Senior Backend Engineer — Scale SaaS APIs (Hybrid)

Birchwell Digital; Harrow; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Birchwell Associates is partnering with a growing technology business to hire a Senior Software Engineer. You will join a senior engineering team to build scalable SaaS products, dependable APIs and cloud services.

The role emphasizes quality, reliability and delivery; you will collaborate with product, design and DevOps to shape the technical direction and deliver new features end-to-end in a hybrid London setting.

Qualifications

• Senior software engineering experience with production-grade apps.
• Strong Python development and API design skills.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and scalable architectures.
• Proficient with CI/CD, testing, version control.
• Excellent cross-team communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain backend services and APIs.
• Deliver SaaS features from design to production.
• Improve performance, reliability, observability, and security.
• Collaborate with product, design, data, DevOps and engineering teams.
• Contribute to code reviews, testing, deployment and standards.
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

Cloud platforms

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Automated testing

Version control

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Birchwell Associates is partnering with a growing technology business to hire a Senior Software Engineer. You will join a senior engineering team to build scalable SaaS products, dependable APIs and cloud services.

The role emphasizes quality, reliability and delivery; you will collaborate with product, design and DevOps to shape the technical direction and deliver new features end-to-end in a hybrid London setting.