Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Platforms

Factorial; Uddingston; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale critical backend services. You will enhance reliability, performance and maintainability while taking responsibility for platforms you will manage.

A hands-on role requires guiding architecture decisions and collaborating with Product, Engineering and Operations teams to raise technical standards. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure, delivering robust software and mentoring junior engineers as the

Qualifications

• Significant commercial experience as a Backend Engineer, owning production systems in a commercial environment.
• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design.
• Experience working with relational databases and performance optimisation.
• Experience working within cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience supporting production services and operational environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to deliver business-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Own critical production systems and ensure reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Take ownership of existing platforms and services, gaining a deep understanding of how they operate and identifying opportunities to improve reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical and operational issues.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident learning activities.
• Support architectural decisions that improve scalability and resilience.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operational stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering standards, code review practices, release discipline and software delivery best practice.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and support team development.
• Improve observability, monitoring and operational visibility.
• Identify and address technical debt and system risks.
• Support integrations with third-party services, logistics partners and business systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across engineering processes.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

Distributed systems

API design

Relational databases

Cloud platforms

Google Cloud Platform

Debugging

Stakeholder management

Business-critical software

Job description

DFYNE is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own and scale critical backend services. You will enhance reliability, performance and maintainability while taking responsibility for platforms you will manage.

A hands-on role requires guiding architecture decisions and collaborating with Product, Engineering and Operations teams to raise technical standards. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native infrastructure, delivering robust software and mentoring junior engineers as the