Senior Backend Engineer — Remote + Stock Options

Mimica Automation; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Laptop setup stipend

Co-working budget

Flexible schedules

Paid time off

Parental leave

Health & retirement benefits

Learning budget

Socials

Job summary

Mimica Automation is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our MERN-based platform. You will design scalable architectures, build high-performance backend services and APIs, and own operational reliability for production systems powering AI-enabled automation.

You will work in a small, cross-functional team, shaping our technical direction, processes, and culture while delivering robust backend capabilities and collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer.
• Focus on developing high-performance production software base and scalable architectures.
• Experience designing APIs and managing databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Fluency in English with clear communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to architectural decisions and collaborate across teams to implement product improvements.
• Develop and optimize a real-time backend service enabling multi-user graph editing and retraining AI models.
• Create libraries and APIs in Node.js to interact with ML components.
• Diagnose fault-tolerance, availability issues and performance bottlenecks and resolve them.
• Refactor components, document implementations, and share knowledge through reviews.
• Support hiring and onboarding, taking on end-to-end project management as we scale.

Skills

JavaScript/TypeScript

Node.js

Docker

Kubernetes

APIs

Databases

Distributed systems

English fluency

Leadership

Code reviews

Tools

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Mimica Automation is seeking an experienced backend engineer to scale our MERN-based platform. You will design scalable architectures, build high-performance backend services and APIs, and own operational reliability for production systems powering AI-enabled automation.

You will work in a small, cross-functional team, shaping our technical direction, processes, and culture while delivering robust backend capabilities and collaborating across teams.