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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Sphere Digital Recruitment
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £130,000.0 - £182,000.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), TypeScript, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Spring Cloud, ReactJS, Backend, Fastapi, Terraform
- **Published:** October 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-backend-engineer/57476283

## About the Role

* Strong commercial experience with Python development
 * Experience building and scaling cloud-native applications
 * Strong knowledge of GCP and infrastructure best practices
 * Experience with FastAPI or similar backend frameworks
 * Understanding of platform engineering, DevOps or cloud architecture
 * Experience working in start-up, scale-up or product-led environments
 * Comfortable operating in fast-moving teams with evolving requirements
 * Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
 * Tech Stack: Python, FastAPI, GCP, Terraform, React / TypeScript

## Description

As the Senior Backend / Platform Engineer, your responsibilities will include:

 * Developing and enhancing backend services and APIs
 * Improving platform performance, reliability and scalability
 * Designing solutions to support growing data volumes and user demand
 * Working with cloud infrastructure and deployment tooling
 * Supporting integrations with third-party systems and services
 * Implementing monitoring, logging and observability capabilities
 * Collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver new functionality
 * Advising on architecture and technical best practices
 * Helping establish processes to support future platform growth