Senior Backend Engineer (Darwin)

V7 turns human knowledge into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our hardest problems. Our platform lets customers build no-code AI workflows that solve knowledge work with V7 Go, and leverage expert humans to improve frontier AI model knowledge with V7 Darwin.

V7 were recently ranked No 1 in Sifted’s top B2B companies for 2024 and raised a $33m Series A including the AI Fund @ Radical Ventures. We are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

Take a tour of our product in 90 seconds here**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-DMAN8gbjk**

Or watch the recent keynote of V7 Go’s launch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hit-RogJKvg

About the Role (Senior Backend Engineer)

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 (Senior Backend Engineer)

• 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 (Senior Backend Engineer)

• 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