Backend Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

Are you an experienced Backend Software Engineer who enjoys building distributed systems, real-time infrastructure and solving complex scalability challenges?

You could be progressing your career at a high growth technology company whose messaging platform powers millions of real-time interactions for developers and businesses worldwide.

Your role:

As a Backend Software Engineer, you’ll join the team responsible for the core messaging platform that underpins the company’s real-time infrastructure. Working on highly scalable distributed systems, you’ll design and build new platform capabilities, improve performance and reliability and solve complex engineering problems at scale.

You’ll contribute across low latency messaging, Pub/Sub services, state synchronisation and next generation AI communication infrastructure, delivering production grade software used by developers around the globe.

Working in an AI first engineering environment, you’ll leverage modern AI tools to accelerate development while retaining full ownership of architecture, code quality and technical decision-making.

• You have strong backend development experience with Go, Node.js or another modern server-side language
• You have experience building or operating distributed systems, messaging platforms, event-driven architectures or streaming technologies
• You understand scalability, concurrency, performance optimisation and fault tolerant system design
• You enjoy solving complex technical challenges and delivering high quality, production ready software
• You’re comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced engineering environment
• You embrace modern AI development tools while maintaining a strong focus on engineering quality
• Experience with Pub/Sub platforms, Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, streaming systems, developer platforms or cloud infrastructure would be highly advantageous

As a Backend Software Engineer will earn a competitive salary package including:

• Salary to £120k
• EMI share option scheme
• 28 days annual leave
• Enhanced maternity and parental leave packages
• Your choice of kit and home-station set up
• Personal learning and development budget (£1000 p/a + 5% time to work on your own projects)
• BUPA Health Insurance + dental costs + mental health and wellness
• Pension, Life Assurance, Income Protection
• Fully paid one month sabbatical at five years’ service
• Gym subsidies, Cycle to work scheme and more