Staff Software Engineer — AI-Powered, Scalable Systems

Fanvue LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Diversity and inclusion commitment

Impact at scale

Opportunity to work with AI-native technologies

Job summary

Fanvue LLC in Greater London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technical initiatives focused on platform scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, particularly with distributed systems and AI infrastructure. This role is critical for our rapidly growing platform, supporting millions of creators and fans worldwide.

You will lead efforts to decompose the monolith into services and optimize our databases for high throughput. Join us as we leverage AI to transform our engineering practices.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and shipping at scale.
• Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS.
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including query optimisation and partitioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives that directly impact platform scalability and reliability.
• Drive monolith-to-services decomposition using proven patterns.
• Design and implement database optimisation strategies for high-throughput workloads.

Skills

TypeScript

Node.js

Go

AWS

PostgreSQL

Mentoring

Distributed systems

Tools

AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code)

Job description

Fanvue LLC in Greater London is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to drive technical initiatives focused on platform scalability and reliability. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in software engineering, particularly with distributed systems and AI infrastructure. This role is critical for our rapidly growing platform, supporting millions of creators and fans worldwide.

You will lead efforts to decompose the monolith into services and optimize our databases for high throughput. Join us as we leverage AI to transform our engineering practices.