Senior Or Staff Backend Developer

Scroll Home; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Job summary

Scroll Home, a London-based video-first property discovery app, is seeking a Senior/Staff Backend Developer to join a hybrid team in London. You will own core backend APIs, scale data pipelines, and lead architecture for feeds, real-time workflows, and video delivery as the product grows.

The role demands 10+ years of backend experience with consumer-scale systems, plus a track record of end-to-end ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years backend engineering experience shipping consumer products at scale.
• Experience designing and scaling data-intensive apps (feeds, real-time workflows, high-throughput pipelines).
• Familiar with AI tools in daily workflow to accelerate delivery.
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a small, fast-moving team.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve core backend APIs and services.
• Architect and optimize data pipelines, feeds, and real-time features.
• Deliver scalable video delivery and in-app chat capabilities.
• Work in a small team to shape architecture as the product scales.

Skills

Backend engineering

Data-intensive systems

AI tooling

End-to-end ownership

Job description

Senior/Staff Backend Developer — Scroll Home (Hybrid, London)

Scroll Home is a video-first property discovery app launching in London over the next two months. Full-screen walkthroughs, a personalised feed, one-tap enquiries, in-app group chats, comments, profiles and likes. Property search hasn't changed in 20 years. We're changing it.

We are in the final stages of closing a multi 7 figure seed round, we have a working product with great traction and high levels of Industry signup — now we need an experienced backend engineer to take it to the next level: evolving the core APIs, video delivery, real-time chat and feeds, and shaping the architecture and stack as we scale.

You:

• 10+ years of backend engineering experience, shipping consumer products at scale
• A track record of designing and scaling data-intensive applications — feeds, real-time workflows, high-throughput pipelines
• An enthusiastic adopter of AI tools in your day‑to‑day workflow — you build faster because of them
• Comfortable owning systems end-to-end in a small, fast-moving team

Offer: £110–140k + equity · Hybrid, London office

Early team, a real product, launching now.