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Software Engineer
Job summary
A leading consumer tech company is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growth-focused team. This fully remote role involves designing and scaling backend services for a data-driven platform, with an emphasis on cloud infrastructure and APIs. Candidates should have robust backend engineering experience, a solid grasp of systems design, and the ability to manage services throughout their lifecycle. The fast-paced environment values autonomy and strong collaboration skills.
Qualifications
- Strong backend engineering experience with production-scale systems.
- Solid systems design fundamentals and API development experience.
- Experience owning services end-to-end (from build to operate).
- Comfort working across both backend and infrastructure layers.
- Experience in high-growth environments or platforms with significant usage.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Designing and scaling backend services that support multi-product features.
- Strengthening cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
- Building robust, well-tested systems that can handle high user engagement.
- Improving developer experience, performance and reliability across the platform.
- Contributing to technical decisions across architecture, tooling and best practice.
Skills
Tools
The Opportunity :
Join a high-growth consumer tech scaleup building a next-generation platform powering millions of active users. This is a chance to work in a fast-moving engineering environment where you’ll own meaningful parts of the backend, shape infrastructure and directly influence product direction as the business scales.
You’ll work within a compact, experienced engineering group that owns work end-to-end and ships ideas into production at pace.
They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong infrastructure instincts to help evolve a large-scale, data-driven platform. The role is roughly split across :
This will be primarily a backend development role focused on data flows and APIs, with some involvement in infrastructure and DevOps, including CI / CD and reliability.
You’ll work closely with product, design and engineering leadership, playing a key role in :
- Designing and scaling backend services that support multi-product features
- Strengthening cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Building robust, well-tested systems that can handle high user engagement
- Improving developer experience, performance and reliability across the platform
- Contributing to technical decisions across architecture, tooling and best practice
The environment suits engineers who enjoy autonomy, take ownership end-to-end and thrive in fast feedback loops.
The team prioritises strong cloud engineering fundamentals over specific language experience, but the following would be ideal :
- Cloud : GCP
- Languages : Python
- Infra : IaC experience, Kubernetes, CI / CD, modern observability
Exposure to high-usage, data-rich consumer systems would be a strong advantage.
An interest in sport or fantasy products is beneficial but not essential.
- Strong backend engineering experience with production-scale systems
- Solid systems design fundamentals and API development experience
- Experience owning services end-to-end (from build → release → operate)
- Comfort working across both backend and infrastructure layers
- Experience in high-growth environments or platforms with significant usage
- Problem-solving mindset, curiosity and high attention to detail
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
A high-ownership engineering culture, rapid iteration environment and the chance to influence technical direction across both product and platform.
If you’d like to explore this further, apply now.
* The salary benchmark is based on the target salaries of market leaders in their relevant sectors. It is intended to serve as a guide to help Premium Members assess open positions and to help in salary negotiations. The salary benchmark is not provided directly by the company, which could be significantly higher or lower.