Staff/Lead Backend Engineer

About the Position

Staff/Lead Backend Engineer

About Mimica

Mimica's mission is to empower enterprises, teams, and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource - time and work more efficiently, with greater purpose and impact. Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations and transforming work.

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Responsibilities

In this role, you will own and support the development of backend systems that interface with ML models. You will build apps and core components of our ML systems, deliver new AI features, and drive improvements to our infrastructure and services. You will be part of one of our teams:

• Data Intelligence Team: Support our data orchestration and processing pipeline, ensuring scalability.
• Miner Team: Support the automation and scalability of the existing ML systems that back up our Miner product.
• Maker Team: Be a founding member of the team building out the automation engine, shaping its architecture, experimentation, and development.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience as a Software Engineer, with previous Lead/Staff/Principal level responsibilities.
• Strong proficiency with Python and Backend-Engineering.
• Strong experience with async/concurrent programming.
• Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release, and monitoring.
• Strong skills in building maintainable tests.
• Strong experience with observability and tracing.
• Knowledge of best practices for performance optimisation and memory management.
• Experience mentoring others, especially in good software development practices, patterns, and fundamentals.
• Fluency in English and ability to effectively communicate abstract ideas, complex concepts, and trade-offs.

Nice to Have

• Having been a founding/early member of an Engineering team.
• Experience working within a fast-growing Scale-up environment – delivering value quickly and iteratively.
• Experience with GCP.

We Offer

• Generous compensation + stock options.
• Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.
• Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget.
• Flexible schedules and location.
• Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays.
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Health & retirement benefits.
• Annual learning & development budget.
• Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials.
• Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work.

Note: Some benefits may vary depending on location and role

Location

This is a fully remote position. You can be based anywhere in the UK, Europe, or the Americas within a UTC-7 to UTC+3 timezone.

About the Company

Mimica is on a mission to empower enterprises, teams, and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource - time and work more efficiently, with greater purpose and impact. Our AI-powered task mining observes employee actions across the desktop and categorizes them into detailed process maps. Mimica’s process intelligence highlights inefficiencies, prioritizes improvements based on ROI, recommends the optimal technology for automation (RPA, intelligent document processing, GenAI), and provides a blueprint for building new automations and transforming work.

Visit our Career Page to learn more.