities.

This hands-on role is roughly 80% Python and 20% Java, with no frontend work. Hybrid work model: 2 days/week from Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham or Edinburgh, and strong emphasis on Cloud-native, Kubernetes, and

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building REST APIs and microservices.
• Cloud-native engineering experience, must have GCP.
• Kubernetes and containerised application development.
• Experience integrating complex enterprise systems.
• CI/CD, automated testing and Git.
• Understanding of distributed and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Build backend services that securely connect enterprise systems and data to conversational AI, knowledge retrieval and agentic AI capabilities.
• Hands-on backend engineering role, approximately 80% Python / 20% Java, with no frontend development required.
• Collaborate with AI engineers, data engineers, architects and security specialists to shape a major new platform from the ground up.

Skills

Python

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Tools

GKE

GCS

Vertex AI

Kafka

Job description

ea Change is seeking Senior Backend Engineers to build a greenfield enterprise AI platform for a major UK bank. You'll design and implement backend services that securely connect enterprise systems and data to conversational AI, knowledge retrieval and agentic AI capabilities.

This hands-on role is roughly 80% Python and 20% Java, with no frontend work. Hybrid work model: 2 days/week from Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Birmingham or Edinburgh, and strong emphasis on Cloud-native, Kubernetes, and