Join Kernel as an in‑office, backend‑savvy Senior Software Engineer to own and scale our AWS/Kubernetes stack and ship features fast, earning £120‑200k + equity with visa sponsorship if needed, via a 5‑step hiring flow (intro chat tech screen 2‑hr take‑home onsite deep‑dive founder values interview) at a high‑growth, product‑focused startup.
Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £120,000 – £200,000 a year
Location: London, United Kingdom
Role – Sr. Engineer
You’re a well-versed “T-shaped” software engineer with a spike in backend engineering. You’ll be working with the product and engineering team on building the product in general, but will help support our existing infrastructure, ensuring we can scale in an efficient manner. You don’t have to be a DevOps wizard, but some experience working with AWS and Kubernetes would very helpful.
You’re adaptable, often taking initiative to identify and tackle tasks autonomously, and you enjoy making valuable contributions at pace. The lean nature of the team means you thrive in a low-structure environment, and having the ability to communicate clearly is very important.
You Would Ideally Have The Following
- 6+ years of software engineering experience
- Experience working in an early stage start-up
- A well-rounded software engineering toolkit
- The ability to work independently and autonomously
- The ability to operate in a small team with shifting priorities
- Some experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience working with large volumes of data
It would be a plus if you also have experience in:
- LLM experience, such as building RAG-models and prompt engineering and familiarity with the main foundation models on the market
- Some front-end experience
What you’ll be doing
Kernel provides customization at scale, which means we process millions of accounts, collect terabytes of data, and run tens of thousands of executions in parallel.
Your role will be to own our back-end infrastructure – everything from AWS to our workflow automations in n8n – helping us scale from $1M to $10M ARR.
We are still in early stages of building out our infrastructure which means you have the opportunity to play a key role in shaping what we build and how we build it.
More Specifically You Will Be
- Working on ensuring a world-class, scalable back-end infrastructure.
- Working daily with the team to move us toward our next goal
- Rapidly shipping features to users and to our internal team
- Continuously evaluating our code, infrastructure, and processes to see if they meet our needs, always looking for ways to improve
- Automating our manual processes
- Sharing feedback on roadmap direction and ideas on bets to place / potential solutions.
Note
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Application Process
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