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🥝 Software Engineer, Backend - AI Practice Team

American Bureau of Shipping | Warrington, United Kingdom | Posted June 20, 2026

Job Description

ABS is seeking an exceptional Backend Engineer to join us full-time on our Artificial Intelligence (AI) Practice Team. In this role, you will design and scale high-performance backend systems that power real-time analytics and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines. You’ll build distributed services that deliver sub-ms response times under high load, enabling next-generation AI and data-driven applications.

What You Will Do:

  • Architect distributed systems: Design and implement event-driven backends using advanced patterns such as CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga, and Circuit at scale: Develop and maintain web services in Go and Python, leveraging cloud-native infrastructure for resiliency and elasticity.
  • Optimize for performance: Ensure APIs and data pipelines meet strict SLAs through advanced performance profiling, caching, and query optimization.
  • Stream real-time data: Engineer high-throughput pipelines using Apache Kafka and other event strea...
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