Staff Software Engineer

🕒 February 23

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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fanvue

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

👥 B2C

🛍️ eCommerce

🌍 Social Impact

B2C • eCommerce • Social Impact

fanvue is a subscription social platform that empowers creators to share, earn, and connect with their fans. It combines AI features, such as messaging and analytics, to enhance the user experience while offering a paywall for exclusive content. The platform caters to a diverse range of creators, including influencers, artists, and athletes, allowing them to monetize their work and build communities with their followers.

📋 Description

• Lead technical initiatives that directly impact platform scalability and reliability • Scale our systems from PostgreSQL to event-driven architecture, designing for tens of millions of MAU • Drive monolith-to-services decomposition using proven patterns you have executed before • Design and implement database optimisation strategies for high-throughput workloads • Build and scale AI infrastructure, including vector stores, embedding pipelines, and LLM orchestration • Architect systems for AI-powered features, including automated chat, content moderation, and recommendations • Use AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code) to accelerate delivery and help define team standards • Build platform primitives that enable other teams to ship faster • Mentor engineers across the organisation through code reviews, design sessions, and pairing • Contribute to architecture decisions and technical strategy • Participate in incident response and drive reliability improvements

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience building and shipping at scale • Proven track record with distributed systems serving tens of millions of MAU • Deep expertise in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS • Strong experience with PostgreSQL at scale, including query optimisation, partitioning, and replication • Experience with service-oriented architectures and decomposition patterns (Strangler Fig, domain-driven design) • Familiarity with AI and ML infrastructure, including vector databases, embeddings, and LLM APIs • Fluent with AI-assisted development tools and keen to help teams adopt them effectively • A natural mentor who elevates other engineers through example, not authority • Strong communicator who can translate complex technical concepts for any audience

🏖️ Benefits

• Impact at scale: Fanvue supports hundreds of thousands of creators and millions of fans globally • AI-native engineering: we are not bolting AI on. It is core to our product and how we build • Proven IC track: this is a company that values deep technical excellence, not just management progression • Series A momentum: triple-digit growth means the problems you solve today define the platform for years • World-class engineering team: work alongside engineers who have shipped at scale across leading tech companies