About the team 🚀:

Aluma are hiring two Senior Backend Engineers to join our team, working alongside the CTO during the business’s next period of growth.

It’s an exciting time for Aluma. We have a quickly-growing customer base with a market who are excited about our product. We have built an exceptionally strong reputation for a platform with industry-leading performance and intuitive user experience combined with close partnerships with our customers, many of whom rely on Aluma for their businesses to run effectively.

The platform has been built on very solid technical foundations over several years and the company is profitable and secure. Our proven technology and success in the market have provided us with the opportunity to scale the team and exploit the potential to disrupt a stagnant market with old, expensive, under-performing competitors.👀

🔥 This is a crucial role within the business and a great opportunity to accelerate your career in a fast growing scale-up. You’ll work alongside experienced, pragmatic and friendly colleagues and provide technical and leadership capabilities that allow Aluma to scale the development team over the next two years and beyond.

This is a primarily-remote role, however we value time together and aim to have two back-to-back days roughly every 4-6 weeks where we meet in one place to work and socialise. This will either be in Cambridge or a rotating location in the South or East of England. You will therefore need to be able to travel and ideally will have a car to make this easier.

The role:

You’ll have the opportunity to work on all aspects of our platform - back-end services, core technology (and our web apps if you want to) - working closely with our customer success team to make sure the platform is working well for our customers and staying highly-responsive to their needs.

You’ll bring your experience working on a cloud service or comparable system to help us solve the technical and operational challenges that come with scaling, develop exciting new features and products and help us build the team further once we’re ready.

Joining a very experienced and talented but small team, you’ll have a high level of responsibility and influence very quickly. We have a low-ego environment where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and we make decisions based on evidence, not seniority.

We’ve chosen technologies that solve our challenges and are rewarding (and fast) to work with. Our backend services are written in Go with PostgreSQL databases, deployed on Kubernetes in GCP and AWS, with redis, temporal.io, timescale and a few other third party services. Some of our core technology is written in C# and C++. Our web apps are written in Svelte and Typescript. We try to ensure the dev and test loop is short and frictionless.

What we’re looking for in you:

• 10+ years of commercial Engineering experience, preferably with exposure to a dynamic start-up or scale-up environment.
• Experience developing and operating a cloud service or complex system.
• 2+ years experience programming with Go in a business environment.
• 10+ years experience using one or more of Go, C#, Java, C or C++.
• A good sense of what it takes to build a reliable, scalable, maintainable product but the flexibility to move fast when we are prototyping or customers have problems we need to solve quickly.
• The ability to take ownership of a piece of work (large or small) and drive it to completion, working collaboratively to explore questions and decisions that need to be made along the way.
• Comfortable working in a linux development environment.
• Experience mentoring less-experienced engineers (we’ll want you to do this as we grow the team).
• A strong customer focus and desire for everything that you do to be directly helping our customers or winning us new ones.
• Experience using AI agents as part of the development process and enthusiasm for pushing the boundaries on how to get the most out of this.
• Strong skills and interest in either the ops side of DevOps (observability, infrastructure, deployments etc.) or user experience & UI design.
• Happy to join our on-call rota, once you are up to speed.
• Adaptable and open-minded about how your role evolves as we grow the business.
• Personable and highly motivated.

If you have a keen interest in working within a small, friendly, highly successful business, offering flexibility and solid career prospects, then this role may be the perfect fit for you!

Hit apply and let’s get the ball rolling.

Recruitment process:

1. Informal chat with Mark, the CTO (video)
2. A technical test where we’ll do a screenshare and ask you to diagnose and explain problems in some code examples (in a language you’re comfortable with).
3. Technical interview with Mark and Phil, the lead engineer (video). This will include: a technical test where we’ll do a screenshare and ask you to diagnose and explain problems in some code examples; you talking us through a service or system that you’ve worked on and discussing the technical challenges involved at high and low level; exploring your skills and experience. We’ll plan the detail of this on an individual basis.
4. Interview with Mark and George, the CEO (who is technical and leads R&D of our core technology).
5. Meet and greet/joint working session in Cambridge with Mark, Phil and George.

Electrify Video Partners is a dynamic new digital media company that invests in and scales creators with an established YouTube presence. Our mission is to turn creators into global media businesses by building teams, scaling the production and distribution of their content and introducing new revenue streams across platforms. We acquire between 50% and 100% of creator businesses. We have raised multiple funding rounds and have invested in a variety of leading channels, including Veritasium, Mentour Pilot, Simple History, Astrum & Astrum Earth, and Fern.

We are building a decentralized global team to power our business and are looking for A-players who share our vision and values and want to play a part in driving the business forward on its exciting journey. Come and build the future of media with Electrify!

About the role

At Electrify, we’re committed to putting data and technology at the heart of our decision making - that’s why we’re seeking an Applied AI Engineer to work directly with some of the most exciting creators and channels on YouTube.

Reporting directly to the Director of Data and Technology, you’ll be responsible for building agentic workflows and data pipelines to optimise our creators’ performance and growth.

What your first 6 months may look like:

Launch an internal agentic tool aimed at improving efficiency and quality.

Improve the speed and reliability of our data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build and ship production-grade agentic workflows in Python (ideally using LangGraph).

Support CI/CD and infra for AI services (ideally using Docker, Cloud Run & GitHub Actions).

Optimise the cost and performance of AI services.

Run experiments (A/B testing, user studies) on AI services, analyse impact and feed insights back into the roadmap.

Uphold code quality (typing, tests, linting), lead reviews and mentor teammates on best practices.

Document playbooks and create reusable components to speed up feature integration across teams.

Contribute to the development, testing and maintenance of fast, reliable data pipelines when required.

Skills and experience

BSc in a STEM subject.

Minimum of 3 years of experience as an AI/ML/Data Engineer.

Experience in applying LLMs and developing, testing and deploying agentic systems in Python (ideally LangGraph)

Deep knowledge of Python and relevant libraries (LangChain, LangGraph, FastAPI, Pydantic, etc)

Experience in designing, building, testing, deploying and maintaining data pipelines (ideally using Airflow/Cloud Composer)

Experience in deploying DevOps processes (Github, Docker, CI/CD in GitHub Actions, deploying in GCP)

Experience working with GCP (especially Cloud Run)

English fluency & strong communication skills (especially converting technical information to a non-technical audience)

Desirable

MSc in a STEM subject

Developing/deploying/testing RAG systems

Experience in the digital content or media sector (ideally YouTube).

Experience mentoring junior team members

Electrify Culture

Dynamic environment - We are dedicated to providing a world-class creative culture where our employees can thrive. We’re looking for self-starters with an entrepreneurial mindset who want to be part of our success story. You’ll discover new opportunities, take ownership of important initiatives and learn at a fast pace.

Work anywhere - We are a remote team with employees around the world. This means you are free to work from anywhere with a good internet connection.

Our Values – We are committed to fostering a culture that values innovative thinking and the ability to drive positive change.

Force for good - We believe in leveraging the power of Electrify to change lives and have set up our Creator Foundation. For each established creator that we invest in, we will provide both the cash and production support for an emerging creator to produce and distribute a video that tells an important story linked to one of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We actively encourage your involvement in these projects.

What we offer

Competitive salary

Work from anywhere with an allowance for tech

Flexible hours

Employee referral program

The opportunity to work in a vibrant and innovative environment

A supportive and collaborative team

Electrify is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We provide employment opportunities without regard to age, race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or

expression, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.