Senior Backend Engineer

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to develop backend systems for a growing fantasy sports startup with remote flexibility. The role offers a competitive salary of £80-90k and involves working with a tech stack including Typescript, NodeJS, and GCP. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience and must be able to coordinate with both backend and frontend teams. This is a unique opportunity to join a company with significant funding and expansion plans.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience building backend systems and dealing with infrastructure.
• Experience with Node.js or Python and Typescript stack.
• GCP experience preferred, AWS or Azure acceptable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain backend systems for a fantasy sports startup.
• Work closely with front-end engineers and product teams.
• Participate in infrastructure management.

Skills

Node.js

Typescript

Python

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Role :

Senior Backend Engineer

Salary range :

80-90k

UK remote (1 day per month visit in London)

Tech stack includes :

Typescript, NextJS, React Native, Expo, GCP, NodeJS, Python, Pulumi, Kubernetes, SQL / NoSQL.

Current team size :

x1 FE Engineer, x1 BE Engineer, Head of Product, Data Engineer.

We're working with a startup company in the fantasy sports domain - combination of data & AI powered tools to make fans better! Profitable, healthy investment (just raised 4.5 million), expanding into new sports and rebuild their core experience as a native app.

Essentials for this role

• 5+ years experience building backend systems and dealing with infrastructure (50 : 50 split day to day)
• Node / Typescript or Python stack
• GCP ideally however AWS / Azure can be considered
• Terraform or Pulumi

Bonus

• ReactJS / NextJS experience

No sponsorship available sorry!