Senior Backend Engineer — AI-Driven, Cloud-Native, Hybrid

Formula.; England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Formula. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join its sports-tech platform in London. You will design and build scalable backend services on a modern cloud-native stack, with ownership from design to production.

You’ll integrate AI tooling thoughtfully to add genuine value, align with high-trust culture, and contribute to architecture decisions in a small, autonomous team. Hybrid work, London-based.

Qualifications

• Senior-level engineering rigour: clean, tested, well-documented code with performance and security in mind.
• Strong background in distributed systems and high-availability services.
• Experience with Kafka and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust, scalable backend services on a modern cloud-native stack.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and engineering standards across core platform services.
• Own your work end-to-end from design through production.
• Work in a small, high-trust engineering team with a low-ego culture.
• Apply AI tooling thoughtfully as part of your engineering workflow.

Skills

Java 21

Kafka

Event-driven architecture

Distributed systems

Security-minded coding

AI tooling awareness

Code quality

Cloud-native design

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Flink

Spark

Claude Code

Job description

Formula. is seeking a senior backend engineer to join its sports-tech platform in London. You will design and build scalable backend services on a modern cloud-native stack, with ownership from design to production.

You’ll integrate AI tooling thoughtfully to add genuine value, align with high-trust culture, and contribute to architecture decisions in a small, autonomous team. Hybrid work, London-based.