Lead Engineer - AI Studio

Requirements:

• 6+ years of backend engineering experience, including distributed system design and high-scale platform development.
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) for building high-performance, concurrent backend services, alongside Node/NestJS experience.
• Hands-on experience building and operating edge/serverless services with Cloudflare Workers and Cloudflare KV (or comparable edge compute and distributed key-value stores).
• Deep expertise in event-driven architectures, asynchronous workflows, and high-throughput data pipelines.
• Strong command of relational (PostgreSQL) and NoSQL data models, query optimisation, and complex transactional data.
• Fluency in LLM integrations, vector search, embeddings, RAG patterns, and generative AI frameworks.
• Familiarity with front-end architecture using Vue and a solid understanding of UI/UX principles.

Operational Excellence:

• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for production systems.
• Strong instincts for scaling, latency optimisation, and reliability under real-world load.

AI and LLM Safety:

• Experience implementing structured generation, verification layers, retrieval-based grounding, and guardrails to reduce hallucinations.
• Understanding of prompt engineering patterns, context injection, and model evaluation.

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional communication and cross-functional leadership capabilities.
• Pragmatic decision-making with a balance of long-term vision and iterative execution.