Staff Backend Engineer - Scale Payments & Health Tech

Ro; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Equity

Flexible time off

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangement

Snacks & lunches

Gym stipend

Learning stipend

Job summary

Ro is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Commerce Platform, acting as a technical leader, mentor, and architect. You will drive distributed backend systems using Python and FastAPI, focusing on payments, pricing, and invoicing, while mentoring engineers and aligning cross-functional teams.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure scalable, reliable delivery, define SLIs/SLOs, and participate in on-call rotations to uphold service quality.

Qualifications

• 7-10+ years backend software development experience

Responsibilities

• Lead technical roadmaps balancing product needs with long-term stability and maintainability

Skills

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

On-call readiness

Performance tuning

Observability

Architecture & design

Python

FastAPI

Tools

FastAPI

Django

Python

Datadog

Relational databases

APIs

Job description

Ro is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to shape the Commerce Platform, acting as a technical leader, mentor, and architect. You will drive distributed backend systems using Python and FastAPI, focusing on payments, pricing, and invoicing, while mentoring engineers and aligning cross-functional teams.

You will collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to ensure scalable, reliable delivery, define SLIs/SLOs, and participate in on-call rotations to uphold service quality.