Senior Backend Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and sustain scalable backend services and APIs that enhance Chattermill’s primary analytics platform.

• Architect dependable, maintainable distributed systems and participate in the advancement of backend service design and infrastructure.

• Take ownership of the complete delivery process for backend engineering workstreams, from technical scoping and architecture to implementation, testing, observability, and production support.

• Integrate language models, agentic frameworks, and AI pipelines within core products and backend services.

• Enhance performance, reliability, and observability across high-throughput distributed data systems, involving logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response.

• Engage with cloud infrastructure and distributed systems in GCP (preferred) or AWS environments.

• Collaborate closely with the Product team to define scope, shape technical solutions, and investigate new platform capabilities and features.

• Contribute to engineering excellence by participating in code reviews, architectural discussions, and the continuous improvement of development standards across the team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Substantial professional experience working as a senior backend engineer within high-ownership product engineering teams.

• Strong expertise in at least one modern backend programming language such as Python, Ruby, or Go, with an emphasis on scalable system design and architectural thinking.

• Comprehensive understanding of distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures.

• Experience in optimizing database performance at scale, including query tuning, indexing, and partitioning across large production datasets.

• Proficiency with cloud platforms, ideally within GCP environments, although AWS experience is also advantageous.

• Practical experience with observability tools and production operations, including logging, tracing, alerting, and incident response.

• Demonstrated ability to independently deliver backend features and technical projects in fast-paced product environments.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working in a choice-first environment - we trust the way you want to work!

• Work-from-home allowance to establish your ideal workspace.

• 25 days holiday + local bank holidays, plus an additional day for each year of service.

• Your birthday off.

• Annual learning & development budget to support your growth (increasing over time).

• Equity options — share in the company’s success.

• Monthly health & wellbeing budget, increasing with length of service.

• Optional private healthcare plan.

• Life assurance & income protection (location dependent).

• Employee Assistance Programme (location dependent) for additional support when needed.

• Enhanced family leave (location dependent), along with fertility and neonatal leave.

• Dog-friendly office with great classes, events, and a rooftop terrace (if in London).