Senior Backend Software Engineer (£100k–£140k + Equity) at Fleek

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Job Title

Senior Backend Software Engineer

Salary

£100k–£140k + Equity

Company Description

Fleek is a ~$50M Series B startup backed by a16z and Y Combinator, building the AI-native infrastructure for the $350B global secondhand fashion market.

Job Description

You will join the Growth squad to own the core ecommerce journey, building backend systems for discovery, payments, and seller tools. Reporting to the CTO, you'll integrate the proprietary FleekSort AI classification engine into a marketplace handling millions of items. This role is about digitizing a broken, manual supply chain at global scale.

Location

London, UK

Why this role is remarkable

• Work on a genuinely novel technical challenge by integrating FleekSort, a custom AI model (not a GPT wrapper) that digitizes opaque secondhand inventory.
• Join a hyper-growth company tripling year-on-year with ~$50M in funding from top-tier investors like a16z, Y Combinator, and HV Capital.
• Deliver massive environmental impact by building systems that have already saved 9 million items from landfills and are scaling to serve thousands of global retailers.
  
  

What You Will Do

• Architect and own the end-to-end ecommerce journey, including item discovery, search, multi-currency payment systems, and credit infrastructure.
• Design and scale backend services to handle over 1 million unique items per month, connecting AI grading engines to real-time marketplace workflows.
• Collaborate in a senior product squad to translate complex international logistics and supply chain challenges into reliable, high-performance software.
  
  

The ideal candidate

• Has 6-10 years of professional backend experience, ideally using Node.js and TypeScript, with a proven track record of shipping high-traffic production systems.
• Possesses a product engineering mindset from a consumer-facing marketplace or fintech background, focusing on commercial outcomes rather than just infrastructure.
• Thrives in early-stage, fast-paced environments (Seed to Series B) and utilizes AI tools like Cursor or Copilot as a force multiplier in their workflow.
  
  

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