Backend Engineer

• Design, build, and scale Node.js and TypeScript microservices that support critical ecommerce journeys.
• Develop and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs used across web and mobile platforms.
• Work on high impact areas such as checkout, payments, and core transactional flows.
• Integrate with external systems including CMS platforms, payment providers, and third party services.
• Operate in a fast paced, high volume environment where change is constant.
• Take ownership of streams of work, from technical design through to production support.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and overall platform resilience.

This is a senior backend role with real scale and complexity, focused on building and evolving the services that underpin a large, high traffic ecommerce platform. The team is looking for engineers who enjoy ownership, ambiguity, and solving problems in fast moving environments rather than operating within rigid processes., * Strong commercial experience building backend services with Node.js and TypeScript.

• Hands on experience with microservices architectures and API driven systems.
• Background working in high traffic, high change environments such as ecommerce, gaming, hospitality, or similar.
• Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure, and modern DevOps practices.
• Comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL data stores.
• A problem solving mindset with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations.
• Confidence taking ownership without relying on heavy process or close supervision.

What They Offer

• The opportunity to work at genuine scale on systems used by millions of customers.
• A senior role with clear ownership, influence, and long term progression within backend and platform engineering.

They are a large, digitally led retail and ecommerce organisation investing heavily in modern platform engineering. Their technology teams support dozens of consumer facing websites and applications, all powered by a shared microservices architecture. Engineering plays a central role in the business, with strong expectations around accountability, delivery, and technical quality.