Senior Backend Engineer: Scale Distributed Systems

Encord; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Learning & development budget

London office

Job summary

Encord is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Foundations team in London. You will own significant backend projects from design through deployment, build robust distributed systems, and contribute to high-performance APIs used by customers.

You’ll tackle complex data-scale challenges and help raise the bar through code reviews and collaboration. The Foundations team shapes the 6–24 month roadmap, focusing on multi-order-of-magnitude data handling, with the product mindset geared toward

Qualifications

• 5+ years building large-scale backend infrastructure applications.
• Deep fluency in at least one high-level language (we use Python and TypeScript).
• Solid grounding in distributed systems concepts (databases, replication, partitioning, queuing, caching) and how they behave 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 development

Distributed systems

Python

TypeScript

Code reviews

Tools

Kubernetes

GCP

PyTorch

CUDA

Ray

Job description

Encord is seeking a Senior Engineer to join the Foundations team in London. You will own significant backend projects from design through deployment, build robust distributed systems, and contribute to high-performance APIs used by customers.

You’ll tackle complex data-scale challenges and help raise the bar through code reviews and collaboration. The Foundations team shapes the 6–24 month roadmap, focusing on multi-order-of-magnitude data handling, with the product mindset geared toward