Backend Developer Salary in London

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Pearson

pearson.com
pearson.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • E-learning • EdTech Platforms • Publishing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1844 • Trust B • Hiring 137, 21 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • E-learning • EdTech Platforms • Publishing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 1844 • Trust B • Hiring 137, 21 new
Pearson is a London-based learning company that publishes educational courseware, runs assessments and qualifications, and provides digital learning, English-language and workforce skills services. Founded in 1844 and listed in London and New York, it employs more than 20,000 people, and its UK Assessment and Qualifications arm delivers nearly four million exam results a year, including GCSE, A-Level and BTEC. It hires for software and data engineering, product management, channel sales, partnership management, payroll, HR operations and tutoring roles across India, the UK, the US, Poland, Spain, Israel and the Philippines.
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Open 142 daysVerified live · 10 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 7%

Principal Software Engineer, AI Innovation

≈ $87k – $175k per year (Estimated) • Lead • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Principal
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G MASS Consulting

gmassconsulting.com
gmassconsulting.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Management Consulting • Recruiting & Staffing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023 • Trust A • Hiring 97, 5 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Management Consulting • Recruiting & Staffing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2023 • Trust A • Hiring 97, 5 new
Founded in 2023 as part of the Goodman Masson group, G MASS Consulting is a specialist resource augmentation and consulting firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company specializes in delivering targeted technical expertise and skills-mapping solutions for the financial services industry. Utilizing its proprietary Talent Analytics Engine, G MASS provides specialized services spanning operational resilience, regulatory compliance remediation, digital asset product launches, cross-border expansion support, and enterprise change and transformation management.
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Senior Software Engineer

up to $134k per year • Senior • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Java
Python
Databases
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
DevOps
Git
Linux
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Capsa AI

capsa.ai
capsa.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Artificial Intelligence • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 7, 1 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Artificial Intelligence • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 7, 1 new
Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
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Open 143 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsor 4 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Backend Engineer

≈ $93k – $180k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
RabbitMQ
OpenSearch
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Function Calling
VLM
OCR
Agentic Workflows
AI Agents
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Senior Fullstack Engineer

≈ $91k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 4+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
RabbitMQ
OpenSearch
Apache Kafka
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Function Calling
VLM
OCR
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HelmGuard

helmguard.ai
helmguard.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • AI Governance & Compliance • Security Compliance • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 4
HQ: London, United Kingdom • AI Governance & Compliance • Security Compliance • 11-50 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 4
Agentic Security & Compliance Platform. Save hours on compliance work with AI. Our AI agents monitor controls, manage third parties, govern other agents, and deliver reports, while your team reviews and signs off.
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Open 144 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 4 months ago Long shot · 7%

Founding Product Engineer

≈ $91k – $177k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Relocation • Full-Time • Senior
TypeScript
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LLM
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
Claude Code
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
React.js
DevOps
GitHub Actions
Terraform
Docker
Azure
Cybersecurity
Microsoft Entra ID
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Open 144 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 4 months ago Long shot · 6%

Founding Engineer, Agent Systems

≈ $76k – $185k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Relocation • Full-Time
TypeScript
Node JS
JavaScript
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Function Calling
LLM
AI Agents
Anthropic
OpenAI Codex
Claude Code
Frontend
Tailwind CSS
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Terraform
Docker
Azure
Cybersecurity
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Adarga

adarga.ai
adarga.ai • London • Herndon • Intelligence • Machine Learning • Hiring 2
London • Herndon • Intelligence • Machine Learning • Hiring 2
The Challenge. Our customers face more threats, more actors, more data, more speed, and more security risks. They are overloaded. Unable to make effective decisions fast enough in a world of machine speed intelligence.
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Open 145 daysVerified live · 24 min ago 4 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Software Engineer

