Senior Software Engineer

Workonomics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established and profitable company is seeking Senior and Lead Engineers to join their backend infrastructure team in London. This innovative firm is focused on building a high-performance data engine to enhance their enterprise product offering. With a commitment to resilience and observability, the role emphasizes ensuring data integrity and low-latency processing. Candidates should have a strong background in building commercial web applications at scale and demonstrate a passion for making a quantifiable impact. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and are eager to contribute to significant technical initiatives, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in backend infrastructure and data processing at scale.
• Strong understanding of high-performance systems and data integrity.

Responsibilities

• Join a backend infrastructure group to build a high-performance data engine.
• Ensure low-latency processing and high availability across the platform.

Skills

Backend Infrastructure

Data Processing

Distributed Systems

Event-Driven Systems

High-Performance Data Engine

Job description

This range is provided by Workonomics. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Size | 2k globally, 280 in London (80 in Engineering, Design, Product)

Level | Senior, or Lead

Areas | backend infrastructure, distributed systems, data processing

Based | London (Zone 1)

Hybrid | 3 days a week in-office

Workonomics are partnering with a well-known, much-loved, multi-product SaaS company.

They're an established, profitable, maturing business, with millions of users globally.

They've two key strategic, technical initiatives for 2025:

• shaping their enterprise product offering for customers with 100k+ users
• scaling their core data capabilities by 100x to open bigger commercial opportunities

They're looking for Senior and Lead Engineers in London to:

• join their backend infrastructure focused group
• build a new high-performance data engine
• ensure fast queries, high availability, and low-latency data processing across the platform
• look after resilience and observability, ensuring data integrity and service uptime
• are a Senior+ level backend-leaning software engineer
• care about making a quantifiable impact on the business you're operating in
• have a background in building commercial web apps / SaaS at high scale
• have ideally used event-driven systems to manage high-throughput operations

They really value people who can demonstrate a good degree of longevity within each employer, to show they've grown with the product long term, through different phases of its evolution.

If this sounds like you, please hit apply for more specifics about the company and role.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

Software Development and Technology, Information and Media