Backend Engineer
🚀 Backend Engineer (AI/LLM) | Contract | London | 3 days onsite
We're hiring backend engineers for a high-impact contract with a major UK media business. If you've built real AI-powered systems in production, not just played with APIs, we want to talk.
The role
You'll be embedded in a fast-moving team building intelligent editorial automation workflows. Think event-driven architecture, cloud-native infrastructure, and LLM integrations that actually have to work under pressure.
You'll need
• Strong backend engineering fundamentals
• AWS hands-on experience: Bedrock, Secrets Manager, the real stuff
• Production LLM/AI integration experience: evals, prompt engineering, handling unpredictable model behaviour
• REST API fluency: you've integrated messy third-party APIs and made them behave
What separates great candidates
• You've shipped AI features in anger, not just in a notebook
• You're comfortable with webhooks, async patterns, and stateful workflows
• You thrive in ambiguous, fast-moving environments: discovery phases don't faze you
• You're pragmatic, not precious
📍 London-based, 3 days per week onsite
📄 Contract role
⚡ Start immediately
Multiple positions available.
Drop me a message or apply below 👇