Back End Engineer

Descrial Descrial
London, UK
4 days ago
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Role details

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

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 User Authentication Software as a Service Continuous Integration Data Validation Cursor Linux Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Open Web Application Security
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Software Systems SQL Databases Large Language Models Caching Git Fastapi Event Driven Architecture Information Technology Jenkins

Requirements

rates and token cost. You build validation, schema enforcement and safe failure behaviour for outputs that may be well-formed yet wrong. Authentication, authorisation, secrets, input validation, OWASP awareness and audit trails are part of everyday engineering. The delivery and cost You deploy and operate on AWS using EKS/ECS patterns, RDS and S3 through Jenkins quality gates. You improve queries, caching, asynchronous throughput and right-sizing. For model-calling services, you build queueing, rate limits and orchestration that account for cost. Your experience * You have real multi-tenant or enterprise-system experience with isolation, permissions and auditability. * You have 5+ years in backend engineering for production SaaS or platform systems. * You have strong Python, using FastAPI or comparable frameworks, solid SQL/PostgreSQL and the ability to work at * Java/Spring service boundaries. * You have production AWS experience and are comfortable with Git, CI/CD and Linux. * You use AI coding tools daily, such as Cursor or Claude Code, and have a considered view of where they help. * You have a degree in engineering, computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience. Useful to have, none required * Java/Spring depth alongside Python * Event-driven architecture, queues and workflow engines * Financial services or regulated-industry systems * LLM service integration patterns The reality This will be difficult. It demands pace and accuracy. We are building autonomous systems inside high-stakes live businesses, where decisions carry real consequences and impact and waiting for everyone to agree is not always an option. The systems will sometimes get things wrong. In this phase the London team needs to create the evaluations, visibilities and safeguards that catch mistakes early, reducing them over time and stopping the same failures happening again. If you want to build the foundations of an enterprise grade technology platform

Benefits & conditions

to service a multi-billion $ serviceable market opportunity, and share in that growth, this is your chance to join us. In our conversations Come ready to discuss three pieces of work: * A service or API contract you evolved without breaking its consumers. * A tenant or permission boundary you implemented and tested. * A production quality, reliability or cost problem you diagnosed and improved. Compensation * The all-inclusive package is typically £85,000-£105,000 a year, depending on experience. * Practical details * King’s Cross, London. In office (3 to 5 days a week), with colleagues in London and Bengaluru. * Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. * We aim to finish the process within three weeks. Tell us if you need an adjustment to the interviews. * Descrial is an equal opportunity employer. Apply You do not need to meet every qualification to apply. Strong candidates bring different combinations of experience, judgement and potential, and we know that some people are more likely than others to underestimate what they could contribute. If the work interests you and you believe you could make an impact, we encourage you to apply. The systems we are building will influence how important investment decisions are made. That makes a range of experiences and perspectives essential to building them responsibly. We want a team where different viewpoints are heard, respected and reflected in the work. *Your application will be passed to our screening partner Chooseto.AI

About the company

We’re hiring Back-End Engineers to build the services Descrial runs on. Investment professionals need APIs and workflows that respect permissions, keep an audit trail and fail safely when an AI result can’t be trusted. You’ll build multi-tenant data and workflow services, plus the integration layer between our Java/Spring core and our Python AI services. This role is part of a nine-person engineering cohort being hired across front-end and back-end. About Descrial Descrial is a startup inside a twenty-year-old company TresVista has run the analytical work behind private capital since 2006. 2,000 people, 400+ clients including some of the biggest names in the industry, no outside capital and no outside board. That was the first chapter. And we enjoyed getting here! The next chapter is harder and more interesting We are moving from services to software, from one firm’s workflows to an industry’s, and from executing investment decisions to shaping how they get made. Thirty of us in King’s

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