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Junior

Backend Engineer

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London, Greater London, England
Mid level
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London, Greater London, England
Mid level
As a Backend Engineer, you will build AI-first internal tools, develop data architecture, and automate processes for the commercial team.
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👶 About Junior

We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered tools to supercharge the investment research process for private market investors. Our clients include several of the world’s top 10 private equity and consulting firms, and are responsible for investing billions of dollars annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 24 based in London and NYC. We 10x’d our revenue in 2025.

You can read more about the company mission & values here.

💡 Role Description

As our first engineering hire entirely focused on our internal go-to-market and operations stack, you'll have the unique opportunity to:

  • Design and build a start-up’s tech stack to be AI-first from the ground up; contribute to infra decisions, direction and prioritization

  • Ship internal tools quickly and get immediate feedback from your colleagues (they will quickly become your biggest fans!)

  • Develop and own our data warehouse and internal data architecture

  • Work on groundbreaking projects involving LLMs, agents and automation

  • Shape our engineering culture

🔧 Sample set of projects
  • User Health Reporting + CRM Data Quality: automate data pipelines to feed metrics into BI dashboards / ML evals (e.g. usage, demos, feedback) and build alert systems to flag risk signals (e.g. usage drop, feedback spike). Ensure we have accurate usage and profile data across our customers.

  • User Feedback —> Product Development pipeline: build a tool that takes summaries of feedback calls with users, evaluates priority feedback items / feature requests and then shares them with our Product team.

  • Billing / Invoicing: implement complicated B2B pricing models, involving combination of usage-based, seat-based and platform fees in a single invoice. Automate as much of the financial reconciliation and reporting process as possible!

  • Building data warehouse and reporting → build data warehouse to integrate our product database, crm data and operations / finance data generate team-specific dashboards from data

🔥 About You

We're looking for a back-end / data engineers who like building internal tools and helping their commercial team colleagues work 10x faster:

  • Based in London, in our Farringdon office 5 days / week

  • Have experience leading projects end-to-end and are self-directed, comfortable reporting into several senior stakeholders

  • Have strong communication skills, with experience translating ‘laymen speak’ into technical requirements

  • Has interest and/or experience in our commercial tech stack: Notion, Slack, Retool, Amplitude, Stripe

    • Sales, Finance, Ops, Customer Success will be relying on you to make them more efficient / AI-enabled

  • Proficient in PostgreSQL and one or more of the data platforms (Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Firebolt, etc.)

    • Experience with our product stack (Node.js & Typescript) preferred

  • Feel like you are never building fast enough. You have start-up experience and thrive in fast-paced, chaotic environments

  • Bonus points for experience building & designing AI-powered products!

🌵Benefits
  • Private health insurance

  • Gym membership (Third Space)

  • Dinner when working late

  • Frequent offsites (recent offsites include Crete, Greece; upstate New York, USA; Cancun, Mexico)

📩 How to Apply

If you're excited about the opportunity to drive innovation at Junior, we'd love to hear from you! Email us at [email protected] with your resume and a brief introduction. We can't wait to meet you! 🙌

Top Skills

Amplitude
BigQuery
Databricks
Firebolt
Node.js
Notion
Postgres
Retool
Slack
Snowflake
Stripe
Typescript

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