Backend Engineer

Technical Futures Ltd; Cambridgeshire and Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shares

30 days holiday + time off between X'm

Private healthcare

Pension plan

Life assurance

Job summary

Technical Futures Ltd is seeking a Backend Engineer to join a deeptech start-up, combining software engineering with scientific computing. You will work with Python and Rust, design APIs, and contribute to reliable, scalable backend systems.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineers and scientists, containerized deployments, and modern tooling in a hybrid work environment with a generous salary and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong academic background in a STEM field.
• Experience with Python and Rust and modern tooling.
• Experience designing systems and APIs that coordinate work and handle failure.
• Focus on code quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Design and iterate platform APIs and backend services.
• Collaborate with engineers and scientists to shape the platform layer.
• Implement robust, scalable backend components with modern tooling.
• Evaluate cloud/HPC integration and deployment considerations.

Skills

Academic background

Python & Rust

APIs & systems design

Code quality

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Slurm

OIDC/OAuth2

Podman

Ansible

OpenTofu

uv tooling

FastAPI

Job description

Exciting deeptech start-up seeks a bright, forward thinking Backend Engineer to join their dedicated team. With strong software engineering skills in modern languages (to include Python and Rust) backed by a good academic history, you ll bring curiosity about scientific computing and care for code quality.

Applications are welcomed from Mid level up to Senior level Engineers with experience designing systems and the API between them; with experience of modern Python tooling and packaging, some knowledge of Cloud computing or HPC job management (such as Slurm), identity and authorization flows (such as OAuth2/OIDC).

This cutting-edge technology company, focused on optimizing complex engineering systems, seeks a top class Backend Engineer who will confidently work collaboratively with engineers and scientists to have a real say in how the platform layer is designed.

You should bring the following skills and experience:

• Strong academic background. Could be Software Engineering, Computer Science, Physics or Scientific Software related.
• Strong software engineering skills in modern languages (Python & Rust ideal).
• Experience designing systems and the APIs between them services that coordinate work, manage state and handle failure.
• Focus on code quality.

Some / most of the following should support the skills above:

• Experience of Cloud computing or HPC job management (such as Slurm).
• Identity and authorization flows such as OIDC/OAuth2.
• Deploying containerized services on Linux (such as Podman).
• Infrastructure as code (such as Ansible, OpenTofu).
• Modern Python tooling and packaging such as uv.
• Data storage and pipelines, including large simulation results and model serving.
• API, REST, WebSockets such as FastAPI.

Hybrid working available (3 days office/2 WFH), a very generous base salary dependent on your level of skills and experience and benefits to include Shares, 30 days holiday + time off between Xmas and New Year, Private healthcare, Pension Plan, Life Assurance and much more.