Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) – UK New Role London

AlphaSights Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

AlphaSights Ltd. is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a London-based team that operates remotely for UK residents. The role focuses on designing scalable backend services, mentoring junior engineers, and delivering high-quality code across Python, Kotlin, and Ruby components.

You will collaborate with product managers and designers, deploy frequently with CI/CD pipelines, and contribute to the overall engineering strategy while maintaining a strong focus on code quality and reliability.

Qualifications

• Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.
• 5+ years of experience in a mature engineering team at a similar level.
• Strong coding skills in Python, Kotlin, and at least one relational database.

Responsibilities

• Design technical solutions that scale with the business and platform.
• Ship working code with a focus on backend services.
• Deploy and iterate using CI/CD practices and feedback loops.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team growth.
• Maintain and troubleshoot services to minimize user impact.

Skills

Python

Kotlin

Ruby

PostgreSQL

Education

STEM degree

Job description

London# Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) – UKApply now**The role:**We are looking for highly talented and driven software engineers who take pride in their work, to expand our Engineering team in London. Successful candidates will join a cross functional team including product managers and designers working closely with the rest of our business to deliver working code that solves real problems for both internal and external customers. You will take ownership of the services managed by your team, ensuring that their development aligns with the higher level AlphaSights Engineering strategy, while mentoring more junior Engineers. If you have a strong passion for solving problems with code, and want to work with exceptional colleagues in a high achievement environment, this role is a good fit for you.**What you’ll do:*** **Design solutions:** Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world’s leading research platform.* **Ship working code:** We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails. We’ve always got an eye open to assess new technologies that might improve our stack.* **Deploy and iterate:** We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration.* **Build your competency:** You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies.* **Maintenance and troubleshooting:** Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes.**Who you are:*** You probably have **a degree in a STEM subject**, but we’re happy to work with people who perfected their craft via a different route.* **Experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team for 5+ years**, and looking to take your career to the next level. We’re looking for people who have incredible potential.* **Technical expertise** with at least one programming language (we use Python, Kotlin and a bit of Ruby), and ideally experience with relational databases.* **Proven track record –** You’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles, standing out from your peers.* **Highly driven and proactive –** you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes.* **Meticulous** – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail.Learn more about our tech organization here!Don’t worry if your experience or background doesn’t match all of these areas, we believe a broad spectrum of experience provides great perspective on solving problems in new and innovative ways and we’d love to hear from you.Please note that unfortunately, we are unable to sponsor visas for this position. AlphaSights is an equal opportunity employer.**\\*THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION EXCLUSIVELY FOR CURRENT UK RESIDENTS.**