Backend Engineer, Samaya

£120-180k

Senior and Expert level

London

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3+ days a week in office

Knowledge discovery platform

Job no longer available

Knowledge discovery platform

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaS

Job no longer available

£120-180k

Senior and Expert level

London

More information about location

3+ days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseMachine LearningSaaS

Company mission

To enable domain experts to answer complex questions and uncover hidden insights from large sets of knowledge-intensive documents.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or related qualification
5+ years experience in tech industry
Proactive and eager to take ownership
Fast iteration based on user engagement

Desirable

Experience in backend or distributed systems
Experience in data/indexing/search systems at scale
Expertise in best practices of building for scale, performance, and engineering best practices
Excited about growing as a mentor to the engineering team

What the job involves

As a Backend Engineer at Samaya, you will design and lead the development of critical system components that support and enable our AI product. This year we are setup for rapid growth to several thousands of expert users that rely on Samaya daily
You will be critical in ensuring our system scales reliably while maintaining our internal engineering practices maintain a high standard allowing us to scale
Develop and own key system components and services to be fast and reliable at scale
Design how we build, maintain, and streamline document ingestion and provide it at scale to our QA and Agents
Provide engineering best practices across our entire product, backend, and ML stack
Take ambiguous business/product problems and build extensible systems that allow us to build fast and adapt to user needs

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Samaya supplies a platform for search, summarisation and knowledge discovery to enable faster and highly informed decisions. The company leverages AI and advancements in Large Language Models to answer more complex questions than alternate discovery options.

Built for domain experts, Samaya boasts the ability to uncover insights even from large and knowledge-intensive document sets. This should have a wealth of applications and, as the product further develops, it will be interesting to see what industries and businesses it might attract.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (1 round)

May 2025

$43.5m

SERIES A

Total funding: $43.5m

Company benefits

Health: Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision and short-term disability
Wealth: Support for your long-term financial wellbeing, with 401k (US) and enhanced pension (UK)
Rest: The ability to rest and recharge as needed, with unlimited PTO
Flexibility: A hybrid work environment (typically, team members spend a minimum of two days in the officer per week)
Travel: Travel to other locations is encourage to foster team cohesion and maintain Samaya's unique culture
Equipment: Equipment allowance to create your ideal work setup

Company HQ

Westminster, London, UK

Leadership

Maithra Raghu

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Former Research Scientist on Google Brain at Google. Earned a PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Fabio Petroni

(Co-Founder)

Worked at Facebook AI for 4 years, ultimately as Research Tech Lead Manager. Was also a Research Scientist at Thomson Reuters and Data Engineer at KPMG.

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