Senior Backend Engineer

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Numan

πŸ“Remote - Worldwide

Summary

Join Numan's innovative AI team as a Senior Backend Engineer and contribute to the future of digital health. You will play a key role in designing AI architecture, building a health platform, deploying machine learning models, and ensuring optimal model performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to a company with a strong mission. This role requires expertise in backend engineering, large language models, and AI functionalities. Numan offers a comprehensive benefits package including share options, generous holiday time, health insurance, enhanced parental leave, and various other perks.

Requirements

  • Be a strong backend engineer with experience in designing and developing large-scale applications and designing end-to-end infrastructure
  • Demonstrate expert-level understanding of deploying and managing Large Language Models (LLMs), including setting up, fine-tuning, and scaling these models to support real-world applications
  • Be highly knowledgeable in technologies such as Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • Have substantial experience building, optimising, and maintaining APIs specifically designed for AI functionalities, including a scalable AI model inference with robust error handling and security measures
  • Have excellent Python skills and strong experience with frameworks such as Django or Flask
  • Have strong commercial experience in relational and non-relational databases
  • Have excellent problem-solving and debugging skills
  • Care deeply about system health and maintainability, with a passion for good engineering habits and best practices
  • Take initiatives, be able to work independently, and own all aspects of their work
  • Have solid communication skills and be able to work in cross-functional teams and collaborate effectively with remote team members
  • Take pride in their work and always be looking to improve, not settling for average
  • Want to work for a brand with a purpose

Responsibilities

  • Be instrumental in designing our AI architecture and building a health platform that helps our patients take better care of themselves
  • Set up, fine-tune, deploy, and scale machine learning models that drive products and services
  • Monitor model performance in real-world applications and iteratively improve based on feedback and new data
  • Work in the Medical Platform team, designing, implementing, maintaining, scaling and deploying a core part of our business
  • Be hands-on with coding, best practices, appropriate tools and technologies
  • Mentor, help and guide less experienced colleagues to grow as engineers
  • Work with people from various business functions in clarifying requirements and suggesting different and relevant technical approaches

Benefits

  • Share options
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays (increasing to 30 the longer you stay with Numan)
  • Health insurance with Vitality
  • Enhanced maternity and parental leave
  • Employee assistance programme (access to therapy, financial planning and discounts)
  • Generous pension (includes both employee and employer contributions)
  • Flexible working options, including a dog friendly office in Farringdon
  • Personal training and development budget via Learnerbly
  • Wellhub membership, giving you access to over 2,000 locations in the UK
  • Free office snacks including breakfast items, soft drinks, tea and coffee
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Discount to Numan products for your friends and family
  • Paid volunteering days
  • An additional 2 weeks off once you reach your 5th anniversary with Numan
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