Principal Backend Engineer — Lead Architecture (Remote UK)

SchemeServe Limited; Chelmsford; À distance; GBP 120 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Twice-yearly company retreats

Flexible working

Dedicated professional development

Paid charity days

Fully remote UK-based role

Résumé du poste

SchemeServe Limited is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer for UK Remote work. You’ll shape backend strategy, partner with the CTO, and influence architecture and engineering principles across teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, review major designs, and drive security, testing and performance. The role emphasizes pragmatic decisions and durable software over feature bets, with strong focus on maintaining a scalable platform.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern backend engineering and strong commercial C#/.NET experience.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems and API design.
• Experience with mature legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures.
• Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure.
• Excellent understanding of databases, security, testing, maintainability and modern software delivery.
• Experience shaping engineering principles and practices across teams.
• A track record of making engineers around you better through mentoring, coaching and technical leadership.
• The ability to challenge experienced engineers constructively without becoming a gatekeeper.
• Strong opinions, loosely held – the confidence to challenge and the humility to change your mind.
• Excellent communication and the ability to influence without relying on authority.
• Excellent technical judgement, balancing quality, complexity, risk, cost and business value.

Responsabilités

• Shape our backend engineering strategy, architecture and technical direction.
• Help engineers make better technical and architectural decisions.
• Develop sensible engineering principles and guardrails without replacing good judgement with rules.
• Guide the continued evolution of our monolith and modern service-based platform.
• Coach and mentor engineers, developing their technical skills and judgement.
• Review significant designs and architectural decisions and challenge unnecessary complexity.
• Champion security, quality, testing, observability, resilience and performance.
• Identify technical risks and help teams navigate them.
• Evaluate technologies and patterns based on their value to SchemeServe rather than their popularity elsewhere.
• Balance long‑term engineering quality with short‑term business needs.
• Occasionally contribute directly to implementation when that's genuinely the best way to help.
• Be a generally awesome person.

Connaissances

Backend engineering

C#/.NET

Software architecture

Distributed systems

API design

Azure

Mentoring

Outils

Azure

Description du poste

SchemeServe Limited is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer for UK Remote work. You’ll shape backend strategy, partner with the CTO, and influence architecture and engineering principles across teams.

You’ll mentor engineers, review major designs, and drive security, testing and performance. The role emphasizes pragmatic decisions and durable software over feature bets, with strong focus on maintaining a scalable platform.