Founding Senior Software Engineer (UK + Europe)

The role

You will architect and build core systems and integrate AI into real-world workflows. You will develop performant APIs and design scalable systems for the platform.

What you will do

• Architect and build core systems
• Drive key decisions across the stack
• Own feature development end-to-end
• Integrate AI into real-world workflows
• Put LLMs and ML models into production
• Design systems that scale
• Develop performant APIs and services

Required qualifications

• 3+ years building and scaling production systems
• Strong across backend fundamentals (services, data models, distributed systems)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Deeper expertise in one or more areas
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker/K8s)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
• Data Engineering: Spark, Kafka, Flink, BigQuery, streaming pipelines, ETL at scale
• Distributed Systems: High-volume scaling, fault tolerance, eventual consistency
• AI/ML: LLMs in production, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, inference optimization
• Backend: Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, high-concurrency systems

About the company

Clipbook reinvents how leaders listen to and engage with information from news, TV, podcast, social media, and internet data. The company has 200+ clients and recently raised a $3.3M seed round.