Software Engineer (Python / AI / React) | £65-85k + Equity | Remote UK/EU I'm recruiting for a profitable AI travel startup building a platform to discover and book luxury hotels, villas, yachts and private flights, with intelligent search and personalised recommendations at its core.
You' ll be joining an engineering team led by a hands-on CTO (worked for Microsoft, startups and hedge funds
- build the inhouse machine learning models himself) as well as a founding engineer who built products used by millions at Spotify.
The challenge? Building the systems that power the platform as it scales.
What you'll own: Python / FastAPI: Integrating multiple travel suppliers, handling real-time pricing, availability and API reliability.
PostgreSQL: Designing the data architecture, normalising messy supplier data and matching duplicate properties.
Redis / GCP: Caching, deployment, infrastructure and performance.
AI search: Building retrieval and recommendation features using LLMs, embeddings and structured data.
React / TypeScript: Contributing across the frontend when needed. It's a three-person engineering team, so everyone gets involved.
Who they're looking for: A backend-leaning full-stack engineer with 4+ years' experience, ideally from a successful startup, scaleup or high-calibre technology company.
You' ll have designed and deployed production backend systems, be confident with databases and architecture, and have enough frontend experience to build features end to end.
Experience with AI-powered products, consumer platforms, marketplaces or e-commerce is a big plus.
Not a pure frontend, ML or data engineering role. They want someone who can own the backend architecture, write excellent code and contribute wherever the product needs them.
Paying £65-85k + equity | Fully remote anywhere in Europe