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Senior Backend Engineer: Distributed Systems & Microservices

Fresha

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

A leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness is seeking a Senior Back‑End Engineer to join their dynamic team in London. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining applications using Ruby and Elixir, with a focus on enhancing performance. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in product engineering and a strong understanding of distributed systems. Fresha offers a collaborative work environment with a mix of in-office and remote work options.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements
Collaboration in a dog-friendly office
Inclusive workplace culture

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience in internal product engineering teams.
  • Experience with developer productivity or infrastructure products at scale.
  • Ability to quickly learn new frameworks.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build and maintain Ruby/Elixir code.
  • Work on migration to a microservice architecture.
  • Ensure application performance and troubleshoot issues.

Skills

Understanding of languages such as Elixir
Strong knowledge of Ruby
Experience with GraphQL
Familiarity with TypeScript
Understanding of event-driven systems
Knowledge of distributed systems

Tools

Kafka
gRPC
Kubernetes
Job description
A leading marketplace platform for beauty & wellness is seeking a Senior Back‑End Engineer to join their dynamic team in London. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining applications using Ruby and Elixir, with a focus on enhancing performance. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in product engineering and a strong understanding of distributed systems. Fresha offers a collaborative work environment with a mix of in-office and remote work options.
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