Backend Engineer – FinTech AI Platform (Hybrid/Remote)

Carousel Consultancy Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid/Remote work

Job summary

Carousel Consultancy Ltd is partnering with a rapidly growing FinTech AI platform in London to hire a Backend Engineer. The role offers hybrid working or UK/European remote options and a salary up to £100k plus equity.

You will design and operate backend services using Node.js, Express and Python, integrate AWS services, and build RESTful and event-driven APIs in a fast-paced, growth-focused team. The ideal candidate has production experience, a passion for performance, and a willingness to

Qualifications

• Graduate with a CS/Engineering degree and 1+ years of relevant work experience.
• Production backend experience with Node.js/Express or Python.
• Experience designing RESTful and event-driven APIs.
• Hands-on AWS experience (ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS/DynamoDB, S3).
• Relational data modelling and basics of distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate backend services using Node.js/Express and Python.
• Design RESTful and event-driven APIs with AWS integration.
• Collaborate in a fast-paced FinTech team and deploy via CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Node.js

Express

Python

AWS

RESTful APIs

Event-driven design

CI/CD

Containerisation

Distributed systems

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering

Tools

AWS (ECS/EKS, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS/DynamoDB, S3)

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Carousel Consultancy Ltd is partnering with a rapidly growing FinTech AI platform in London to hire a Backend Engineer. The role offers hybrid working or UK/European remote options and a salary up to £100k plus equity.

You will design and operate backend services using Node.js, Express and Python, integrate AWS services, and build RESTful and event-driven APIs in a fast-paced, growth-focused team. The ideal candidate has production experience, a passion for performance, and a willingness to