Senior Backend Engineer — Architect Scalable Microservices

Publicis Groupe; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work your world opportunity

Reflection Days

Help@Hand benefits

Family friendly policies

Flexible working and bank holiday swap

Local discounts

Job summary

A leading global marketing company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop scalable backend systems for their unified marketing platform. This hands-on role requires strong expertise in Python and modern development patterns, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability. You will collaborate cross-functionally and influence best engineering practices within a hybrid work environment. Candidates should be skilled in API design, architecture patterns, and cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable backend engineering experience, with architectural ownership over services or distributed systems.
• Strong understanding of microservices, concurrency, async programming, and event‑driven architectures.
• Hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Architect distributed backend services and APIs using modern frameworks.
• Write high-quality, maintainable, production-ready code.
• Implement tracing, structured logging, metrics, and alerts for performance.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

FastAPI

Node.js

SQL

NoSQL databases

Docker

Kubernetes

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Argo

Job description

A leading global marketing company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design and develop scalable backend systems for their unified marketing platform. This hands-on role requires strong expertise in Python and modern development patterns, with a focus on performance, reliability, and observability. You will collaborate cross-functionally and influence best engineering practices within a hybrid work environment. Candidates should be skilled in API design, architecture patterns, and cloud technologies.