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Senior Backend Engineer (Node.js and Python)

LocationLondon or remote, UK
Job typeFull time
Experience levelSenior
DepartmentEngineering

You will build the systems our agents run on: the integrations to phone, diary, accounting and practice software, the approval and audit layers that make them safe, and the tooling that lets a small team run many of them well.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build integrations with the systems small businesses actually use, through official APIs where they exist and carefully where they do not.
  • Build the approval, logging and permissions layer that sits between an agent and anything irreversible.
  • Own reliability: monitoring, alerting and the daily checks that follow a go-live.
  • Work with the delivery team to turn a scoped job into a running agent inside ten working days.
  • Improve the platform so each new agent takes less effort than the last.
  • Review code, mentor, and hold the bar on security and data handling.

What we are looking for

  • Five or more years building production backend systems in Node.js and Python.
  • Deep experience with third-party API integration, webhooks, queues and the failure modes that come with them.
  • A security-minded approach to credentials, PII and tenancy; GDPR is part of the job.
  • Experience running systems in production with real customers and real consequences.
  • Clear communication with people who do not write code.

Helpful, not required

  • Experience with LLM APIs, tool use and evaluation.
  • Telephony or messaging platform experience (Twilio or similar, WhatsApp Business API).
  • Knowledge of UK accounting, practice management or booking software.

How we hire

  • A short call with a founder to talk about the role and what you have built.
  • A practical exercise close to the real work, paid for your time, with a follow-up conversation about it.
  • A conversation with the people you would work with most.
  • An offer within a week of the last conversation. We tell you either way.

Interested?

Send a short note and a link to something you have made or sold, and tell us why this role. No cover letter required.

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