Backend Engineer

Development, London, UK

About the Team

Our AI Platform team drives the success and innovation of Miro’s AI-powered product vision. We are responsible for building the internal platform, tooling, and APIs that enable Miro’s product teams to seamlessly integrate and scale AI use cases. Our mission is to establish a robust and flexible technical foundation for AI innovation, enabling internal teams to move faster, build responsibly, and deliver world-class AI features to our users.

About the Role

As a Backend Engineer in our AI Platform team, you’ll play a crucial role in building and scaling the core that powers AI across Miro. You will help lay the technical foundation for how Miro builds, deploys, and serves AI/ML capabilities—supporting tens of millions of users as we evolve into an increasingly intelligent product. You’ll work on  internal tools that empower teams to experiment with and ship AI features quickly and responsibly, and data pipelines for AI use cases. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how AI is built and adopted across the company.
 

What you’ll do

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend services that support model training, inference, and experimentation
  • Develop tooling that improves reliability, reproducibility, and speed of AI development and deployment across Miro
  • Contribute to system architecture and infrastructure choices with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
  • Build scalable and efficient data pipelines to power AI insights and quality improvements
  • Help shape and drive technical strategy for Miro’s AI platform
  • Maintain high code quality through testing, code reviews, and automation

What you’ll need

  • 4+ years of backend engineering experience
  • Strong experience with Python, Java or Kotlin in production environments
  • Experience designing and maintaining scalable services
  • Familiarity with modern AI providers (AWS Bedrock, Open AI, Anthropic, etc)
  • Proficiency in modern development practices (CI/CD, observability, test automation)
  • A passion for building tooling that accelerates innovation
  • Strong ownership mindset and collaborative approach to problem-solving
  • Experience with ML Ops
  • Experience working in a product-led company or supporting AI in end-user features
  • Understanding of AI/ML concepts such as model training, validation, and evaluation metrics

What's in it for you

  • Competitive equity package
  • Health insurance for you and your family
  • Corporate pension plan
  • Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
  • Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
  • Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
  • Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team

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About Miro

Miro is a visual workspace for innovation that enables distributed teams of any size to build the next big thing. The platform's infinite canvas enables teams to lead engaging workshops and meetings, design products, brainstorm ideas, and more. Miro, co-headquartered in San Francisco and Amsterdam, serves more than 90M users and 250,000 companies collaborate in the Innovation Workspace. Miro was founded in 2011 and currently has more than 1,600 employees in 13 hubs around the world.

We are a team of dreamers. We look for individuals who dream big, work hard, and above all stay humble. Collaboration is at the heart of what we do and through our work together we hope to create a supportive, welcoming, and innovative environment. We strive to play as a team to win the world and create a better version of ourselves every day. If this sounds like something that excites you, we want to hear from you!

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At Miro, we strive to create and foster an environment of belonging and collaboration across cultural differences. Miro’s mission — Empower teams to create the next big thing — is how we think about our product, people, and culture. We believe that creating big things requires diverse and inclusive teams. Diversity invites all talent with different demography, identities and styles to step in, and inclusion invites them to step closer together. Every day, we are working to build a more diverse Miro, cultivate a sense of belonging for future and current Mironeers around the world, and foster an environment where everyone can collaborate and embrace differences.

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  • 01. Recruiter Screen

    A 30-min interview to discuss your relevant skills, perspective on resilience, experience, and what motivates you to join Miro.

  • 02. Hiring Manager

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