Backend Engineer – AI Tech Scale-up

This is an early-stage AI tech scale-up focused on solving real business problems for enterprise customers. They specialize in fine-tuning large language models to provide niche-specific, high-accuracy solutions, offering competitive advantages and reducing customer service loads. They value true ownership, impactful contributions, and a high-talent density engineering team.

Introduction

Do you want to take ownership of a core platform instead of shipping yet another micro-feature? Join a compact, high-trust team where senior engineers set the bar, mentor others, and ship work that lands in production fast.

This early-stage AI tech scale-up offers an environment for true ownership. You'll have a genuine impact on shaping the company's future, focusing on meaningful contributions rather than busy work.

The company solves a critical business problem for enterprise customers: transforming their operations using AI. Their core product leverages a large language model fine-tuned for high accuracy within client-specific niches (e.g., banks and legal firms). This provides a significant competitive advantage and reduces the load on customer service teams.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of a core platform, making significant contributions to its development and evolution.
• Collaborate with a high-talent density engineering team to ensure LLM inference is highly available, reliable, low latency, and scalable for high-volume enterprise clients.
• Contribute to the design, deployment, and maintenance of high-volume, low-latency APIs operating at scale.
• Work on distributed systems and with concurrency in an event-driven architecture.
• Mentor other future talent and learn from exceptional senior peers.
• Act as an individual contributor (IC) and take ownership of different product areas.

Requirements

• Proven senior experience in backend development.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, or Elixir.
• Experience with cloud platforms, specifically AWS.
• Deep technical experience in building, deploying, and maintaining high-volume, low-latency APIs operating at scale.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and concurrency.
• Experience with event-driven architectures and streaming data (e.g., Kafka) is a big plus.
• Experience with AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, API Gateway) is a plus.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a hybrid work environment.
• Dutch language skills preferred (working knowledge required for this role based in the Netherlands).

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary.
• Equity/Shares in the company, directly benefiting from success.
• Pension contribution.
• Significant budget for learning and development.
• Latest and greatest hardware.
• Travel expenses compensation.
• Fresh organic lunches.
• Friday drinks.

About Company

This is an early-stage AI tech scale-up focused on solving real business problems for enterprise customers. They specialize in fine-tuning large language models to provide niche-specific, high-accuracy solutions, offering competitive advantages and reducing customer service loads. They value true ownership, impactful contributions, and a high-talent density engineering team.

How to Apply

If this sounds like an exciting opportunity for you, apply now!