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AI Backend Engineer

United Kingdom, London · Job Posted May 27, 2026
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We are looking for a Backend Engineer who builds with AI at the centre of their craft — not as a novelty, but as a primary tool that shapes how they design, write, review, and ship code. If you've already integrated Claude Code, agentic coding tools, and MCP servers deeply into your day-to-day, and you have opinions about how to do it well, we want to talk. You'll join a growing business with real engineering problems: a cloud-based property and content management platform with 11 integrations and more on the way, plus a new Booking & Request Management Platform with real-time data and predictive intelligence features. Your job is to ship meaningful backend work — fast — and to bring the rest of the engineering team along with you on AI-augmented practices. We are language-agnostic. Our current stack is PHP (Symfony) and Node.js, but we'll happily take a strong engineer from Python, Go, Java, C#, Ruby, or elsewhere who can move quickly between languages — especially with AI tooling at their side. The bar is engineering judgement and AI fluency, not a specific language on your CV. This role is open to EMEA based candidates.

Job Responsibility

  • AI-First Development: Lead by example in using Claude Code and agentic tooling for real production work
  • Agent Configuration & MCP: Build and maintain agent instruction files, custom commands/slash-commands, sub-agents, and MCP server integrations
  • AI Workflow Design: Define how AI-generated code enters our repos — review standards, test expectations, security checks, and the guardrails around it
  • Backend Engineering: Ship real backend features and services
  • Code Quality & Review: Set the bar for what good looks like in an AI-augmented codebase
  • Team Enablement: Upskill other engineers in AI tooling
  • Collaboration: Partner with product, frontend, DevOps, and QA to align technology with business goals

Requirements

  • Backend Development: 4+ years of commercial backend experience in any modern backend language (PHP, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, C#, Ruby, etc.)
  • Deep AI Tooling Experience: Hands-on, demonstrable use of Claude Code, Cursor, or similar agentic coding tools as a primary part of your workflow
  • Agent Configuration: Practical experience writing CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / equivalent files, custom commands, and sub-agent setups
  • MCP (Model Context Protocol): Working knowledge of MCP
  • API Design: Designing and managing scalable, secure APIs
  • Automated Testing: Strong testing instincts
  • Database Management: Solid grasp of MySQL/relational and NoSQL databases
  • Communication: Strong English (B2+) and the ability to explain AI-augmented workflows

Nice to have

  • Building MCP servers or other agent tooling from scratch
  • Prompt engineering depth — eval harnesses, prompt versioning, structured outputs, tool-use design
  • LLM application development — not just using AI to write code, but building features that incorporate LLMs
  • Azure — our cloud platform
  • CI/CD and DevOps — Azure DevOps, Docker, AKS, infrastructure-as-code
  • Building services from scratch end-to-end
  • Frontend awareness — React or similar

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