Kernel - Senior Full Stack Engineer
Requirements
• 6+ years of software or product engineering experience • Strong experience building and scaling production systems • Comfort with backend engineering (NodeJS, Postgres, TypeScript) • Strong understanding of LLM application development patterns (RAG, prompt engineering, consistency testing) - either through production experience or demonstrated personal projects. If you're new to LLMs but have shipped complex production systems in other domains and are comfortable rapidly learning new technologies, we'd still love to hear from you. • Ability to operate autonomously in a small, high-velocity team • Excellent communication and collaboration skills • Some experience with Kubernetes or distributed systems • It is a plus if you also have: • Experience working on AI-driven or data-heavy products • Frontend experience (NextJS, React, TypeScript) • Understanding of CRM data models or workflow automation • ⚠️ This role may not be for you if you: • This role may not be for you if you: • Need lots of structure • Will only ship pixel-perfect results before releasing • Need a fully fleshed-out spec to code • Are heavily indexed on DevOps and have spent less time on software engineering • ❌ This role is definitely not for you if you: • This role is definitely not for you if you: • Prefer fully remote work (this role requires at least 3 days a week in the office) • Do not enjoy the intensity of an early-stage startup • Have side hustles or other projects • Want to manage a team • Back-end (AWS): NodeJS, TypeScript, Postgres • Front-end: NextJS, TypeScript, Tailwind • Workflow automation: n8n • ❤️ Team • We are around 30 people with 7 engineers and 1 Product Manager, including: • Sam Houghton, Founding Engineer • Eleanor Leung, Senior Engineer • David Saltares, Senior Engineer • Stefan Sabev, Head of Product • Tom Ankers, Senior Engineer • Willis Chou, Senior Engineer • 🎫 Visas & Relocation • Visas & Relocation • We sponsor visas for exceptional candidates and provide relocation support for those moving to London.
Responsibilities
• Owning and scaling Kernel’s back-end infrastructure (AWS, NodeJS, Postgres, n8n) • Designing systems that process millions of accounts, terabytes of data and thousands of parallel executions • Building reliable, scalable data pipelines and services for enterprise customers • Rapidly shipping features to users and to our internal team • Continuously evaluating code, infrastructure and processes to find improvements • Automating manual processes to increase speed and reliability • Sharing feedback on roadmap direction and ideas on bets to place and potential solutions • Ensuring a world-class, scalable back-end infrastructure • Working daily with the team to move us toward our next goal • Implementing mass-action workflows that clean, enrich and complete CRM data • Establishing robust monitoring, observability and reliability practices • Partnering with product and solutions engineering to translate business logic into safe mass actions in customer CRMs
Benefits
• £110K – £170K • Offers Equity • Kernel provides enterprise RevOps teams with AI-powered company data for their CRMs. We raised $14M in Series A funding from top VCs and operators at Plaid, OpenAI, and Slack to build an AI-native alternative to Dun & Bradstreet's entity and hierarchy data. • RevOps teams at Navan, Gong, Mistral, and AlphaSense use Kernel to run their organizations. • At Kernel, we process 7B+ tokens a day and run 1.8M+ agents daily, all on an architecture that’s intentionally simple: one database, one queue. It’s minimalism built for massive scale (For reference, Wikipedia has 2.3B tokens in the English wikipedia). Our queue processes a daily volume on par with the entire Visa network’s transactions (~365M/day). All of which has been built by a small but mighty team of engineers. • We will do our best to offer you a ride of a lifetime. It will not be easy, but it will be thrilling. • 🗓️ 24 days holiday per year + bank holidays • ✈️ 2 weeks work-from-anywhere • 💼 Pension plan • 💻 Top-spec equipment and central London office • 🍽️ Free dinner at the office • 🎉 Team events and dinners • 🚀 Work directly with the founders to scale the systems that power enterprise AI
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