Lead Backend/Platform Engineer - NestJS/TypeScript

MLR Associates

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

yesterday

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Working hours

Regular working hours

Languages

English

Experience level

Senior

Compensation

£ 200K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence

Data Governance

Data Integrity

Search Technologies

TypeScript

Backend

Event Driven Architecture

Storage Technologies

Real Time Data

NestJS

Data Pipelines

Microservices

Job description

Architect and build scalable data pipelines and infrastructure
Design and maintain data ingestion, transformation, and storage architectures for operational and AI workloads.
Develop and manage batch and Real Time data pipelines.
Build and optimize systems for vector search, retrieval, and ML data pipelines.
Ensure data reliability, security, and governance across the platform.
Collaborate with AI and Back End engineering teams to support training, inference, and product features.
Implement monitoring, observability, and data quality frameworks.

Requirements

NestJS and TypeScript - core stack, no exceptions
Microservices and event-driven systems - non-negotiable
Strong system design with clear trade-offs
Production AI experience - agentic preferred
Full-stack awareness, Back End dominant
Led people, not just projects
Entrepreneurial mindset - startup experience preferred
AI active in development workflow

Benefits & conditions

London/City - £170-200k salary + equity package Full Time Posted by: MLR Associates Posted: Thursday, 16 July 2026 Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location