≈ $92k – $178k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 7+ years exp • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Senior
Python
AI/ML
Multimodal AI
NLP
OpenAI Codex
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Diligent

diligentcorporation.com
diligentcorporation.com • HQ: New York, United States • RegTech, AML & Compliance • Security Compliance • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 31
HQ: New York, United States • RegTech, AML & Compliance • Security Compliance • 501-1000 employees • Est. 2001 • Trust B • Hiring 31
Diligent is a governance, risk and compliance software company headquartered in New York, whose Diligent One Platform gives boards, executives and GRC practitioners a consolidated view of risk, audit, compliance and board governance. The company reports more than 1 million users and 700,000 board members, owns brands such as 3rdRisk, and runs office hubs in Washington, Vancouver, London, Galway, Budapest, Munich, Bengaluru, Singapore and Sydney. It hires software engineers across Node.js, TypeScript, React, .NET, Ruby on Rails, C++ and Python, engineering managers, product managers, risk and audit advisory consultants and solution sales directors.
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Senior Software Engineer (Node.js, TypeScript)

≈ $81k – $156k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
SQL
JavaScript
AI/ML
LLM
Frontend
Angular
React.js
DevOps
Terraform
Git
Docker
CI/CD
AWS
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Headlands Technologies

headlandstech.com
headlandstech.com • HQ: New York, United States • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 51-200 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 7
HQ: New York, United States • Online Brokerage & Trading Platforms • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 51-200 employees • Est. 2015 • Trust B • Hiring 7
Headlands Technologies is a New York quantitative trading firm founded in 2015 that builds its own low-latency systems. Its engineers and researchers develop the pricing models and execution infrastructure used to make markets across asset classes. The company operates trading technology offices in several financial centres.
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Open 146 daysVerified live · 3 hours ago 4 months ago Long shot · 6%

Java Software Developer

≈ $109k – $235k per year (Estimated) • In office (Chicago, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom)
Java
C++
DevOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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C++ Software Developer

≈ $112k – $241k per year (Estimated) • In office (Chicago, New York, United States, London, United Kingdom)
C++
DevOps
Linux
Cybersecurity
GDPR
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PDT Partners

pdtpartners.com
pdtpartners.com • HQ: New York, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • Est. 2013 • Trust C • Hiring 10
HQ: New York, United States • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • Est. 2013 • Trust C • Hiring 10
PDT Partners is a quantitative asset management firm and hedge fund that applies scientific, data-driven methods to find inefficiencies in financial markets. It runs systematic trading strategies across global markets for institutional investors, built on research in statistics, machine learning, and computing. The firm originated as the Process Driven Trading group at Morgan Stanley led by Peter Muller, became independent in the early 2010s, and is based in New York City.
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Software Engineer

≈ $64k – $145k per year (Estimated) • Middle • 3+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Bachelor's Degree • Middle
CI/CD
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GSA Capital Partners

gsacapital.com
gsacapital.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 201-500 employees • Est. 2005 • Trust A • Hiring 9
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 201-500 employees • Est. 2005 • Trust A • Hiring 9
GSA Capital Partners is a quantitative hedge fund and systematic trading firm. It runs market-neutral and other systematic strategies in global equities, futures and other liquid markets, relying on statistical research, technology and automated execution. GSA was founded in 2005 by a team of quantitative traders from Deutsche Bank and is headquartered in London, with an additional office in New York.
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Open 149 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 5 months ago Long shot · 5%

Software Developer - Intern

Intern • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Internship • Intern
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Open 415 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 1 year ago Long shot · 4%

Software Developer

≈ $71k – $173k per year (Estimated) • In office (London, United Kingdom)
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Duffel

duffel.com
duffel.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Travel Technology • 51-200 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Travel Technology • 51-200 employees • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
Any business – from travel startups to financial enterprises - can build with Duffel to search and book flights, stays, add ancillaries, charge customers, manage orders and more.
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Open 150 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 10%

Software Engineer (Backend)

≈ $75k – $183k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Elixir
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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We are Sequence HQ Ltd

sequencehq.com
sequencehq.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 8
Sequence automates billing for every custom contract. Get a complete platform for Finance teams to unlock error-free revenue collection at scale. For software companies with custom contracts and hybrid pricing.
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Open 151 daysVerified live · 26 min ago Visa sponsorship 5 months ago Long shot · 8%

