Staff Backend Engineer, Platform

Markin; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Markin is seeking a senior backend architect to drive the technical direction of our ingestion, orchestration, and action-dispatch services in London. You will set the standards for reliability, observability, and cost while guiding a team of senior engineers to raise the technical bar.

You will partner with ML and product teams to ensure the platform remains ahead of demand and scales to enterprise-grade requirements with strict SLAs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of backend engineering experience.
• Deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Track record of shipping to enterprise customers with hard SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture across ingestion, orchestration and action dispatch.
• Set standards for reliability, observability and cost across the platform.
• Coach senior engineers; raise the technical bar of the team.
• Partner with ML and product to keep the platform ahead of demand.

Skills

Backend architecture

Distributed systems

Event-driven architectures

Enterprise SLAs

Staff-level leadership

Job description

About The Role

You will set the technical direction for the services that ingest signals, run agents and dispatch actions across every channel our customers use.

What you\'ll do

• Lead architecture across ingestion, orchestration and action dispatch.


• Set standards for reliability, observability and cost across the platform.


• Coach senior engineers; raise the technical bar of the team.


• Partner with ML and product to keep the platform ahead of demand.

What we\'re looking for

• 8+ years of backend engineering, with staff-level scope at a serious product.


• Deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.


• Track record of shipping to enterprise customers with hard SLAs.

Nice to have

• Experience running ML or decisioning platforms at scale.


• Background in fintech, telco, streaming or gaming infra.