Backend Engineer

Following £12 million in funding, the business is now scaling its product and engineering capability. They are looking for a Backend / Infrastructure Engineer to join an engineering team of 15 and strengthen the backend systems, infrastructure, release processes, and operational foundations behind their product.

This is a high-ownership role in a small, fast-moving team. You’ll work across backend services, deployment infrastructure, observability, incident response, CI/CD, and release reliability, helping the team ship faster and more safely as the company enters its next stage of growth.

The culture is pragmatic and product-led. They care about craft, momentum, strong judgement, and simple systems that work well.

What you’ll be doing

• Owning and improving backend systems, services, APIs, and infrastructure
• Improving release safety, speed, versioning, testing, and rollback processes
• Building and scaling systems that support both end users and developer customers
• Investigating and resolving production incidents and infrastructure issues
• Improving CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility
• Working closely with product engineers across the stack
• Documenting what you build so the wider engineering team can move faster

• Strong hands-on experience building and operating production backend systems
• Fluency with TypeScript, Node.js, and systems design
• Experience with infrastructure, DevOps, CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Track record improving reliability, developer experience, release quality, or operational maturity
• Ability to write production-quality code independently
• Clear communication and strong judgement in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Comfortable helping other engineers level up around backend, infrastructure, and release processes

Nice to have

• Early-stage or founding engineer experience
• Experience with developer tools, SDKs, real-time collaboration, or local-first software
• Exposure to Cloudflare, real-time databases, or collaborative application backends
• Experience building infrastructure for products serving both end users and developer customers
• Open-source contributions or involvement in developer communities

• £90,000 - £130,000 salary
• Equity options
• Hybrid working, 3 to 4 days per week in a Central London office
• 25 days’ holiday plus UK public holidays
• Private health insurance
• Pension contribution
• Excellent equipment and choice of tools