Senior Backend Engineer - Global Scale, Remote & Equity

Runtime

Ireland

Remote

EUR 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

35 days leave (incl. bank holidays)

Birthday off

Flexible hours & remote work

Pension contributions (Aviva) up to 8%

Sick leave up to 10 days/year

Private medical insurance (Bupa) & opt

EV vehicle leasing

High-performance laptop & company swag

Self-learning platforms

Job summary

Runtime is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join a fast-growing developer tools company trusted to protect and accelerate software delivery. You’ll own backend services built in Python/Django and run the AWS infrastructure, with an emphasis on reliability, observability, and performance.

You will work across distributed systems, own infrastructure with Terraform, and mentor peers while delivering high-impact features at global scale.

Qualifications

5+ years building and operating distributed systems in production.
Strong Python background, ideally with Django.
Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka or similar) and high-volume data pipelines.
Comfortable with AWS.

Responsibilities

Building and shipping backend features and optimisations that matter at global scale.
Designing event-driven services on Kafka and data pipelines that handle high volumes reliably.
Keeping systems fast, reliable and observable across a distributed architecture.
Owning the infrastructure your services run on, with Terraform and AWS.
Raising engineering standards through testing, code review and mentoring.