Senior Backend Engineer - Scalable Systems & AWS

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

Job summary

Oho Group is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the design and delivery of scalable backend services and data pipelines. You will shape architecture and cloud infrastructure, and build reliable systems for asynchronous processing and event tracking.

You’ll take ownership across development, testing, deployment and monitoring in a small, high‑impact team. You should have 4+ years’ production backend experience, strong Python and TypeScript skills, hands‑on AWS, Docker and CI/CD, plus

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience building production-grade backend systems.
• Strong Python and TypeScript experience.
• Hands-on AWS, Docker and CI/CD experience.
• Experience with PostgreSQL, Redis and API design.
• A strong engineering mindset, with an emphasis on clean code, scalability and end-to-end ownership.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services, APIs and data pipelines.
• Shape backend architecture and cloud infrastructure.
• Build reliable systems for asynchronous processing and event tracking.
• Take ownership across development, testing, deployment and monitoring.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

End-to-end ownership

Tools

AWS

Docker

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Redis

Job description

Oho Group is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own the design and delivery of scalable backend services and data pipelines. You will shape architecture and cloud infrastructure, and build reliable systems for asynchronous processing and event tracking.

You’ll take ownership across development, testing, deployment and monitoring in a small, high‑impact team. You should have 4+ years’ production backend experience, strong Python and TypeScript skills, hands‑on AWS, Docker and CI/CD, plus