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# Remote Senior/Lead Backend Engineer

- **Company:** Fuse Limited
- **Location:** Chelmsford, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** AWS Cdk, Backend
- **Published:** June 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/remote-senior-lead-backend-engineer-chelmsford-essex/2837751776-2/

## About the Role

* Demonstrable excellence as a Software Engineer
 * Ideally 2+ years experience
 * Proven ability to define and build complex systems
 * Hands-on experience shipping highly-available production systems
 * Clear communication

Bonus

 * Experience with infrastructure as code (e.g. AWS CDK)
 * Experience in the Energy sector
 * Experience shipping consumer-facing products

## Description

In this role you will work closely within product to build the core digital infrastructure for a next-generation energy company. You will use your experience to engineer backend infrastructure that is second-to-none.

You'll be working across the back-end:

 * Constructing a real-time digital twin of our renewable generation and customer demand
 * Developing messaging interfaces with our third-party providers
 * Building high-volume pipelines for processing customer energy consumption
 * Build the backend of a world class energy app

For this role, you should be able to think on your feet and adapt to new business needs as well as take ownership of projects and drive change.


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