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# Senior Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Michael Page
- **Location:** United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Concurrency, Backend, Low Latency, Data Management
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.apply4u.co.uk/jobs/senior-backend-engineer/55393740

## About the Role

Extensive 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.

## Description

Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.
Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching 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.