Senior Backend Engineer

Role Overview

• The Senior Backend Engineer plays a key role in designing and building greenfield customer-facing applications and APIs that sit at the heart of our product offering.
• Design, build and maintain scalable backend services and RESTful/GraphQL APIs using Python (Django or FastAPI).
• Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Design and implement data models, working with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and cloud-native data services.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automated testing, linting and deployment as standard.
• Work within a cloud-native environment on Microsoft Azure, contributing to infrastructure decisions and service architecture.
• Contribute to observability, monitoring and alerting for production services.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis when issues arise.
• Take ownership of features end-to-end, from technical design through to delivery and iteration.
• Participate actively in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint ceremonies.

Requirements

• Significant professional experience (typically 5+ years) in software engineering, with a strong track record of delivering production systems.
• Backend proficiency in Python (Django or FastAPI), with the ability to design and build APIs and services from scratch.
• Solid understanding of relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design, query optimisation and migrations.
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure, and familiarity with containerisation (Docker) and CI/CD practices.
• A pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering – you care about what you are building, not just how.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative, cross-functional team.
• Experience working with AI-assisted development tools and an interest in integrating AI capabilities into products.

Tech Stack

• Azure
• Cloud
• Django
• Docker
• GraphQL
• Postgres
• Python

Benefits

• Paid Leave
• 35 days (inclusive of public holidays)
• Birthday Off
• Volunteering Leave Allowance
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Life Insurance
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Pension
• Monthly Wellbeing Allowance
• Breakfast, Snacks, Friday lunch & Barista Coffee Machine in the office
• Learning Portal with over 100,000 assets available to support professional development
• Hybrid working set-up (Minimum 3+ days, Farringdon
• London)