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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** WareBee ltd.
- **Location:** Cambridge, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Distributed Systems, Backend
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840622075-senior-backend-engineer

## About the Role

* Several years building production backends that other engineers extended after you
 * Comfort with relational thinking, schema design, and the failure modes of distributed systems
 * A test discipline that means deployments rarely surprise you
 * Bias toward boring, type-safe technology you can hand off
 * Care about the developer experience of the people who come after you
 * Hands-on warehouse, logistics, or supply-chain experience - you've seen how a real floor runs (a strong plus)

## Description

* Senior ownership of the systems behind a product warehouse managers depend on
 * A small senior team where engineering decisions are made by engineers
 * Hybrid in Cambridge, UK or Tel Aviv, Israel - or fully remote


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