The Software Engineer role at xAI’s X Money team involves building a revolutionary global payment network for 600 million users. The position focuses on backend development of scalable, secure microservices, while collaborating with cross‑functional teams on payments, fraud detection, and compliance. The role offers a fast‑paced, startup‑like environment that combines AI and finance.
Member of Technical Staff - X Money at xAI
On-site - London, UK
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GBP 107,000 - 262,000
Requirements
Skills
- Proficiency in distributed systems for high-scale, low-latency environments
- Experience with languages like Rust, Go, Python and Java
- Experience with high-volume streaming systems
- 2+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications
- 5+ years of experience working on large scale consumer applications or early-mid stage startup experience as a founding engineer
- Emphasis on rapid prototyping, user‑centric design, and AI solutions
Responsibilities
- Develop backend services, APIs, and data models to support high-volume, multi-user environments.
- Work with iOS, Android & Web client engineers to ship products.
- Design robust infrastructure and microservices for payments, transactions, growth, monetization, and engagement across platforms.
- Build and maintain fullstack 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.
- Uphold engineering excellence via testing, monitoring, deployment, and secure data handling.
Technologies
RustGoPythonJavaDistributed systemsHigh-volume streaming systemsMicroservicesBackend servicesAPIsiOSAndroidWeb client engineering
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