Senior Product Engineer (Backend) - London

$154k – $174k per year • Equity • Senior • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Kotlin
TypeScript
Java
JavaScript
Java
Spring Boot
Kotlin
Exposed
Http4k
Databases
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Terraform
GCP
Management
Linear
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Sentry
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Open 238 daysVerified live · 26 min ago Visa sponsorship 7 months ago Long shot · 3%

Product Engineer - London

$120k – $134k per year • Equity • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Kotlin
TypeScript
Java
JavaScript
Java
Spring Boot
Kotlin
Exposed
Http4k
Databases
Google BigQuery
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
AI Agents
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
GitHub
Terraform
GCP
Management
Linear
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Sentry
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Zalos

zalos.ai
zalos.ai • HQ: San Francisco, United States • Accounting & Tax Software • AI Agents • 11-50 employees • Startup • Hiring 1
HQ: San Francisco, United States • Accounting & Tax Software • AI Agents • 11-50 employees • Startup • Hiring 1
Zalos is a software company that builds AI workforces to run finance workflows across fragmented systems. Its computer agents log into a customer's ERP, map the processes, automate them and improve over time, and the company hires founding full stack engineers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, United States.
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Open 151 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 6%

Founding Full-Stack Engineer

≈ $75k – $182k per year (Estimated) • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Function Calling
Structured Outputs
Computer Use
LLM
AI Agents
Fine-tuning
RLHF
Browser Agents
Management
ServiceNow
QA
Playwright
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Beyond Sports

beyondsports.nl
beyondsports.nl • London • Budapest • Alkmaar • Melbourne • Sports Analytics • Fan Engagement • 51-200 employees • Trust B • Hiring 27
London • Budapest • Alkmaar • Melbourne • Sports Analytics • Fan Engagement • 51-200 employees • Trust B • Hiring 27
Beyond Sports is a data visualization company operating at the intersection of sports, technology, and immersive storytelling. The company helps sports rightsholders create innovative experiences that resonate with the next generation of sports fans through the power of data.
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Open 156 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago 5 months ago Long shot · 12%

Software Architect - Machine Learning

≈ $146k – $259k per year (Estimated) • Staff+ • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Architect
MLFlow
Time Series
PyTorch
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Game Dev
Unity
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Seamflow

seamflow.com
seamflow.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • Testing, Inspection & Certification • 1-10 employees • Est. 2025 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 7
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • Testing, Inspection & Certification • 1-10 employees • Est. 2025 • Startup • Trust B • Hiring 7
Seamflow is the AI-native operating system for testing, inspection, and certification (TIC) organizations. Automate MDR technical file reviews, notified body workflows, and certification processes — turning months into hours.
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Open 157 daysVerified live · 2 hours ago Visa sponsorship 5 months ago Long shot · 4%

Product Engineer

≈ $75k – $183k per year (Estimated) • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Relocation • Full-Time
Rust
TypeScript
C++
Python
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CDP

cdp.net
cdp.net • HQ: London, United Kingdom • ESG & Carbon Accounting Software • Nonprofits & Foundations • 501-1000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 9
HQ: London, United Kingdom • ESG & Carbon Accounting Software • Nonprofits & Foundations • 501-1000 employees • Trust A • Hiring 9
CDP can support your environmental journey – turning data into Earth-positive impact. The world’s only independent environmental disclosure system.
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Open 159 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 5 months ago Long shot · 11%

Senior Software Engineer

$94k – $107k per year • Senior • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Node JS
TypeScript
Python
C#
JavaScript
C#
.NET
DevOps
Azure DevOps
Terraform
Azure
Analytics
Azure Data Factory
Power BI
Management
Agile
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Open 208 daysVerified live · 1 hour ago 7 months ago Long shot · 7%

Principal Engineer

$106k – $132k per year • Lead • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Principal
Node JS
C#
JavaScript
C#
.NET
Node JS
Nest.JS
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
Azure
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TransitionZero

transitionzero.org
transitionzero.org • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Nonprofits & Foundations • Energy Management • Est. 2020 • Hiring 3, 1 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Nonprofits & Foundations • Energy Management • Est. 2020 • Hiring 3, 1 new
TransitionZero is a non-profit climate analytics organisation that builds data and modelling tools for the energy transition. Its Scenario Builder is an in-browser platform for electricity grid capacity expansion and dispatch modelling with a no-code interface. The organisation is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
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Lead Engineer (Back-End)

