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# Senior Backend Engineer (AI)

- **Company:** Currence
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £74,152.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Elasticsearch, Python (Programming Language), PostgreSQL, SQL Databases, TypeScript, ReactJS, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Large Language Models, Backend, Data Layers, Kubernetes, Performance Monitor, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5902862711

## About the Role

We work primarily with Python, SQL, TypeScript/React and are hosted on AWS. But don't worry too much about having experience with the specific tech stack - we are generally looking for people with strong core engineering skills and principles. We are looking for polyglots who believe specific technologies are just tools for tackling problems., * 5+ years experience as a Software Engineer or equivalent

 * Experience in data and AI engineering deploying AI applications in production, including RAG pipelines, agent orchestration, and performance monitoring.
 * Proven history developing and maintaining production-grade software and systems
 * Wanting to work in a small fast-moving team with high ownership and impact.

Big Plus

 * Experience working with data pipelines at scale
 * Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS), Dagster, Kubernetes, and high-throughput background processing
 * Working understanding of energy and climate tech sectors

## Description

You'll be working across our AI back-end (Python, Dagster) and the data layer (Postgresql, Elasticsearch, Iceberg). The kind of problems you may cover include:

 * Design, build, evaluate and deploy automations for agentic workflows, retrieval strategies, and LLM-powered data pipelines.
 * Creating evals for multi-step agent workflows
 * Add proactive intelligence inside the data pipelines from ingestion all the way to consumption
 * Create interfaces that make agent behavior easier to inspect, steer, and trust by internal users

You can also expect to:

 * Work closely with product, research and commercial teams to define what "good" looks like
 * Take ownership of our codebase, balancing high-quality code, security and speed of development
 * Own and drive forward PoCs and solve broad technical challenges