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# Senior Or Staff Backend Developer

- **Company:** Scroll Home
- **Location:** Greater London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £110,000.0 - £140,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Backend
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840621924-senior-or-staff-backend-developer

## About the Role

* 10+ years of backend engineering experience, shipping consumer products at scale
 * A track record of designing and scaling data-intensive applications - feeds, real-time workflows, high-throughput pipelines
 * An enthusiastic adopter of AI tools in your day-to-day workflow - you build faster because of them
 * Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a small, fast-moving team

## Description

We are in the final stages of closing a multi 7 figure seed round, we have a working product with great traction and high levels of Industry signup - now we need an experienced backend engineer to take it to the next level: evolving the core APIs, video delivery, real-time chat and feeds, and shaping the architecture and stack as we scale.


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