≈ $99k – $200k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 7+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
Python
FastAPI
Databases
Firestore
Redis
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
Pandas
NumPy
DevOps
Docker
GCP
CI/CD
Terragrunt
GitOps
Terraform
Management
Scrum
Agile
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Capital on Tap

capitalontap.com
capitalontap.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Procurement & Spend Management • Business & SME Lending • Cards & Card Issuing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Trust A • Hiring 33, 5 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Procurement & Spend Management • Business & SME Lending • Cards & Card Issuing • 1001-5000 employees • Est. 2012 • Trust A • Hiring 33, 5 new
Capital on Tap is a financial technology company headquartered in London, United Kingdom, and was founded in 2012. The company provides business credit cards and spend management platforms specifically designed for small and medium-sized enterprises, offering features such as uncapped cashback, high-yield savings accounts, and integration with accounting software. It operates primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States, serving over 350,000 business customers and processing more than 40 billion pounds in transactions to date.
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Senior Software Engineer

≈ $81k – $157k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Senior
C#
TypeScript
SQL
Dart
JavaScript
C#
.NET
Frontend
React.js
Mobile
Flutter
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Azure
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Ankar

ankar.ai
ankar.ai • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Legal Software • Legal AI • 51-200 employees • Startup • Trust C • Hiring 12
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Legal Software • Legal AI • 51-200 employees • Startup • Trust C • Hiring 12
For the patent teams protecting what's next. Trusted by Fortune 500 and AmLaw100 firms for the high-stakes work of protecting innovation.
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Product Engineer

$128k – $214k per year • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time
Hugging Face
OpenAI
DevOps
Datadog
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Senior Product Engineer

$214k – $401k per year • Senior • Hybrid (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Senior
Hugging Face
OpenAI
DevOps
Datadog
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Patent Product Engineer

≈ $55k – $127k per year (Estimated) • Junior • 2+ years exp • In office (London, United Kingdom, New York, United States) • Bachelor's Degree • Full-Time • Junior
Hugging Face
OpenAI
DevOps
Datadog
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Man Group

man.com
man.com • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Asset Management & Funds • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1783 • Trust B • Hiring 60, 10 new
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Asset Management & Funds • Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments • 501-1000 employees • Est. 1783 • Trust B • Hiring 60, 10 new
Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm headquartered in London that runs systematic, discretionary and multi-manager strategies for pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional clients. The firm traces its origins to a sugar brokerage founded in 1783, is listed on the London Stock Exchange and operates investment engines including Man AHL, Man Numeric and Man GLG, with offices in New York, Boston, Hong Kong, Tokyo and several European cities. Hiring spans quantitative researchers, software and data engineers, portfolio and risk specialists, institutional sales staff and corporate functions.
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Senior Python Engineer - Real- Time Data

≈ $95k – $184k per year (Estimated) • Senior • 5+ years exp • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Senior
Java
Python
Databases
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
AI Agents
DevOps
Git
Linux
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Circuit Mind

circuitmind.io
circuitmind.io • HQ: London, United Kingdom • Machine Learning • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 2
HQ: London, United Kingdom • Machine Learning • Manufacturing & Industrial Software • 51-200 employees • Est. 2018 • Startup • Hiring 2
Transform electronics design with AI-powered automation. Generate schematics & BOMs in 60 seconds. Trusted by leading engineering teams to accelerate product development.
Akintomide Adesanmi · Executive Officer, Director · decision-maker
Simon Murdoch · Director
Basilio Gentile · Director
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Open 169 daysVerified live · 4 hours ago Visa sponsor 5 months ago Long shot · 9%

Lead Software Engineer (Python) - London

≈ $99k – $200k per year (Estimated) • Lead • 5+ years exp • In office (London, United Kingdom) • Full-Time • Staff
Python
TypeScript
Python
Django
Mypy
Databases
Redis
PostgreSQL
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GraphQL
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Backend Developer Salary in London
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