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Backend Engineer (AI, Agent systems)

Digital Waffle · United Kingdom

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We're looking for an experienced AI Engineer to build systems bringing intelligence to everyday organisation and workflows. Our product emphasises high reliability for long‑running tasks, ongoing context, and task execution.As a Backend Engineer, you will design, build, and operate production systems that transform model capabilities into fast, stable, observable APIs used across mobile and desktop clients.Role: Backend Engineer (AI, Agent Systems)Location: UK based remote workingFull TimePackage £130k+Role and responsibilitiesCreating backend systems which operate reliably at scale, handling AI traffic with low latencyBuilding APIs that are stable, well‑designed, and integrate seamlessly with frontend systemsDetecting production issues, diagnostics, and resolving issues quickly, minimising user impactContinuously improving our product based on real usage, increasing performance and reliability over timeFocus AreBackend systems that serve AI‑powered features in productionInference pipelines, orchestration layers, and service boundaries around modelsProduction operations including monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident responsePerformance optimisation across latency, throughput, caching, batching, and streamingExperienceStrong backend engineering fundamentals in production environmentsFamiliarity with AI inference patterns (LLMs, embeddings, multimodal systems)Ability to debug distributed systems under loadA bias toward shipping, learning, and iterating from real production behaviourTech Stack:PythonNode.JSPyTorchLLMs (commercial and open‑source)SQL & NoSQLKubernetesDockerIf you are interested to find out more, please apply with your CV today