Senior Backend Engineer

You’ll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the backend systems that underpin the platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, security and reliability.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Designing and building robust, scalable backend systems and services.
• Developing and maintaining APIs and backend architecture.
• Architecting infrastructure for job processing, analytics and event tracking.
• Building internal tools to support authentication, rate limiting and quota management.
• Working with data pipelines and background processing systems.
• Optimising system performance, security and scalability.
• Taking ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, including code quality, testing, infrastructure and monitoring.
• Collaborating closely with product, design and customer experience teams to deliver new features.
• Identifying opportunities to improve development processes, tooling and technical architecture.

Technical Experience

We’re interested in engineers with experience across a combination of the following technologies:

• Languages: Python, TypeScript
• Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, SQS, Parameter Store), Docker
• Databases & Data: PostgreSQL, Redis
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions
• Monitoring & Observability: LogFire, Sentry

• At least 4 years’ experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.
• Strong programming skills and the ability to write clean, maintainable and well-structured code.
• Experience designing databases, APIs and backend infrastructure.
• An understanding of high-throughput systems and background job queues.
• A strong sense of ownership, taking responsibility for code, infrastructure, testing and monitoring.
• The confidence to make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
• A genuine interest in developer experience and building tools and systems that make life easier for other engineers.

Desirable Experience

Experience in any of the following would be advantageous:

• Rate limiting, authentication systems and quota management.
• Analytics, attribution engineering and event tracking.
• Data platforms such as dbt and Snowflake.
• Building WYSIWYG editors.
• PDF generation, rendering processes and image manipulation.
• Server-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js or Remix., If you’re a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building scalable systems and having a real influence on the technology you work with, we’d be interested in hearing from you.