Staff Software Engineer (£120k-£180k + Equity) at Fanvue.com

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Job Title

Staff Software Engineer

Salary

£120k-£180k + Equity

Company

Fanvue.com – AI‑powered creator monetisation platform growing 450% YoY

Location

London, UK

Job Description

Join Fanvue as the most senior Individual Contributor to lead the evolution of a platform serving 17 million monthly users. Following a $22M Series A, you will architect the transition from a PostgreSQL monolith to an event‑driven microservices architecture while building core AI infrastructure such as vector stores and LLM orchestration tools.

Why this role is remarkable

  • Immediate impact at scale on a platform that recently surpassed $100M+ ARR and was named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025.
  • Rare opportunity to define a company's technical foundation by building AI‑native infrastructure and platform primitives from the ground up.
  • World‑class engineering culture that offers a dedicated IC career track, valuing deep technical excellence over management progression.

What you will do

  • Lead the monolith‑to‑services decomposition using patterns like Strangler Fig to support tens of millions of monthly active users.
  • Architect and scale AI infrastructure including vector databases, embedding pipelines, and LLM orchestration for automated creator tools.
  • Design and implement database optimisation strategies for high‑throughput workloads on PostgreSQL and transition toward event‑driven systems.

The ideal candidate

  • 10+ years of hands‑on experience building and shipping distributed systems at high‑growth consumer platforms such as Monzo, Revolut, or Deliveroo.
  • Expert‑level proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS, with a proven track record of scaling databases for millions of users.
  • Forward‑thinking engineer fluent with AI‑assisted development tools like Cursor and enthusiastic about mentoring teams through technical leadership.

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Job Title

Staff Software Engineer

Salary

£120k-£180k + Equity

Company

Fanvue.com – AI‑powered creator monetisation platform growing 450% YoY

Location

London, UK

Job Description

Join Fanvue as the most senior Individual Contributor to lead the evolution of a platform serving 17 million monthly users. Following a $22M Series A, you will architect the transition from a PostgreSQL monolith to an event‑driven microservices architecture while building core AI infrastructure such as vector stores and LLM orchestration tools.

Why this role is remarkable

  • Immediate impact at scale on a platform that recently surpassed $100M+ ARR and was named a Sunday Times Best Place to Work 2025.
  • Rare opportunity to define a company’s technical foundation by building AI‑native infrastructure and platform primitives from the ground up.
  • World‑class engineering culture that offers a dedicated IC career track, valuing deep technical excellence over management progression.

What you will do

  • Lead the monolith‑to‑services decomposition using patterns like Strangler Fig to support tens of millions of monthly active users.
  • Architect and scale AI infrastructure including vector databases, embedding pipelines, and LLM orchestration for automated creator tools.
  • Design and implement database optimisation strategies for high‑throughput workloads on PostgreSQL and transition toward event‑driven systems.

The ideal candidate

  • 10+ years of hands‑on experience building and shipping distributed systems at high‑growth consumer platforms such as Monzo, Revolut, or Deliveroo.
  • Expert‑level proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS, with a proven track record of scaling databases for millions of users.
  • Forward‑thinking engineer fluent with AI‑assisted development tools like Cursor and enthusiastic about mentoring teams through technical leadership.

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Posted: April 17th, 2026