Backend Engineer

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Manufacturing & Electronics 2025 is seeking a Backend Engineer to design, build, and scale a manufacturing OS with a FastAPI-based backend. You will tackle highly scalable architectures to handle thousands of real-time data streams across hundreds of processes, while staying flexible across different customer environments.

The role focuses on building APIs for edge devices, optimizing database queries, and integrating features into the frontend dashboard, collaborating with an

Responsibilities

• creating API endpoints for our edge devices
• improving the efficiency of database queries
• integrating new features in our frontend dashboard
• plus more

Skills

FastAPI

Tools

FastAPI

Job description

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to help design, build, and scale our manufacturing OS. You’ll work directly on our FastAPI-based backend with the challenging task of designing highly-scalable system architectures to handles 1000s of real-time data streams across 100s of manufacturing processes. What makes this especially challenging is generalising across different use cases and customer environments. We need to be super flexible without compromising on performance and code sanity – from beer bottle factories to aerospace components.

• creating API endpoints for our edge devices


• improving the efficiency of database queries


• integrating new features in our frontend dashboard


• plus more

This isn’t your typical dev gig – expect to work hard and collaborate with an exceptional team of top engineers, scientists, and builders, all obsessed with embodied AI reshaping the manufacturing world.