Principal Backend Engineer (UK Remote) — Architect & Mentor

SchemeServe Ltd.; Chelmsford; À distance; GBP 110 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Twice-yearly company retreats

Flexible working

Dedicated professional development

Paid charity days

Monthly biscuit deliveries

Résumé du poste

SchemeServe is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to elevate backend engineering across SchemeServe. You’ll be one of the most technically experienced engineers in the organisation and the CTO’s primary technical partner for backend engineering, helping shape our architecture, engineering principles and technical direction.

This is a deeply technical role focused on building a secure, reliable platform while mentoring teams and guiding engineering decisions.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern backend engineering and strong C#/.NET experience.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems and API design.
• Experience with mature legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures.
• Cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure.
• Excellent understanding of databases, security, testing, maintainability.
• Experience shaping engineering principles and practices across teams.
• Mentoring, coaching and technical leadership.

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

C#/.NET

Software architecture

Distributed systems

API design

Mentoring / technical leadership

Communication

Outils

Azure

Cloudflare

Description du poste

SchemeServe is seeking a Principal Backend Engineer to elevate backend engineering across SchemeServe. You’ll be one of the most technically experienced engineers in the organisation and the CTO’s primary technical partner for backend engineering, helping shape our architecture, engineering principles and technical direction.

This is a deeply technical role focused on building a secure, reliable platform while mentoring teams and guiding engineering decisions.