What We Do

Conduct is reinventing how enterprises run their legacy software, solving a multi-billion-dollar problem at the core of global business and manufacturing. While the world’s largest enterprises still rely on decades-old systems, we bring them back to the technological frontier.

Our AI platform transforms weeks of manual system analysis into instant insights, turning customization chaos into clarity. We help industry leaders such as Daimler Truck ($40bn+ revenue) and Rittal ($3bn+ revenue) cut millions in IT costs, accelerate ERP project timelines by months, and unlock revenue faster with smarter systems.

We’re beginning with SAP, but that’s only the start. At Conduct, we are pioneering a new era of Enterprise System Intelligence and are on a mission to transform the entire enterprise stack.

Role Summary

Whilst Conduct scales with more enterprise customers, we’re looking for pragmatic, high-agency backend engineers to help us build our core platform and backend services. This is a high-impact opportunity if you’re eager to shape foundational infrastructure in a fast-moving startup.

We are building a SaaS platform for large enterprises capable of processing tens of millions of lines of code from each customer, resulting in large-scale LLM workloads. This volume combined with the stringent requirements of our enterprise customer profile presents exciting challenges in a fast-growing, high-performance environment.

You’ll be one of the first hires focused on backend platform and infrastructure, giving you outsized influence over Conduct’s technical landscape with broad ownership across architecture, developer experience, internal tooling, and production systems.

From large-scale batch job infrastructure, backend service implementation, through to local developer tooling, you’ll help us meet the reliability and robustness requirements for our next phase while keeping product teams fast and empowered.

This role is ideal for those who thrive in ambiguity, enjoy building from first principles, and are excited to leverage infrastructure as a multiplier. If you’ve worked on scaling complex systems or LLM workloads under pressure, and want to help a startup punch above its weight, we’d love to talk.

Why This Role

• Accelerate product teams: We need a platform that helps engineers move fast without tripping over complexity. You will allow product engineers to focus on just that: product.
• Scale with confidence: We’re onboarding larger customers using us in critical production workflows. You will design and maintain infrastructure that holds up as we grow, scales without becoming fragile, and meets stringent reliability requirements.
• Tame LLM infra: High token throughput, real-time usage, flaky providers…LLM infra is hard. We need infrastructure to make it reliable, and you’ll get us there.
• Raise the floor, not just the ceiling: From auth to observability to job orchestration, we need defaults and abstractions that compound. You will have the experience and technical intuition to help us create well-designed, high-quality systems.

Profile

You should:

• Have 3+ years’ backend experience, ideally with exposure to backend software or platform/infrastructure responsibilities
• Have worked at high-velocity startups, seeing the shift from MVP to robust, scalable systems first-hand.
• Have strong system design skills, owning problems end-to-end across APIs, infra, and data flows without handing off parts of work to others.
• Be experienced in distributed systems, queueing, and large-scale batch processing.
• Be pragmatic and resourceful, comfortable making trade-offs and moving fast under ambiguity
• Be familiar with LLM infrastructure at scale: token routing, provider failover, quota handling, and more.
• Have built internal tooling or APIs that improved developer workflows and delivery speed.
• Set a quality bar, share context, and help others move faster - not just through code but by improving systems and mentoring the team.
• Operate autonomously in lean teams and fix problems without waiting for permission.
• Be happy working in person with the team in our Fitzrovia, London office by default to build an exceptional company together.

Technologies

We’re an engineering team that values strong engineering fundamentals over knowledge of specific technologies. Here is a snapshot of what technologies we employ today within our platform, which will evolve over time:

• Languages: Our core languages include Kotlin and TypeScript, and ABAP is used for components installed directly into customer systems, but none of these are required prior experience.
• Infrastructure: Deployed primarily on Azure, with multi-cloud integrations to support external services such as LLM providers across AWS, GCP, and others. All infrastructure is managed via Terraform, with a strong commitment to infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Job Orchestration: The platform involves distributed systems, queueing, and batch processing co-ordinated on Temporal.
• LLM Integration: Our system includes high-throughput LLM workloads via an LLM gateway. Our setup combines both real-time and asynchronous patterns across multiple models and LLM providers.
• Data Layer: We use Postgres and graph databases to model complex relationships across enterprise systems, with support for structured and unstructured data.
• Observability & Reliability: As we scale, we’re expanding our metrics and observability capabilities. Current tooling is based on OpenTelemetry and Grafana.
• Authentication & APIs: Our platform is multi-tenant. Maintaining a secure setup and integrating with enterprise-grade access control (e.g. SSO) is a priority. We use OpenAPI specifications to keep our API servers and ABAP clients synchronized.
• Developer Experience: Containerized deployment enables local-first development, and infrastructure-as-code enables reproducibility and autonomy. Engineers are empowered to shape workflows and tooling to support a high-velocity team, with several internal tools developed on the Retool platform and as CLIs.
• Testing Philosophy: CI/CD pipelines run unit and integration tests, as well as automated deployments via GitHub Actions. Engineers are responsible for end-to-end quality, using appropriate testing strategies to ensure reliability, correctness, and maintainability.

Working at Conduct

We’re a high-energy, high-trust team with big ambitions. Our culture blends focus, intensity, and humour: we’re serious about impact, but never take ourselves too seriously. We’re here to build a generational company, and we know that means pushing past limits while enjoying the ride together.

In our Fitzrovia office, collaboration is fast and constant. Everyone owns their outcomes and takes initiative, but we succeed only as a team. We believe in learning fast, supporting each other radically, and finding joy in the process.

Benefits

We know that supported, healthy, and happy Conductors are at the heart of making Conduct an incredible and fulfilling place to work. Our benefits package reflects this belief.

• Generous cash compensation.
• Share options under the tax-efficient EMI scheme.
• Breakfast and dinner every day in the office.
• A truly unparalleled snack selection.
• Biannual full-team offsites.
• Regular socials.
• Broad private health insurance including dental and optical cover.
• Monthly wellbeing payment on top of your salary to spend as you see fit.
• Take-what-you-need leave policy.
• Pension salary sacrifice reinvestment scheme.
• We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship.
• We’re committed to diversity and inclusion and encourage applications from people of all identities and communities.

Seniority

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Software Development