Location
Remote with frequent trips to London. This role requires spending at least one week per month in London, primarily working from our London office in Belgravia.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
$100,000 - $170,000 plus meaningful equity

About the Role
Aurora is the Lifestyle Operating System empowering the world’s highest-performing individuals. We reverse the trend of consumer technology optimized against the user by leveraging millions of data points to deliver the right recommendation at the right time. Our members include tier-1 founders, executives, and athletes who rely on Aurora daily to navigate travel, health, dining, experiences, and premium goods with expert judgment.

We are expanding our founding engineering team as we scale the product and member base. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will work closely with the CTO and a world-class engineering team to design and build Aurora’s backend systems including APIs, background processing, agent orchestration, and data pipelines that support proactive, AI-driven behavior.

This is a hands-on role with high ownership, taking features from idea to production and ensuring system reliability as usage grows. You will report directly to the CTO and have the opportunity to grow into broader technical or leadership roles as the company scales. We ship high-polish, high-leverage products to a discerning customer base and operate with urgency and pragmatism.

Many of our early team members have ambitions to be founders, and we view Aurora as a high-performance startup academy where you will personally drive the evolution of a high-growth product from its earliest stages. Join us to make a meaningful impact.

Experience
- 5+ years building and operating production backend systems
- Strong, hands-on experience with Python and Django
- Deep familiarity with Django and DRF, including common pitfalls
- Strong SQL skills with schema design and performance tuning
- Experience with background job systems, ideally Celery
- Experience working with LLMs or AI infrastructure
- Exposure to agent-based systems or RAG pipelines
- Experience running cloud-native systems, ideally on GCP
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
- Experience operating services in production, not just building them

About You
- You care about how systems are used, not just how they’re built
- Think in terms of reliability, latency, and failure modes
- Comfortable making trade-offs and explaining them clearly
- Able to work closely with product, design, and other engineers
- Clear communicator who takes ownership and follows things through
- Willingness to be in-person and near the customer regularly

Qualifications
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 is a plus
- Basic understanding of frontend or mobile stacks (Flutter, Vue) is desirable
- Commitment to secure coding practices and supporting compliance efforts