Senior Backend Engineer (Darwin)

Job Description

We work with billions of training data images to leverage some of the world’s most complex and general purpose AI models. Our back-end development is world-class and not short of challenges.
Team’s mission: Design, build and orchestrate backend services that enable our customers to train and leverage AI models in an elegant and performant way.
Technologies we use: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS
What You’ll Do 

Join the team in building solutions to speed up the time to complete annotations tasks
Be the go to backend engineer in the team responsible for the data flow of the AI features, both from a codebase point of view and infrastructural one
Take ownership of backend tasks related to our model training and inference systems, focusing on enhancing visibility and minimizing costs
Upgrade/Redesign our autoscaling system for model interference
Facilitate seamless integration between V7’s web application and our AI system, serving as the crucial link to optimize our system for labeller’s speed
Employ orchestration techniques to oversee backend tasks and jobs, guaranteeing that the models provided to customers are sufficiently resourced for efficient operation.

Who you are

Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field with a strong portfolio of projects.
A backend engineer with strong architectural design skills
Expertise in functional programming, with working experience using Elixir
A strong interest in ML and applying AI to solve problems
Infrastructure management experience at scale; you should be comfortable in using AWS and terraform
Proficiency in queue management and observability, utilizing RabbitMQ as our primary tool.
Experience with orchestration tools like Docker
Fluent in English

What’s the interview process: 1st Hiring Manager Interview, 2nd Take Home Challenge, 3rd collaborative technical zoom interview , 4th Co-Founder Values interview
What’s in it for you?

London salary: £90k-£130k
Remote/EU salary: £80k-£120k
Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme
Private Healthcare & dental care via Bupa for our UK employees, or equivalent allowance outside of UK
Pension contribution through Nest
£800 Learning and Development budget
Apple MacBook suitable for your role
Monthly wellbeing and mental health budget via ThanksBen
Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days holiday, plus an additional day for every year of service with V7, plus Bank Holidays on top
4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations
Hybrid working with flexibility, role dependent
Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year
Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, …) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times