Senior Backend Engineer – Remote UK, Equity

Wave Talent; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A consumer tech scaleup seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to develop backend systems and contribute to infrastructure improvements. This fully remote UK role involves working with GCP and Python in a fast-paced environment, emphasizing ownership from build to deployment. Ideal candidates have strong engineering experience, solid API design skills, and thrive in high-growth settings. Enjoy the chance to shape product direction and influence technical decisions across platforms in an autonomous culture.

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud engineering fundamentals, particularly GCP.
• Familiarity with modern observability and IaC concepts.
• Experience building robust, well-tested systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and scale backend services that support multi-product features.
• Strengthen cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Improve developer experience, performance, and reliability.

Skills

Strong backend engineering experience with production-scale systems

Solid systems design fundamentals

API development experience

Experience owning services end-to-end

Comfort working across both backend and infrastructure layers

Experience in high-growth environments

Problem-solving mindset

Strong communication skills

Tools

GCP

Python

Kubernetes

CI / CD

Job description

A consumer tech scaleup seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to develop backend systems and contribute to infrastructure improvements. This fully remote UK role involves working with GCP and Python in a fast-paced environment, emphasizing ownership from build to deployment. Ideal candidates have strong engineering experience, solid API design skills, and thrive in high-growth settings. Enjoy the chance to shape product direction and influence technical decisions across platforms in an autonomous culture.