Senior Backend Engineer, Unique AI
Chat & AI Platform
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3 days a week in office
Agentic AI for financial services
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Agentic AI for financial services
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
3 days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower Financial Services by delivering cutting-edge, AI-powered solutions that streamline operations and drive innovation.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience with strong expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, and NestJS
- Strong system design skills: you can reason about distributed systems, define clean service boundaries, and make pragmatic technical trade-offs
- Deep database knowledge: schema design, query optimization, and migration strategies in PostgreSQL; Prisma experience is a plus
- Experience building reliable production APIs and backend services with real operational constraints
- Security awareness: comfortable with multi-tenant data isolation, authentication and authorization patterns, and auditability in enterprise software
What the job involves
- We're building an enterprise AI platform where chat is the primary product surface. It is where users interact with AI agents, search across knowledge, collaborate in shared spaces, and trigger complex workflows through natural language
- We're looking for a senior backend engineer who wants to work close to product, not just infrastructure
- You will work on the systems behind a modern AI product: APIs, data models, async workflows, real-time delivery, and LLM orchestration
- You will also help shape technical direction, mentor teammates, and raise the quality bar across the backend stack
- Core backend systems: Design, implement, and optimize multi-tenant NestJS/Prisma/PostgreSQL services and APIs powering spaces, assistants, knowledge access, and conversational workflows
- AI platform capabilities: Enhance the LLM orchestration layer (streaming, tool calling, multi-model routing), integrate Python/MCP tools, and drive lower latency, higher reliability, and better cost efficiency
- Async and real-time architecture: Build event-driven workflows with RabbitMQ for reliable background and inter-service messaging, and maintain a responsive real-time chat delivery pipeline
- Platform ownership: Elevate observability (metrics, structured logs, dashboards, alerts), own K8s/Helm production delivery with ArgoCD GitOps, and contribute shared backend platform packages
- Engineering culture: Ensure quality with robust unit/integration tests, lead in reviews and architecture patterns, and mentor peers to raise backend reliability and maintainability
Our take
Zurich-based Unique AI is a fintech solutions firm leveraging the power of AI to help companies optimise their middle and back office processes. Through a suite of AI agents, Unique’s solutions help financial institutions tackle complicated problems and enhance the customer experience, all whilst maintaining the highest standards of compliance.
What helps Unique stand out in the world of AI agents is its combination of flexible use case agents and customisable deployments. Its agile agents can be programmed to 25 specific use cases, many of which are common workload pilers for financial institutions, whilst the customisability of the platform means they can also be configured to unique problems encountered by clients.
With $30 million in Series A raised in 2025, Unique is planning to accelerate its plans for product development and market growth, with a focus on entering the US in the near future. With 40+ leading European clients, the company’s agile product shows promise and effectiveness.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2025
$30m
SERIES A
Dec 2023
$6.5m
SEED
Total funding: $52.5m
Company benefits
- Leading Company 💪 A chance to be part of a leading company in a rapidly evolving industry
- 5 additional educational days
- Hybrid set up 🧑💻🏢
- Culture 🌿 A modern company with flat hierarchies that focuses on a people-oriented culture and places great emphasis on transparency and open communication
- Innovative & Impactful Projects 🚀 Engage in groundbreaking projects within the Generative AI space. Contribute towards building the foundations enabling financial institutions to operationalize AI.
Company values
- We respect and value everybody's uniqueness - We know that diversity is a gain and makes us stronger as a team.
- We are a team of entrepreneurs - The success of our company depends on every single one of us.
- We foster sustainable business through integrity and loyalty - We aim to build long-term relationships with customers, employees and other partners.
Company HQ
Enge, Zürich, ZH
Leadership
Manuel Grenacher
(Co-Founder & CEO)Is also a Board Member of LAAZ Mountain Vision for Weisse Arena Group, Founder & Board Member at Core Systems AG and BenLink.
Michelle Heppler
(Co-Founder & CCO)Previously the Co-Founder and CCO of Pathmate Technologies, was a Senior Account Manager at Swisscom and an IT Business Lead for Daimler AG.
Andreas Hauri
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Head of Intelligence Services at SAP, was the CEO & Co-Founder of ambrpay and a Board Member & Investor for ph. ltd. Was also a Startup Mentor for two years at the Fintech10 Incubator & Accelerator
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