We at Focaldata are on a mission to close the "understanding gap" between what organizations believe about people and reality. By leveraging AI, we provide deeper, more accurate insights at a fraction of the cost and time of traditional methods.

Our current focus is building an AI co-worker for market research that revolutionizes consumer insights for brands, enabling faster, deeper decision-making. Focaldata AI deploys an agentic system to automate research – from designing studies to gathering data through automated quantitative surveys and qualitative interviews, and delivering actionable insights and reports rapidly.

To deliver this industry-defining product, we’re looking to expand the engineering team with a Senior Backend Engineer who will be instrumental in creating and defining our AI direction and strategy.

What you’ll be doing

In this role you will be part of the team of talented engineers building the intelligent system. If the below excite you - this is the role for you!

• Contribute to the overall architectural direction of the system
• Participate in defining the backend AI strategy. Which includes but not limited to:
  • Choosing the right tools for the job (data storage, foundation models, RAG techniques)
  • Collaborating with other engineers to define the architecture of the system (agents, tools and communication patterns)
  • Defining the framework of validation and evaluation of the AI system performance
• Designing the interface between the AI core system and the product code to enable product engineers interact with it in the most efficient and robust way.
• Advocate for engineering best practices

Who you are: skills and experience

We’re looking for strong backend engineers preferably with experience using LLM models in production. But more importantly we’re looking for experienced backend-oriented engineer with the skills like:

• 6+ years of engineering experience - strong back end in Python and its ecosystem.
• Experience working in a start-up or scale-up with a team of talented engineers and product managers.
• Experience and knowledge base around conversational patterns and techniques used in communication with LLMs.
• Ideally you previously delivered RAG-based and agents-based solutions in a product environment.
• Natural curiosity in ongoing trends in AI-domain and thinking how they can be applied to your ongoing work.
• Pragmatic and self-driven. Knows when to ask for help and when to push forward.

About Focaldata

At Focaldata, we’re building a new kind of tech-enabled research agency — that offers clients deep insight at the speed of software. You’ll get the opportunity to work alongside a highly collaborative team of researchers, client leads, engineers, data scientists and product specialists. We do impactful work with leading organisations, from brands like New Balance to campaign groups like Hope not Hate and non-profits like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Join us.

Focaldata is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the value of a diverse and inclusive workforce for our business, team and customers. We encourage all applications regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.