Junior Backend Engineer (50012)

As a Junior Backend Engineer, you will be working with the team designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance backend systems that power InfoSum's data collaboration platform. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including frontend engineers, product managers, and infrastructure teams, to help deliver robust and efficient solutions. This role requires a keen interest in backend development, system architecture, and database management, with a focus on performance, security, and reliability. RequirementsCore Responsibilities

• Software debugging: Investigate production issues across Go micro-services and Python data pipelines. Use logs, tracing and AI powered tools to investigate and patch quickly.
• Feature development: Build and test code (mainly Go) for platform enhancements. Write unit and integration tests, participate in peer reviews and pair-programming sessions.
• Documentation & knowledge-sharing: share learnings via demos.

Additional company wide requirements

• Understand and comply with InfoSum's security and privacy policies, and be attentive to information security at all times in the performance of duties for InfoSum.

• 1-3 years' professional software engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of at least one of Go or Python and willingness to learn the other languages including typescript.
• Solid grasp of Git, REST and basic cloud/Linux fundamentals.
• Curiosity and the confidence to ask questions in a fast-moving team.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker or Terraform.
• Experience with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with Postgres.
• Interest in data-privacy, AdTech/MarTech or large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with Kafka, gRPC or Apache Spark.

A competitive salary based on your experience and ability to perform in role

25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays) + a day off for your birthday + 2 Volunteering days

Private medical insurance

Life assurance - 4x your base salary

Fantastic corporate discounts and mental wellbeing support, including a top of line EAP.

Salary sacrifice schemes with employer contribution

Enhanced Maternity, Adoption & Share Parental Leave

InfoSum is the world's leading data collaboration platform, providing solutions to the world's largest enterprises to allow collaboration across data sources and deliver richer customer experiences that prioritize consumer privacy. Our vision is to unlock data's limitless potential, by enabling the world's data to be connected but never shared. As a people-first organization, we can offer you the personal and professional flexibility needed to get the job done, grow with us, and help challenge the status quo. If you want to work with a business that encourages collaboration, and champions the idea that the sum is greater than its parts, then we want to hear from you. The Engineering department at InfoSum is dedicated to delivering high-quality, innovative software solutions that meet the needs of our customers and drive the success of our organization. We strive to leverage cutting-edge technologies, best practices and collaborative teamwork to develop scalable, reliable and user-friendly software products.