Software Engineer, Backend - UK

About Ema

Ema is building the world’s leading Agentic AI platform to transform enterprise productivity. We enable organizations to delegate repetitive tasks to Ema , the Universal AI Employee, delivering 10x gains in workforce efficiency, across functions. Founded by former executives from Google, Coinbase, Flipkart, and Okta, our team includes engineers from premier tech companies and graduates of Stanford, MIT, UC Berkeley, CMU, and IITs.

We are backed by industry leading investors including Accel, Naspers/Prosus, Section32, and angels like Sheryl Sandberg and Dustin Moskovitz. Headquartered in Silicon Valley and with offices in London, Bangalore and Vancouver and Bangalore, Ema is at the frontier of what Agentic AI can do in production — we ship real systems that run real business processes at scale.

Who are you?

We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Software Engineer to join the Ema team in UK. As an Enterprise Software Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our enterprise software applications. You will work with a cross-functional team of product managers, designers, and developers to deliver high-quality software solutions that meet the needs of our enterprise clients. The ideal candidate has experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. Most importantly, you are excited to be part of a mission-oriented, fast-paced, high-growth startup that can create a lasting impact.

You will:

Develop and maintain enterprise software applications, including API, data, application, and service development

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code by employing test-driven development process.

Build scalable and reliable back-end systems using languages like Go and Python.

Develop and maintain APIs using REST, gRPC or GraphQL

Integrate multiple enterprise applications and services using a scalable framework like FastAPI

Build and maintain data schema using PostgreSQL, NoSQL etc.

Knowledge of front-end interfaces using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks such as React or Angular.

Design data pipelines for ML using DE stack ; event driven technologies like Temporal and Kafka. Work with foundational LLMs across OpenAI. Gemini and Claude.

Ensure that applications are secure and adhere to industry best practices.

Able to design and develop enterprise grade features / modules using SOLID principles and best practices around software engineering.

Develop high availability, low latency enterprise grade software products using Agentic Architecture, LLMs and RAG technology.

Continuously improve software development processes and practices.

Ideally, you'd have:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

At least 7+ years of releva