Backend Engineer: Production Systems (Perl/Go) — Hybrid

Netcraft; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

33 days annual leave

Enhanced Sick Pay

Vitality Private health cover

Learning & Development days

Employee Referral Bonus scheme

Hybrid and flexible working options

Job summary

Netcraft is looking for a Back End Engineer to join their engineering team in the UK. This role focuses on maintaining and improving Perl-based systems that are crucial for the company's cybercrime detection services. Responsibilities include designing and developing features, ensuring system reliability, and addressing operational issues with a proactive approach. Candidates should have strong experience in backend system development, particularly in Perl, and a keen attention to detail. Netcraft offers a supportive work environment, flexible working options, and an attractive reward package including health coverage and generous leave policies.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and maintaining production backend systems, ideally including Perl.
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of services.
• Strong attention to detail with production systems.
• Proactive mindset when addressing operational issues.
• Experience with SQL databases, schema design, and complex query optimization.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features while ensuring performance, reliability, and security.
• Maintain and improve existing Perl-based systems.
• Test and document work to a high standard.
• Take responsibility for system maintenance and operational stability.
• Respond with urgency to operational issues and incidents.

Skills

Perl

SQL databases

Attention to detail

Unix command line tools

Git

Cloud services (Amazon EC2, S3)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Puppet

Job description

Netcraft is looking for a Back End Engineer to join their engineering team in the UK. This role focuses on maintaining and improving Perl-based systems that are crucial for the company's cybercrime detection services. Responsibilities include designing and developing features, ensuring system reliability, and addressing operational issues with a proactive approach. Candidates should have strong experience in backend system development, particularly in Perl, and a keen attention to detail. Netcraft offers a supportive work environment, flexible working options, and an attractive reward package including health coverage and generous leave policies.