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# Senior Back End Engineer

- **Company:** Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade
- **Location:** Edinburgh, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £63,824.0 - £80,158.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, C Sharp (Programming Language), Unix, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Django Web Framework, Github, Python (Programming Language), Object-Oriented Software Development, Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Software Engineering, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Datadog, Delivery Pipeline, Backend, Docker, Golang, Programming Languages
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2856357582-senior-back-end-engineer

## About the Role

* Experience writing clean, maintainable code in at least one programming language.
 * Experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems, focusing on reliability, performance and user outcomes.
 * Experience building and supporting applications in containerised environments.
 * Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
 * Strong communication skills with the ability to build effective relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
 * Python and Django
 * AWS and Azure
 * Docker, ECS and ECR
 * GitHub Actions, CodePipeline and CodeBuild
 * Datadog and Logstash

## Description

Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade (BIST), in partnership with Inspire People, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer. Whilst the team primarily develops in Python, we welcome applications from experienced backend developers with Java, C#, Go or similar object-oriented programming backgrounds, with experience designing, operating and improving distributed systems. This permanent Grade 7 role can be based in London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham or Salford, with hybrid working of 2-3 days per week in the office, flexible working options and a salary of £63,824 to £80,158 (up to £83,778 for London), including allowances, dependent on location and technical skills assessed at interview., * Design, build and operate reliable, secure and scalable cloud platform services supporting critical digital products.

 * Develop and maintain platform tooling, automation, observability, monitoring and CI/CD capabilities.
 * Build software solutions using Python and modern engineering practices.
 * Write clean, maintainable code and infrastructure-as-code solutions to support service delivery.
 * Embed Site Reliability Engineering principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and continual service improvement.
 * Support live service operations, incident management, troubleshooting and platform resilience.
 * Collaborate with engineers, architects, product teams and stakeholders whilst coaching and mentoring colleagues.


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