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About the Role

Aurora is seeking an ambitious Backend Engineer to join their world-class engineering team. You will design and implement the core infrastructure behind the product, including APIs, background processing, agent orchestration, and data pipelines. This is a hands-on role with high ownership, responsible for taking features from idea to production and ensuring system reliability as usage grows. The role offers the opportunity to grow into a broader technical or leadership position as the company scales, and to drive the evolution of a high-growth product from its earliest stages.

Responsibilities

Design and build backend services and APIs using Python and Django
Own features end to end, from initial design to production rollout
Maintain and evolve background processing, agent orchestration, and LLM integrations
Work with context-heavy data pipelines and RAG-style systems
Operate and improve cloud infrastructure on GCP
Improve performance across SQL queries, background jobs, and API endpoints
Debug production issues and lead incident resolution
Implement secure coding practices and support compliance efforts
Collaborate closely with product, curators, and frontend/mobile engineers
Review code and help raise the overall technical bar

Requirements

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 and experience with schema design and performance tuning
Experience with background job systems (ideally Celery)
Comfort designing reliable, observable systems
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
You care about how systems are used, not just how they’re built
You think in terms of reliability, latency, and failure modes
You’re 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
A want to be in-person, near the customer
Familiarity with compliance frameworks (SOC2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001)
Basic understanding of frontend or mobile stacks (Flutter, Vue)

Skills

Python
Django
DRF
SQL
Celery
GCP
Terraform
LLMs
AI infrastructure
Agent-based systems
RAG pipelines
Infrastructure as Code
Flutter
Vue

Location

London, UK

Work Type

In-person
Flexible remote days

Experience Level

5+ years building and operating production backend systems

Salary/Compensations

$100000 - $150000

Benefits

Meaningful equity
European visa sponsorship available
$2,000 Tech & Education budget
Complimentary Oura ring or Whoop
Complimentary longevity testing subscription
Lifestyle perks, events, and access opportunities
Full health benefits; 90% coverage, including full dental & vision
Complimentary dinners and evening transport

About the Company

Aurora is the Lifestyle Operating System empowering the world’s highest-performing individuals.
Consumer technology was supposed to give us leverage. To make it easier to find the right restaurant, the right trip, the right doctor.
Instead, every major platform today is optimised against the person using it: more scrolling, more ads, more engagement loops. You have infinite choice and zero clarity.
We exist to reverse that.
Aurora takes millions of data points about you and about the world and finds the one thing that is right for you, at the right time.
Our members — tier-1 founders, executives, and athletes — use Aurora to navigate travel, health, dining, experiences, and premium goods with the kind of judgment that used to require a team of people who'd known you for years.
Over half use it every single day, 95% every week, and in our first 6 months months, member spend is outperforming industry benchmarks by 5×.
Aurora is backed and chaired by Alex Macdonald, the most successful founder in this category, and has raised >$5M from experienced operators and tier-1 investors.
We are now expanding the founding engineering team as we scale the product and the member base.
Aurora is built in person from our offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles. The engineering team works primarily from our London office in Belgravia. This role requires spending at least one week per month in London with the team from day one, and being open to full relocation to London within 6 months of joining.