Staff Backend Engineer (AI Lab | £170,000)

Role: Staff Software Engineer (Python | Backend | Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid - 2-3 days in London Office

Compensation: Up to £170,000 + equity

We’re working with a frontier AI lab pushing the boundaries of computational biology, combining machine learning, cloud infrastructure, and scientific research to accelerate discoveries in life sciences.

As a Staff Backend Engineer , you’ll build the distributed systems and data infrastructure that power the lab’s next-generation biology platform. From model serving to real-time data processing, your work will form the backbone of a platform enabling scientists to explore and manipulate biological data in entirely new ways.

What you’ll do

• Design and own backend architecture for large-scale, data-intensive applications.
• Develop and optimize APIs that handle complex biological and ML-driven workl...