Backend / Platform Engineer - United Kingdom

Job summary

Designs, builds, and operates backend services for an enterprise AI platform, including APIs, AI gateway and orchestration capabilities, tenancy, entitlements, data access, and integrations. Owns services from design through testing, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and support, applying distributed-systems practices such as idempotency, consistency, retries, and back-pressure to support multi-tenant products and platform consumers.

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating production backend, API, or distributed platform services.
• Experience with AI gateways, orchestration, entitlements, tenancy, metering, quotas, or similar platform capabilities.
• Ability to design APIs and developer experiences for internal and external consumers.
• Experience building integration frameworks, connector patterns, governed data access, or reliable data on-ramps.
• Understanding of distributed-system failure modes, including retries, partial failure, consistency, idempotency, and back-pressure.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in client-facing environments.
• Pragmatic approach to delivering value while maintaining engineering quality.
• Desired experience with API gateways, event-driven systems, AI development practices, or enterprise-scale software.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate core services for an enterprise AI platform.
• Develop platform capabilities such as APIs, orchestration, entitlements, tenancy, data access, and integrations.
• Own services through design, implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, reliability, and support.

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