Back end Engineer

Lorien; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a skilled developer to build reliable, secure, and observable back-end services in the Greater London area. This hybrid role offers a contract for 6 months, focusing on ensuring secure coding, CI/CD with Docker, and performance tuning in data handling. Ideal candidates will also be familiar with observability practices like metrics, logs, and traces. Experience with NatWest platform standards, Python microservices with FastAPI or Django is a plus.

Qualifications

• Experience building reliable and secure back-end services.
• Familiarity with data modelling, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Ability to ensure observability with metrics, logs, and traces.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable, secure, observable back-end services.
• Manage data modelling, migrations, and performance tuning.
• Ensure observability through metrics, logs, and traces.

Skills

Security: OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, secure coding

CI/CD and containerisation: Docker

Deploy to AWS and/or PCF on-prem

Job description

Build reliable, secure, and observable back-end services powering customer/colleague experiences and AI features.

6 month contract

hybrid

Core skills

• Security: OAuth2/OIDC, secrets management, secure coding.
• CI/CD and containerisation: Docker; deploy to AWS and/or PCF on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Data modelling, migrations, performance tuning, resilient integrations.
• Observability (metrics/logs/traces), SLOs.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with the DWS parent and NatWest platform standards is a strong plus.
• Experience working within NatWest engineering standards and governance.
• Ability to deliver microservices in Python when needed (FastAPI/Django).

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.