Remote Backend Engineering Lead — High-Impact APIs

Burns Sheehan Limited; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Expect to work with a high-velocity, event-driven stack on AWS with Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis. Rust is explored for performance, and AI tooling is gaining momentum across engineering.

Qualifications

• Lead a squad of 3+ software engineers.
• Proven backend experience with production-grade APIs.
• Experience with distributed/event-driven architectures is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own API design and backend architecture for core product.
• Drive problem statements from concept to release.
• Collaborate on systems design and cross-functional decisions.
• Maintain high throughput, scalable services in a fast-moving team.

Skills

Squad leadership

Python

API design

Distributed systems

Event-driven

System design

Tools

AWS

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Expect to work with a high-velocity, event-driven stack on AWS with Kafka, PostgreSQL and Redis. Rust is explored for performance, and AI tooling is gaining momentum across engineering.