Sr. AI Backend Engineer

Salary £60,000 - £80,000 (UK) Salary £60,000 - £80,000 (London), or other locations based on the local living cost

Stock options: 0.02% - 0.05% Equity

What you'll be doing

• Apply cutting-edge best practices and architecture to build AI-native products for Instill AI. The topics involve Infrastructure as Code (IaC), microservice, serverless, API-first design, Twelve-Factor Apps, zero-trust network, message queue, etc
• Design and develop scalable, high-performance APIs and backend services tailored to support AI-native workflows, including AI agents and model deployment
• Develop data integration standards for unstructured data, build processes and logic to extract, transform and distribute data from a wide variety of sources, and work with ML/AI engineers to integrate ML systems into data pipelines
• Work with product managers, frontend engineers, product designers and other engineers to deliver AI-driven product features aligned with the roadmap
• Deliver high-quality software and documentation

Things we'd love to see

• Proven experience in building and maintaining backend systems for AI or data-intensive applications
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure
• Expertise in Go and proficiency in SQL/NoSQL
• Experience in DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, gRPC and modern data stack
• Familiarity with machine learning (ML) frameworks and AI agent technologies
• Comfortable working in a very fast-paced agile startup environment, experience in robust and frequent releases
• Excellent communication and document writing skills
• Be customer and data obsessed and take ownership of the details
• Proactive, self-learning, and self-aware
• Intellectual curiosity, always asking "how can we improve?"
• A strong desire to build world-class products