Senior Backend Engineer - DTC E-commerce (London)

The Growth Foundation; Greater London; Remote; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Growth Foundation in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape the architecture behind a scalable platform for DTC and e-commerce brands. You will design robust backend systems, build APIs, and own code, infrastructure, tests and monitoring end to end.

You will bring 4+ years of production backend experience, strong Python and TypeScript, and hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL and Redis.

Qualifications

• 4+ years building production-grade backend systems.
• Proficient in Python and TypeScript.
• Experience with AWS ECS/SQS, Docker and GitHub Actions.
• Strong PostgreSQL and Redis knowledge.
• Experience with high-throughput systems or background jobs.
• Commitment to clean, maintainable code and great developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building robust, scalable backend systems.
• Architecting infrastructure for job processing, analytics and event tracking.
• Building internal tooling for rate limiting, quotas and authentication.
• Developing and maintaining APIs and backend services.
• Collaborating with product, design and customer experience to ship features.
• Owning your work end to end: code, infrastructure, tests and monitoring.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

High-throughput systems design

Distributed systems

Clean code & developer experience

Tools

AWS (ECS, SQS)

Docker

GitHub Actions

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

The Growth Foundation in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to shape the architecture behind a scalable platform for DTC and e-commerce brands. You will design robust backend systems, build APIs, and own code, infrastructure, tests and monitoring end to end.

You will bring 4+ years of production backend experience, strong Python and TypeScript, and hands-on experience with AWS, Docker, PostgreSQL and Redis.