Senior Backend Architect – Scalable Systems

Encord; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

London office 4+ days/week

Equity

Learning budget

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Foundations team, the backend backbone for scalable, data-intensive systems. You will take end-to-end ownership of significant projects, from design through deployment, monitoring and impact measurement.

You will build robust distributed systems, work on performance-focused protocols and APIs, and tackle large-scale data challenges while guiding and elevating your teammates. This role emphasizes autonomy, depth, and long-term impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale backend infrastructure applications.
• Deep fluency in at least one high-level language (Python and/or TypeScript).
• Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts (databases, replication, partitioning, queuing, caching) and how they behave under load.
• Experience owning services in production and improving quality through code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring.
• Experience with data migrations or re-architecture projects is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of significant projects within our database and processing systems, from design and architectural decisions to deployment, monitoring, and measuring impact.
• Build robust distributed systems and reason carefully about failures and load.
• Contribute to performant protocols and APIs that customers use directly.
• Tackle complex domains and immense scale with simple solutions.
• Raise the bar through code reviews, pairing, and helping engineers around you do their best work.

Skills

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

PyTorch

Job description

Encord is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Foundations team, the backend backbone for scalable, data-intensive systems. You will take end-to-end ownership of significant projects, from design through deployment, monitoring and impact measurement.

You will build robust distributed systems, work on performance-focused protocols and APIs, and tackle large-scale data challenges while guiding and elevating your teammates. This role emphasizes autonomy, depth, and long-term impact.