Senior Backend Engineer, V7 Labs

• Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related field with a strong portfolio of projects
• A backend engineer with strong architectural design skills
• Expertise in functional programming, with working experience using Elixir
• A strong interest in ML and applying AI to solve problems
• Infrastructure management experience at scale; you should be comfortable in using AWS and terraform
• Proficiency in queue management and observability, utilizing RabbitMQ as our primary tool
• Experience with orchestration tools like Docker
• Fluent in English

• We work with billions of training data images to leverage some of the world's most complex and general purpose AI models. Our back-end development is world-class and not short of challenges
• Team’s mission: Design, build and orchestrate backend services that enable our customers to train and leverage AI models in an elegant and performant way
• Technologies we use: Elixir, Phoenix, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Docker, AWS
• Join the team in building solutions to speed up the time to complete annotations tasks
• Be the go to backend engineer in the team responsible for the data flow of the AI features, both from a codebase point of view and infrastructural one
• Take ownership of backend tasks related to our model training and inference systems, focusing on enhancing visibility and minimising costs
• Upgrade/Redesign our autoscaling system for model interference
• Facilitate seamless integration between V7's web application and our AI system, serving as the crucial link to optimise our system for labeller’s speed
• Employ orchestration techniques to oversee backend tasks and jobs, guaranteeing that the models provided to customers are sufficiently resourced for efficient operation

• 1st Hiring Manager Interview
• 2nd Take Home Challenge
• 3rd collaborative technical zoom interview
• 4th Co-Founder Values interview

• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme
• Private Healthcare via Vitality
• Learning and Development wallet of £800 per year
• Monthly well being and mental health budget
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days paid holiday with unlimited additional days
• 4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations
• Visit London to meet us in our HQ. We have a barista & plenty of snacks
• Hybrid working with flexibility or remote working
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times
• Apple hardware provided plus a £500 budget from home office equipment

Total funding: $50m

AI is currently utilised across multiple industries, requiring companies to continuously collect, organise and label image data so that AI models will be able to adapt to new scenarios. V7 Labs is a computer vision platform that helps AI teams develop vision-based models that are learning continuously from training data with minimal human supervision.