Join Fanvue.com as a Staff Engineer to lead the evolution of a high-growth platform serving tens of millions of users. You will architect the transition from a monolith to event-driven services, optimize PostgreSQL for high-throughput workloads, and build the AI infrastructure powering automated chat and content discovery. This hands-on role is pivotal for platform reliability.
Staff Software Engineer at Fanvue
They are looking for a Staff Software Engineer in London to lead the technical charge in decomposing their monolith into a high-performance, event-driven architecture. This isn't a management role; it's a deep-dive technical position where you'll build the AI infrastructure—from vector stores to LLM orchestration—that powers a global platform for millions of fans. If you have 10+ years of experience scaling systems to tens of millions of users and want significant equity in a Sunday Times "Best Place to Work," this is your next career-defining move.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£110k-£150k + Equity
Company
Fanvue
Role overview
Software135 employees
At Fanvue, one of Sunday Times’ “Best Place to Work 2025”, we empower creators to earn from their fans faster than ever before.
Our incredible team works daily to help creators and independent talent turn passion into profit, and stay in full control. That means:
• Enabling creators to launch, grow and monetise direct-to-fan subscriptions, content and experiences.
• Providing AI tooling built connection and monetisation, so creators spend less time on admin and logistics and more on what matters.
• Building a transparent, creator-first ecosystem where more revenue flows back to the creators themselves.
📩 Interested? Visit fanvue.com or browse open roles, or drop us a message to discuss partnerships, creator launches or platform innovation.
What you will do
- Drive the monolith-to-services decomposition using proven patterns like Strangler Fig to improve system modularity, reliability, and developer velocity across the engineering organization.
- Architect and scale event-driven systems and AI infrastructure, including embedding pipelines and real-time chat features using a modern stack of TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS.
- Mentor engineering teams through code reviews and design sessions while establishing high standards for AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and define team-wide engineering best practices.
Who this is a fit for
- Possesses 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with a proven track record of shipping and scaling distributed systems for tens of millions of monthly active users.
- Deeply proficient in TypeScript, Node.js, Go, and AWS, with specific expertise in optimizing PostgreSQL for high-throughput production environments through query optimization, partitioning, and replication.
- Highly experienced in service-oriented architecture transitions and familiar with modern AI/ML infrastructure components, including vector databases, embedding pipelines, and LLM API orchestration.
Why this role is remarkable
- Lead the technical transformation of a platform with $100M+ ARR and triple-digit annual growth, ensuring systems scale effectively for tens of millions of monthly active users.
- Work at the cutting edge of AI-native engineering, building core infrastructure like vector stores and LLM orchestration that is central to the product’s evolution rather than an afterthought.
- Join a multi-year “Sunday Times Best Place to Work” where technical excellence is prioritized over management hierarchies and significant equity offers substantial upside in a high-momentum environment.
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