Backend Engineer - English (CPH)

About Simply.TV

You probably use our data every day without knowing it. When you open a streaming app, browse a channel guide, or get a move/show recommendation – the metadata powering that experience likely comes from Simply.TV.

We provide content data to the world’s largest TV distributors, streaming platforms, and telecom operators. Billions of data points. 30+ markets across EU, US, APAC, and Latin America. ~EUR 20M ARR. 400+ people. PE-backed by Summit Partners.

The opportunity

We’re turning Simply.TV into one of Europe’s first end-to-end AI-native content data companies. Not adding an AI feature to the product – rethinking how the entire business works from the ground up.

We already have agents in production. What we need now is the infrastructure and the people to take it much further. A few things worth knowing:

• Our data is content metadata – No PII, no sensitive records. That means we can train, experiment, and deploy without the regulatory overhead that slows most AI teams down
• This has full backing from our board and PE sponsor. It’s the company's strategic bet, with a real budget behind it
• We sit on billions of structured, unstructured and labeled data points

Some of what we build won’t work. That’s expected. The only way to fail here is to stop trying.

The role

6-person AI team led by our Head of AI. Flat structure. No middle management, no approval chains. You own what you build, and what you build goes to production.

This is a senior Python backend role. You are responsible for:

• API design and architecture
• Codebase structure and long-term maintainability
• Setting and enforcing high standards for code quality across the entire platform
  

You will shape how our backend services are built, how the code is organized, and how the team writes clean, scalable, production-grade Python that powers all our AI agents and data pipelines.

You'll thrive in this role if you have:     

• Strong experience designing clean, scalable APIs and evolving large codebases
• Obsessed with code quality, architecture, and long-term maintainability
• You’ve worked on real backend systems that handle meaningful throughput (APIs, services, data flows)

How you think

How you think

We don’t care about fancy titles. We care about how you operate:

• You start by building. When something is unclear, you write code and read the docs.
• You change your mind when the evidence changes.
• You challenge assumptions and propose solutions nobody else has tried.

We’re looking for the best of the best — experienced Python backend engineers who can own the technical backbone of our AI platform and raise the quality bar for the whole team.

Practicalities

• Reports to: Head of AI
• Employment Type: Employee
• Location: Copenhagen
• Type of Collaboration: Full-time