• 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