Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

A Senior Software Engineer responsible for the execution of the backend features, with a deep technical understanding and how it translates to representing user needs. You will have operated in a hyper growth startup with experience building SaaS products.

What You Will Do

Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability. Implement and optimize data storage solutions. Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills. 5+ years of backend development experience. Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.

Requirements

• Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills
• 5+ years of backend development experience
• Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management
• Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale
• Writing testable, effective and communicative code
• Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
• Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance
• Data & application security knowledge and skills
• Experience in integrating with third-party systems
• Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies
• Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems

Benefits

• Comprehensive private medical and dental cover through Bupa
• 24/7 mental health, coaching and wellbeing support through Sonder
• £100/month Healthy Heidi’s stipend
• Global parental leave
• Fertility support
• Learning & development
• Home office budget
• Recharge days after major milestones and busy periods
• Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
• Clinical leave
• Flexibility that works

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