Gradient Labs - Senior Backend Engineer
Requirements
• Substantial tenure building production software at a fast-growing company - fintech, AI, consumer tech, or any environment where pace and stakes were both high • Proven experience owning complex, high-stakes systems end to end - not handing off at merge, but staying accountable through observability, iteration, and scale • Deep fluency in Go (Golang) and comfort operating across a modern backend stack (PostgreSQL, Temporal, GCP, Kubernetes) • A product instinct that goes beyond technical elegance - you think from the customer backwards and bring that into every architectural decision • Senior, Staff, Principal or Distinguished level in practice - someone who has operated with real scope and real accountability • Genuine excitement for autonomous AI as a platform shift, not a trend - you want to build the infrastructure that makes agents genuinely reliable • Strong opinions, loosely held - conviction without ego, and always willing to be wrong in pursuit of the right answer
Benefits
• This is a unique chance to be part of a team working with cutting-edge technology to reshape how businesses will operate in the future. Over the next 10 years, every company will need to embrace AI-powered operations to stay competitive, and this role puts you right in the middle of that transformation. • You’ll tackle challenging and new problems, work with some of the most exciting brands across different industries, and be surrounded by a passionate, smart team that’s driven to build something groundbreaking. • We’re still at early stages of building out our compensation bandings, whilst we continue to shape this, we’re open to chatting with people who have a range of salary requirements • Our compensation package has two key components - base salary & meaningful equity • Private medical & dental insurance • 25 days holiday + bank holidays (or bank holiday opt out for 32 days holiday) • Team socials and offsites • Flexible working - we have an office in central London and a hybrid working approach. This role is open to London based or remote in the UK folks (ideally you'd be able to come into the office once per week) • The Interview Process 📝 • 30 mins Talent Screen with our Founding People & Talent • 1hr Hiring Manager interview with our CTO, Neal Lathia • Take Home Task Deep Dive interview with 2 of our Backend Engineers • Final Product Interview
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