Senior Backend Engineer – Arctic OS, Hybrid + Equity

Arctic Research and Development; Cirencester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Private Health Insurance

Dental & Optician

Equity options

Travel to Arctic sites

Mission-driven culture

Small team ownership

Job summary

Arctic Research and Development in Calmsden, Cirencester, UK, is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build Auka, our Arctic OS that integrates data feeds, geospatial data, and ML capabilities. You will own data ingestion, APIs, and cloud infra while delivering reliable systems in environments with intermittent connectivity.

We value engineers who learn quickly, reason about geospatial data, and design robust backend services using Python and AWS.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production backend systems.
• Experience with GIS or geospatial data.
• Production experience with Python.
• Proven experience with cloud platforms (AWS).
• Intellectual curiosity and rapid learning ability.
• Pride in reliability and operational quality.
• Comfort with ambiguity and changing requirements.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data ingestion pipelines and processing systems
• Design and implement REST APIs and web microservices
• Rapid, iterative prototyping of new concepts
• Manage and develop cloud infrastructure
• Architect and optimise database systems
• Implement telemetry, logging, and monitoring solutions

Skills

Python

Geospatial data

Backend systems

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

Job description

Arctic Research and Development in Calmsden, Cirencester, UK, is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help build Auka, our Arctic OS that integrates data feeds, geospatial data, and ML capabilities. You will own data ingestion, APIs, and cloud infra while delivering reliable systems in environments with intermittent connectivity.

We value engineers who learn quickly, reason about geospatial data, and design robust backend services using Python and AWS.