Product-Focused Backend Engineer – Functional Programming & Distributed Systems London (Hybrid) | £120,000–£160,000 Equity At Ncounter, we’re partnering with a cutting-edge AI company on a mission to redefine how professionals in highly regulated industries interact with complex, multi-modal data. Their platform empowers users to deploy custom no-code AI agents that produce verifiable outputs with full transparency - ensuring trust, compliance, and control remain central to every decision. As a Backend Engineer, you’ll join a growing team working at the forefront of AI infrastructure. This isn’t just about clean code or strong delivery - it’s about ownership, product intuition, and building for scale. You’ll be part of a lean, high-calibre engineering function where every member contributes to planning, testing, analysis, and execution. What You’ll Be Doing: Building and evolving APIs that serve as the backbone for internal systems and customer-facing applications Scaling the platform to support heavy, multi-tenant usage patterns and high-throughput AI workloads Applying foundation models (GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 1.5 and successors) to real-world, multi-modal data challenges Shipping to production daily in collaboration with Product and Design to solve real user problems Playing an active role in shaping team goals, defining techni...