Senior Python Backend Engineer
Nicoll Curtin · Southwark, South East London ·
- Seniority
- Senior
- Category
- Backend
- Salary
- GBP 68,000 – 108,000 / year
Senior Python backend engineer joining a small UK team building a new AI product for real-world tasks and workflows. The role designs and operates the backend layer connecting LLMs to the product — inference pipelines, orchestration, and APIs — with focus on latency, throughput, reliability, and scaling. Remote-first within the UK; £68k–£108k plus equity.
Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year Requirements: Production experience owning backend systems end to end Experience working with AI systems beyond simple integration Practical experience with latency and throughput optimization, monitoring and observability, debugging and incident handling, and scaling production systems Strong Python backend experience Familiarity with Node.js, SQL or NoSQL databases, the LLM ecosystem (such as OpenAI and Anthropic), Docker, Kubernetes, and a major cloud platf…