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Lead Backend Engineer — Ownership, Scalable Node/TS, Hybrid

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England

Hybrid

GBP 85,000 - 130,000

Full time

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Job summary

A fast-growing tech company in the UK seeks a Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript. With a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy, you'll develop key APIs and platform components while solving performance and reliability challenges. This role emphasizes real product impact and offers the chance to work in a dynamic, smart engineering team. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and a strong grasp of backend systems.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
  • Strong with Node.js, TypeScript, and API design.
  • A real interest in product engineering.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js + TypeScript.
  • Own systems end-to-end from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
  • Develop APIs and platform components used across multiple products.

Skills

Backend engineering experience
Node.js
TypeScript
API design
Architectural judgement

Tools

PostgreSQL
Event-driven systems
Microservices
Job description
A fast-growing tech company in the UK seeks a Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript. With a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy, you'll develop key APIs and platform components while solving performance and reliability challenges. This role emphasizes real product impact and offers the chance to work in a dynamic, smart engineering team. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and a strong grasp of backend systems.
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