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# Senior Software Engineer (Back-End)

- **Company:** Arctic Research and Development
- **Location:** Cirencester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Geographic Information Systems, Airflow, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Databases, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Ruby on Rails, Data Logging, Pulumi, Data Ingestion, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Backend, Kubernetes, Influxdb, Production Code, Restful APIs, Terraform, Data Pipelines, Microservices
- **Published:** July 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=94ebd8d7844da29f

## About the Role

* 5+ years building production backend systems
 * Proven experience with cloud platforms (we use AWS)
 * Intellectual curiosity and rapid learning ability
 * Pride in reliability and operational quality, not just shipping features
 * Comfort with ambiguity - we're a young company and things change frequently

BONUS SKILLS

 * Security engineering experience
 * GIS or geospatial data handling
 * Machine learning or data science background
 * Time-series data and databases (e.g. InfluxDB, TimescaleDB)
 * Data workflow orchestration (e.g. Airflow, Dagster)
 * Ruby on Rails or Python
 * Kubernetes and Helm Charts
 * Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform)

## Description

As a Back-End Software Engineer you'll work across the stack as we build Auka, our Arctic OS that integrates hardware feeds, varied data sources, and machine learning algorithms. You'll iterate quickly, shipping production code that powers systems operating where connectivity is sparse and failure isn't an option. This is a role for a solid generalist - someone who sees themselves as an enthusiastic dabbler, a jack of all trades, or a tinkerer at heart - content to learn new skills and move across projects as requirements evolve., * Design and implement REST APIs and web microservices

 * Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines and processing systems
 * Manage and develop cloud infrastructure
 * Architect and optimise database systems
 * Implement telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions


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