Founding Backend Engineer (Python / Django)

🚀 Backend Engineer | Founding Engineering Team | AI / LLM

London | 4 days onsite, 1 WFH

£160,000 + meaningful equity

Python | Django | GCP | LLMs | RAG | Agent Orchestration

Pulse Group are proud to be working with an incredibly exciting AI-native startup building a next-generation product that goes far beyond \"just another chatbot!\"

They’re creating a proactive AI Lifestyle Operating System for some of the world’s highest-performing founders, athletes and creatives, using AI to actually advise, execute and manage across travel, dining, wellness, experiences and more.

The business has already raised $12m from an impressive group of investors and is now expanding its founding engineering team.

This is a genuinely hands-on, high-ownership position working directly alongside the CTO, building the backend infrastructure behind the product and taking features all the way from idea to production.

What we’re looking for:

5+ years building production backend systems

Excellent Python & Django / DRF experience

Strong SQL and PostgreSQL knowledge

Experience with background processing, ideally Celery

Hands-on experience with LLMs or AI infrastructure

Cloud-native production experience, ideally GCP

Exposure to RAG, agent-based systems or orchestration is a big plus

Someone who enjoys ownership, solving difficult engineering problems and shipping

Tech: Python | Django | DRF | Celery | GCP | Terraform | PostgreSQL | LLM Integrations | Agent Orchestration | RAG | REST APIs | CI/CD

This isn't one for someone looking to disappear into a huge engineering organisation. It’s a small, senior founding team where you’ll be close to the CTO, close to the product and have genuine influence over the technical direction as the company scales.

If you’re a seriously good Python/Django engineer who wants to build at the sharp end of applied AI, drop me a message for a confidential chat.

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