Senior Backend Engineer — Scalable Systems & Equity

Jackalope Digital LLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

London office

25 days leave

Learning budget

Travel for visits

Company lunches

Team socials

Job summary

Encord is hiring a Senior Engineer to join our Foundations team, the backend backbone that builds the reliable, scalable systems powering the data platform. You will own significant projects from design to deployment, monitoring, and impact assessment.

We value long-term architectural thinking, resilience under heavy load, and clear ownership across the stack. London-based team with in-person collaboration four days a week.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building backend infrastructure applications
• Deep fluency in at least one high-level language (Python/TypeScript)
• Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts and behavior under load
• Experience owning services in production and improving quality through code reviews, testing, rollout, and monitoring
• Experience with data migrations or re-architecture projects is a plus

Responsibilities

• Take end-to-end ownership of significant projects within our database and processing systems, from design and architectural decisions all the way to deployment, monitoring, and measuring impact
• Build robust distributed systems and reason carefully about how they fail and how they behave under load
• Contribute to performant protocols and APIs, such as our label-format API, that customers use directly
• Tackle complex domains and immense scale with simple solutions
• Raise the bar through code reviews, pairing, and helping engineers around you do their best work

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

Code reviews

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

PyTorch

CUDA

Ray

Job description

Encord is hiring a Senior Engineer to join our Foundations team, the backend backbone that builds the reliable, scalable systems powering the data platform. You will own significant projects from design to deployment, monitoring, and impact assessment.

We value long-term architectural thinking, resilience under heavy load, and clear ownership across the stack. London-based team with in-person collaboration four days a week.