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# Senior Backend Engineer: Recommendations

- **Company:** Constructor
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £80,000.0 - £120,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Communications Protocols, Data as a Services, Relational Databases, Distributed Systems, Github, Protocol Buffers, Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, NoSQL, Prometheus, Service-Oriented Architecture, Systems Integration, Web Services, Scripting, Google Cloud, Grafana, Caching, Backend, Cloudformation, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Information Technology, Api Design, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Pagerduty, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5834872305

## About the Role

* Strong computer science background & familiarity with networking principles

 * Experience in designing, developing & maintaining highload real-time services
 * Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for managing cloud resources.
 * Hands-on experience with setting up and improving CI/CD pipelines
 * Proficiency in a scripting language like Python and, as a plus, in compiled languages like Go or Rust.
 * Experience in server-side coding for web services, and a good understanding of API design principles
 * Skilled in setting up and managing observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and integrating alert systems like PagerDuty
 * Familiarity with Service-Oriented Architecture, knowledge of communication protocols like protobuf
 * Experience with NoSQL and relational databases, distributed systems, and caching solutions
 * Experience with any of the major public cloud formation: AWS, Azure, GCP
 * Experience collaborating in cross-functional teams
 * Excellent English communication skills

## Description

A primary focus of this job is to design, deliver & maintain highload real-time web services in close collaboration with other great engineers both from recommendations & other teams.

 * Build / deploy / support robust recommendations services including io-bound web services, cpu-bound services and data services
 * Write AWS CloudFormation scripts, Jenkins jobs, Github actions following best industry standards
 * Set up service observability, monitoring metrics, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, AWS CloudWatch)
 * Implement CI/CD pipelines and separate stability testing for recommendations needs
 * Collaborate with technical and non-technical business partners to develop / update recommendations functionalities
 * Communicate with stakeholders within and outside the team


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