Senior Backend Engineer
Xact Placements
1 month ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 85KJob location
Remote
Tech stack
API
Airflow
Computer Security
ETL
DevOps
Python
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Data Processing
Backend
Kafka
Front End Software Development
Data Pipelines
Microservices
Job description
- Designing and building backend services and data pipelines powering a cutting-edge cybersecurity platform
- Architecting scalable microservices and APIs to process massive volumes of security data
- Working closely with product and frontend teams to integrate backend services into the platform experience
- Continuously improving systems performance, deployment, and monitoring as the company scales globally
Requirements
- 5+ years' experience designing and maintaining mission-critical backend applications
- Strong Python engineering skills, with a track record of building performant, maintainable, and testable systems
- Solid background in microservices architecture
- Proficiency with Postgres & MongoDB (relational + non-relational)
- Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous workflows (Kafka, Airflow, etc.)
- Solid coding practices (clean, testable, automated)
- The mindset of a builder: thrives in fast-paced startup environments, takes ownership, solves complex challenges
Bonus points if you've worked with: large-scale data processing, ETL pipelines, cloud deployments, or DevOps/CI-CD practices.
Benefits & conditions
Competitive salary + benefits Ownership and impact in a high-growth cybersecurity scale-up Work with cutting-edge technology and some of the brightest minds in the industry Fast-tracked career growth with internal progression opportunities Remote-first culture with the best tools and kit to succeed
This is more than a backend engineering role - it's a chance to be part of a team building technology that helps some of the world's largest enterprises stay ahead of attackers.
About the company
Are you ready to build the core systems that power one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity platforms on the planet?
This is your chance to join a research-driven, venture-backed security scale-up that's trusted by some of the world's biggest enterprises and critical infrastructure providers. Recognised by Gartner, armed with funding, and scaling aggressively worldwide, they're on a mission to reshape how organisations stay ahead of real-world cyber threats.