Staff Backend Engineer – Remote UK, Impact-Driven

Slice; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Access to medical, dental, and vision

Flexible working hours

Generous time off policies

£200 per annum wellbeing allowance

Maternity and paternity schemes

Job summary

Slice is hiring a Staff Software Developer to join our Services team across the UK. You’ll design, build, and ship backend features in Python (Flask), with optional Go or Ruby work and cloud services, delivering reliable, scalable solutions for our restaurant partners.

You will own end-to-end projects in a small, distributed team, collaborate with product and design, and advocate for performance, testing, and monitoring. The role is remote-friendly with a Belfast office for onsite collaboration.

Qualifications

• Owner mindset: act like a founder and own problems end-to-end.
• Proven builder: experience crafting scalable backend systems (Python Flask) and cloud services.
• Remote-ready collaborator: effective in distributed teams and async communication.
• Product & customer focus: align code with end-user needs and restaurant partners.
• Innovative problem solver: seek asymmetric wins and creative solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build innovative backend features and services to help restaurant partners operate efficiently.
• Identify high-impact opportunities where small changes yield large value.
• Own projects end-to-end from concept through production and iteration.
• Use best tools and languages (Python/Flask; Go/Ruby) as needed for scalable solutions.
• Collaborate in a small, agile team across multiple time zones to maintain code quality and performance.

Skills

Owner’s mindset

Proven builder

Remote-ready collaborator

Product & customer focus

Innovative problem solver

Tools

Go

Ruby

Cloud services

Job description

Slice is hiring a Staff Software Developer to join our Services team across the UK. You’ll design, build, and ship backend features in Python (Flask), with optional Go or Ruby work and cloud services, delivering reliable, scalable solutions for our restaurant partners.

You will own end-to-end projects in a small, distributed team, collaborate with product and design, and advocate for performance, testing, and monitoring. The role is remote-friendly with a Belfast office for onsite collaboration.