Senior Backend Engineer

Unitedkingdom
UK
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Distributed Systems Concurrency Backend

Requirements

layers.Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.The Successful ApplicantExtensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.What’s on OfferOpportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.

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