Backend Engineer (Elixir) at V7 Labs

V7 turns data into trustworthy AI, powering products that solve our customer's toughest problems. Our flagship product, V7 Darwin, helps companies accelerate the process of building trustworthy AI models, while our generative AI platform, V7 Go, lets customers build multi-modal solutions, with scaleable, reliable, and no-code workflows.

V7 Recently raised a $33m Series A from Geoff Hinton’s (Inventor of AI as we know it) Radical Ventures, and are backed by some of the best minds in AI, from Ashish Vaswani (Invented Transformers, the basis of GPT) Oriol Vinyals (Google Deepmind and Gemini co-lead), Christian Szegedy (X.ai) and AI leadership at Amazon, X, Isomorphic, and Google. V7 is used to power AI’s rollout at Fortune 500 organisations including Sony, Boston Scientific and Genentech.

Take a tour of our new product you’d be working on here*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGN8dnLo9o4

Software Engineers at V7 ensure that complex operations involving – think applying foundation models like Gemini Pro to enable complex analyses across large financial documents - are performed reliably and efficiently at scale. The Backend Engineer role holds significant influence, shaping the trajectory of the company's future in close collaboration with the Founders.

Some of the responsibilities you will tackle are:

• Enable foundation models to be applied to multimodal data at scale
• Scale our platform to meet challenging multi tenant usage patterns
• Maintain a rich suite of APIs to power all our internal and B2B clients
• Ship to production multiple times a day, working in tandem with PMs/Designers to solve user problems

Our BE is in Elixir (Erlang) with Phoenix, and FE is Vue.js. Our deep learning framework of choice is Pytorch. We don't expect you to know Pytorch. If you don't know Elixir, that's ok, but you'll have to learn it. (some of our team members had no Elixir experience when they started and had no problem learning it).

Requirements:

• A Degree in Computer Science, or similar.
• 4+ years experience as a Backend Engineer with strong architectural design skills.
• Experience with functional programming. Familiarity with Elixir is a plus, but other languages like Haskell, Clojure, Scala and F# are also great.
• Infrastructure management experience at scale; you should be comfortable in using AWS and terraform.
• Proficiency in queue management and observability.
• Experience with orchestration tools like Docker.
• Knowledge of GenAI and prompt engineering is a plus.
• You thrive most during the initial years of a company's inception, particularly relishing the dynamics of small team environments.
• Customer-centricity is paramount. Engineers are integral to every stage of the delivery process, necessitating a strong product focus. We value individuals who are passionate about their craft and are equally invested in addressing product and technical challenges.
• Fluent in english

What’s in it for you:

• V7 were named as Linkedin’s No2 top startup in the UK in 2023 and 8th on Sifted’s top 100 fastest growing startup UK/I list 2024
• Take a look at the launch of V7 Go here in 1 min video
• Top 15% quartile equity options plan through an EMI scheme
• Private Healthcare via Vitality
• Unlimited vacation, just tell us when you need time off
• Learning and Development wallet
• Monthly well being and mental health budget
• Personalised benefits platform via Thanks Ben
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days paid holiday with unlimited additional days
• 4-day company-wide and 4 day departmental retreats in stunning locations
• Visit London to meet us in our HQ. We have a barista & plenty of snacks
• Hybrid working with flexibility or remote working
• Temporary work from anywhere for one month in the calendar year
• Paid tickets, accommodation, and travel to relevant conferences, nationally or internationally (NeurIPS, ICCV, CVPR, ...) to expand your network & knowledge during normal times
• Apple hardware provided plus a budget for home office equipment
• Passionate about DEI and want to make a difference for yourself and others in the workplace? Us too! We have group leaders and allies championing the importance of diversity in 2024 who are always on the lookout for more allies and/or co-leads!