About Mimica
Mimica is an AI-powered process intelligence platform enabling enterprises and individuals to reclaim their most precious resource: time. At the click of a button, Mimica identifies every process improvement and agentic AI opportunity across an enterprise. We’ve raised $26 million in Series B financing and are scaling fast. Behind our platform is a team of exceptionally talented people, remote-first and globally distributed across 16+ countries.
Role Overview
In this role, you will own and support the development of backend systems that interface with ML models. You will build apps and core components of our ML systems, deliver new AI features and drive improvements to our infrastructure and services. We are looking for a Lead/Staff-level engineer to join the Python Chapter, who will have the opportunity to shape our technical direction, architecture, processes, and culture.
Responsibilities
- Write Python applications that are resilient, robust, and integrate well with other apps in a service architecture.
- Furthering Developer Experience (DevEx) by mentoring others in writing code that is intuitive, clear, and easy to test.
- Developing observability for new and existing ML applications and GenAI/LLM integrations, making use of the Grafana Stack (Prometheus, Loki, Tempo).
- Develop integrations and services that communicate with Google Services.
- Working closely with Data Scientists and ML Engineers throughout the lifecycle of productionising their models.
- Being responsive to incidents regarding ML applications - including an understanding of how to triage and resolve issues relating to CPU, memory, and GPU utilisation.
- Documenting procedures and guides to facilitate knowledge sharing and help other engineers level up through pairing and mentoring.
- Participating in hiring and onboarding new team members; taking on end-to-end project management responsibilities.
What we offer
- Generous compensation + stock options - aligned with our internal framework, market data, and individual skills.
- Distributed work: Work from anywhere - fully remote, in our hubs, or a mix.
- Company-issued laptop, remote setup stipend, and co-working budget.
- Flexible schedules and location.
- Ample paid time off, in addition to local public holidays.
- Enhanced parental leave.
- Health & retirement benefits.
- Annual learning & development budget.
- Annual workaways and regular virtual & in-person socials.
- Opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking projects that shape the future of work.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience and above as a Software Engineer, and previous Lead/Staff/Principal level of responsibilities.
- Strong proficiency with Python and Backend-Engineering.
- Strong experience with async/concurrent programming.
- Experience owning projects from start to finish, including speccing, architecture, development, testing, deployment, release and monitoring.
- Strong skills in building maintainable tests.
- Strong experience with observability and tracing.
- Knowledge of best practices for performance optimisation, memory management.
- Experience mentoring others, especially in good software development practices, patterns, and fundamentals.
- Drive to continually develop your skills, improve team processes and reduce technical debt.
- Fluency in English and ability to effectively communicate abstract ideas, complex concepts and trade-offs.
Nice to have
- Having been a founding/early member of an Engineering team.
- Experience working within a fast-growing Scale-up environment – delivering value quickly and iteratively.
- Experience with GCP.
