Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Howrecruit; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing tech company in the UK seeks a Senior / Lead Backend Engineer to design and build scalable backend services in Node.js and TypeScript. With a strong emphasis on ownership and autonomy, you'll develop key APIs and platform components while solving performance and reliability challenges. This role emphasizes real product impact and offers the chance to work in a dynamic, smart engineering team. Ideal candidates should have over 5 years of experience and a strong grasp of backend systems.

Benefits

High ownership from day one

Real product impact

Well-funded company

Smart engineering team

Work on meaningful problems

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Strong with Node.js, TypeScript, and API design.
• A real interest in product engineering.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js + TypeScript.
• Own systems end-to-end from architecture to deployment and monitoring.
• Develop APIs and platform components used across multiple products.

Skills

Backend engineering experience

Node.js

TypeScript

API design

Architectural judgement

Tools

PostgreSQL

Event-driven systems

Microservices

Job description

Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Hybrid

£85000-£130000

If you’re a backend engineer who wants more ownership, more autonomy, and work that actually matters, this one’s worth a look.

I’m hiring for a fast-growing tech company rebuilding a core platform used by hundreds of thousands of customers.

Small team. Big impact. Real engineering challenges.

The role

You’ll work across the backend platform powering key customer-facing experiences.

You will :

• Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js + TypeScript
• Own systems end-to-end (architecture → deployment → monitoring)
• Develop APIs and platform components used across multiple products
• Solve performance, reliability and observability challenges
• Ship iteratively with product + design

Improve engineering quality and share knowledge

If you enjoy autonomy and seeing your work hit production quickly, you’ll love this environment.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong with Node.js, TypeScript, and API design
• A real interest in product engineering
• Experience building production systems at scale
• Good architectural judgement

Comfortable in fast-moving, high-ownership teams

Nice to have

• PostgreSQL
• Event-driven systems
• Auth
• Microservices
• Observability
• CI / CD

Why this is a great move

• High ownership from day one
• Real product impact
• Well-funded, fast-growing tech company
• Smart, low-ego engineering team
• Work on meaningful problems — not endless tickets

Interested?

Please click the ‘Apply’ button. Don’t worry if your CV isn’t up to date. Just send what you have and we’ll deal with that later.