Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

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

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and enhance product functionalities.

• Address significant backend challenges and shape both technical and product strategies.

• Create and deploy moderately to highly complex backend features with minimal oversight.

• Make informed decisions between modular-monolith code, shared components, and independently operated services.

• Establish backend standards concerning style, maintainability, testing, APIs, and operational readiness.

• Champion product quality, security, availability, and performance.

• Mentor junior and intermediate engineers.

• Eliminate technical obstacles and enhance team delivery methodologies through code and design evaluations.

• Identify and mitigate performance and reliability concerns at scale.

• Engage in incident response and serve as a technical leader when necessary.

• Utilize AI in production engineering efforts, assess its effectiveness, and guide others in its responsible application.

• Collaborate across product, frontend, infrastructure, data, and security domains.

• Work alongside PMs and designers to refine requirements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong expertise in backend architecture, APIs, data systems, and performance optimization within a complex product or service landscape.

• Proficient in contemporary backend programming languages.

• Extensive knowledge of systems programming.

• Experience in designing or enhancing modular backend boundaries, bounded contexts, and migration-safe architectures.

• Capability to lead through influence, technical insight, and effective written communication.

• Demonstrated experience in building or managing agentic systems in production, including architecting loops, tool utilization, and error-handling strategies.

• Ability to integrate AI into everyday workflows.

• Competence in thriving within a remote-first, asynchronous organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits to support your health, finances, and overall well-being.

• Flexible Paid Time Off.

• Team Member Resource Groups.

• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

• Growth and Development Fund.

• Parental Leave.

• Remote-first, asynchronous work environment.