- Lead Backend/Platform Engineer - NestJS/TypeScript
- Leading Technology AI Brand
- SaaS - Platform based Technology Services
- London/City
- £70-105k salary + equity package
Our client a global technology leader is currently looking for a Senior/Lead Backend Engineer to work with the dev team to guide the provision of Software Development for an exciting new AI product.
Key Responsibilities:-
- Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
- Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
- Develop and manage batch and Real Time data pipelines.
- Build and optimize systems for vector search, retrieval, and ML data pipelines.
- Ensure data reliability, security, and governance across the platform.
- Collaborate with AI and Back End engineering teams to support training, inference, and product features.
- Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality frameworks.
Requirements:-
-
NestJS and TypeScript - core stack, no exceptions
-
Microservices and event-driven systems - non-negotiable
-
Strong system design with clear trade-offs
-
Production AI experience - agentic preferred
-
Full-stack awareness, Back End dominant
-
Led people, not just projects
-
Entrepreneurial mindset - startup experience preferred
-
AI active in development workflow