Senior Backend Engineer — Product Platforms for Scale

OLR Holdings Ltd trading as DFYNE; Uddingston; On-site; EUR 76,000 - 111,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own key backend platforms, improve reliability, and help scale the technology that powers a fast-growing UK business. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operations while raising engineering standards across the team.

The role is hands-on, reports to Head of Development, and offers ownership from day one in a high-challenge, high-reward culture.

Qualifications

• Significant commercial backend experience with ownership of production systems.
• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience in production environments.
• Experience building and operating scalable production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Own production systems ensuring reliability and performance.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Production ownership

TypeScript/Python

Production systems

Distributed systems

Relational databases

Cloud platforms

Debugging

Stakeholder mgmt

Business-critical software

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Next.js

tRPC

FastAPI

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own key backend platforms, improve reliability, and help scale the technology that powers a fast-growing UK business. You will collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operations while raising engineering standards across the team.

The role is hands-on, reports to Head of Development, and offers ownership from day one in a high-challenge, high-reward culture.