Senior Backend Engineer — Payments Platform, AWS

Ryft; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Ryft in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the systems that move real money. You’ll work in C#/.NET on AWS, building event-driven services that power payments, splits, and settlements.

This hands-on role spans design to production, shaping architecture, reviewing code, and delivering reliable fintech features. You’ll collaborate with product and squads to ship secure, scalable payments capabilities in a growing platform.

Qualifications

• Significant experience building and running production backend services.
• Strong in C#/.NET and able to move quickly in a fintech environment.
• Hands-on AWS production experience with containers and serverless components.

Responsibilities

• Build backend features end-to-end from design to production.
• Design for correctness under retries, concurrency and edge cases.
• Own production ownership including instrumentation, alerting and incident response.

Skills

Backend

C#/.NET

AWS

Distributed Systems

Testing

AI-assisted coding

Team collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Ryft in London is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the systems that move real money. You’ll work in C#/.NET on AWS, building event-driven services that power payments, splits, and settlements.

This hands-on role spans design to production, shaping architecture, reviewing code, and delivering reliable fintech features. You’ll collaborate with product and squads to ship secure, scalable payments capabilities in a growing platform.