Senior Backend Engineer (Python) - Octad Recruitment Ltd : Job Details

Started in 2021, Our Client is building the best business AI video system on the market. Powered by the next-generation video artificial intelligence,. This role is Office based

The customers range from warehouses, schools, hospitals, hotels, and many more, and they are growing rapidly. They are looking for someone to join their team to help them scale their systems to meet the user demand and to ship new features.

This involves:

• Design and implementation of the APIs, databases and data pipelines.
• Ensure the system can scale to the growing traffic, have full observability and drive down the cost.
• Taking end-to-end responsibility over delivery of features, maintaining high SLA and debugging issues.
• Supporting a broader front-end, edge-computing and ML team.
• This is a 5-days a week in-office role.

Requirements and experience we are looking for

• 5+ years of industry experience and having built systems of reasonable scale
• You should be familiar and have experience with the main backend technologies we use: FastAPI, Python3, Docker, Postgres, Redis
• In particular, you should have experience designing, implementing, debugging, scaling, and optimising APIs, databases and pipelines as the traffic grows to multi-TB scale.
• It would be great if you also have experience with one or more
  • front-end technologies (They use React and React Native)
  • infrastructure-as-code solutions (we use Pulumi over AWS).
  • monitoring (they use Sentry and Grafana).
  • authentication (they use Auth0).
• High intrinsic motivation to succeed and ability to work hard.

What They offer

• £100-130k base
• Company equity % in an early-stage startup
• 100% company-paid private Dental & Vision insurance