Backend Engineer, AI

Backend Engineer, AI A fast-growing AI-first technology company is looking for a Backend Engineer, AI to join their team building the production infrastructure behind next-generation AI applications powered by large language models. Successful candidates will build and operate the backend systems that power AI interactions at scale, designing inference pipelines, orchestration layers, and high-performance APIs that connect cutting-edge models with real-world products. You will optimise latency, reliability, and throughput while working closely with machine learning and product teams to deliver fast, scalable, and observable AI services. Ideal candidates will have knowledge of: Python Node.js PyTorch Large Language Models (OpenAI, Anthropic, Llama or similar) AI inference pipelines and model orchestration High-throughput, low-latency backend systems Distributed systems SQL and NoSQL databases Kubernetes Docker Monitoring, logging and observability API design and backend architecture Performance optimisation, caching and streaming Key words: Backend Engineer / AI Backend Engineer / Software Engineer / Python / Node.js / PyTorch / LLM / Large Language Models / OpenAI / Anthropic / AI Infrastructure / Backend Systems / Distributed Systems / Kubernetes / Docker / SQL / NoSQL / API Development / AI Inference / Model Serving / Machine Learning Infrastructure / Cloud Engineering By applying to this role you understand that we may collect your personal data and store and process it on our systems. For more information please see our Privacy Notice (https://eu-recruit.com/about-us/privacy-notice/)