Senior Python Backend Engineer - AI 0→1 Platform, Equity

Albert Bow; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Albert Bow is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in London to build a greenfield AI-driven product from scratch, working closely with the CTO and founders. You’ll focus on Python-based backend services, APIs, data pipelines and AI features, taking ideas from conception to production.

You’ll own architecture decisions, ship high-performance APIs and integrations, tackle latency and observability, and contribute to the system design in a fast-growing startup environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent software engineering fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build the backend from the ground up; you’ll have a genuine say in how the system is designed.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

AI agents

CS fundamentals

Architectural thinking

GitHub projects

Concurrency

Observability

Education

Top CS program

Tools

FastAPI

Django

AWS

Redis

Celery

Kafka

LLM tooling

Job description

Albert Bow is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer in London to build a greenfield AI-driven product from scratch, working closely with the CTO and founders. You’ll focus on Python-based backend services, APIs, data pipelines and AI features, taking ideas from conception to production.

You’ll own architecture decisions, ship high-performance APIs and integrations, tackle latency and observability, and contribute to the system design in a fast-growing startup environment.