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Generative AI chatbot leveraging real-time data

Senior Software Engineer - X Money

Backend EngineeringUpdated on Nov 6
Full-timeLondon, UKIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience working on large-scale consumer applications or early- to mid-stage startups as a founding engineer, emphasizing rapid prototyping, user-centric design, and artificial intelligence solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Develop backend services, application programming interfaces, and data models for high-volume, multi-user environments.
  • Work with iOS, Android, and web client engineers to ship products.
  • Design infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
  • Build and maintain full-stack features, including user dashboards, personalized experiences, content delivery, interactive tools, assessments, and real-time analytics.
  • Lead architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions for high-concurrency, low-latency systems.
  • Maintain engineering excellence through testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with high-volume streaming systems.
  • Experience with distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments.
  • Experience with Rust, Go, Python, or Java.

About the Company

xAI

Generative AI chatbot leveraging real-time data

xAI builds Grok, a generative AI chatbot with a Hitchhiker's Guide-inspired persona that uses real-time data from X to produce current, culturally aware responses. Grok is accessible to premium subscribers on X, via a standalone website, mobile apps, and through an API for developers. The company also develops large-scale AI infrastructure, such as the Colossus supercomputer, to train and run its models. Its goal is to pursue truth-seeking AGI research and grow a capital-intensive platform that could support a major public offering in the future.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Series E
Total funding
$42.1B
Headquarters
Palo Alto, CA
Founded
2023

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