Role Summary
A backend engineer who thrives in fast-growth environments, owns services end-to-end, and uses agentic development workflows to ship faster. Will work on the core applications powering the business.
Responsibilities
- Develop and own our core applications - CRM and finance services - for internal and external users.
Evaluation Criteria
Fast-growth / high-performance startup or scaleup experience
- Has worked at a Series A/B (or comparable) startup through a period of rapid scaling.
- Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and shipping under pressure without over-engineering.
- Signals: early/founding engineer roles, ownership of significant surface area, demonstrable velocity.
Python / FastAPI
- Strong, current production Python with FastAPI specifically.
- Signals: API design, async Python, building and maintaining services in production. Adjacent data/persistence experience (SQL, ORMs) is a plus.
Strong agentic workflows / development optimisation
- Actively uses AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) as a core part of their daily workflow.
- Focuses on optimising development workflows through tooling, automation, and spec-driven development.
Ownership of Quality
- Used to owning testing and quality; writes and maintains personal test suites without reliance on a separate QA function.
- Signals: Testing discipline, test coverage ownership, and a "you build it, you run it" mentality.