Senior Backend Engineer, UK

Role overview A senior backend engineering role within a remote, UK-based engineering organization. The source material does not specify the exact product area, so this is a general senior backend opening for engineers comfortable contributing across services and collaborating with product and design partners.

Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain backend services, APIs, and data models supporting product features. - Contribute to architectural discussions, technical roadmaps, and engineering-wide standards. - Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate requirements into shipped software. - Participate in code review, incident response, and continuous improvement of operational practices. - Mentor peers and help raise the technical bar across the team.

Requirements - Extensive professional experience in backend software engineering. - Proficiency in one or more modern backend programming languages. - Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases, APIs, and distributed systems. - Comfort working in a fully remote, distributed environment based in the UK.

Nice to have - Familiarity with adjacent areas such as infrastructure, observability, or DevOps practices. - Experience contributing to platform or shared-service systems used by other engineering teams.