Senior Backend Architect: Scalable, AI-Driven Systems

Michael Page International; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Michael Page International in the United Kingdom is seeking a backend engineer to design and build scalable distributed systems for high-traffic financial services platforms.

You will own systems end to end, optimize performance, and evaluate emerging technologies including AI capabilities to address complex engineering challenges.

This is a full-time, permanent role with international scope offering competitive compensation and opportunities to work on cutting-edge platform engineering.

Qualifications

• Extensive backend engineering experience building scalable, distributed systems.
• Proven experience operating services handling 20,000–30,000+ requests per second.
• Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency and performance engineering.
• Ability to learn new technologies and AI capabilities rapidly.
• Experience solving scaling, latency, reliability challenges in mission-critical platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build large-scale distributed systems for millions of users.
• Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and scalable data platforms.
• Lead performance optimization across application, infrastructure, storage, networking and caching.
• Own systems end to end from architecture to production operations.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies including AI-driven capabilities.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

High-scale traffic

System design

Distributed architecture

Concurrency

Partitioning

Consistency models

Performance engineering

AI capabilities

Tools

AI

Job description

Michael Page International in the United Kingdom is seeking a backend engineer to design and build scalable distributed systems for high-traffic financial services platforms.

You will own systems end to end, optimize performance, and evaluate emerging technologies including AI capabilities to address complex engineering challenges.

This is a full-time, permanent role with international scope offering competitive compensation and opportunities to work on cutting-edge platform engineering.