backend developer in global digital products

British Council; Polska; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The British Council’s Digital and Technology Directorate seeks an experienced Backend engineering leader to mentor teams, design scalable services, and drive secure, high-performing backend systems.

You will collaborate with product managers, data analysts, and business partners to plan projects, implement services in .NET, Node.js, Python, and orchestrate containers with Docker and Kubernetes, while upholding security, testing, and DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable backend engineering experience designing scalable systems.
• Strong knowledge of backend technologies and architectures.
• Proficiency in .NET, C#, PHP, NodeJS, or Python; frameworks like Symfony/Express/Django.
• Experience with cloud (AWS/Azure) and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to backend engineers.
• Plan and deliver backend projects with PMs and stakeholders.
• Design, code, review, test, and document backend solutions.
• Ensure security, risk, compliance, and data privacy.
• Develop analytics and reporting capabilities.

Skills

Backend leadership

Distributed systems

RESTful APIs

Cloud architectures

Microservices

CI/CD

Testing (unit/integration)

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

English communication

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Software Eng or 3 years equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Tableau

Job description

Описание:

The British Council’s Digital and Technology Directorate drives the organisation’s digital strategy and transformation. It delivers customer-focused digital products, scalable platforms and technology solutions that enable growth, impact and efficiency. Its Engineering team develops and maintains global digital products and services, championing reusable capabilities, effective engineering practices, innovation, and secure, accessible technology solutions.

Задачи:

Provide technical leadership and mentoring to backend engineers, promoting coding best practices, quality standards, collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. Contribute to recruitment activities and identify opportunities for cost optimisation and efficiency. Plan and deliver backend engineering projects with product managers, stakeholders, and business partners. Design, code, review, test, and document backend solutions, adopting emerging technologies and delivering against project milestones. Ensure backend systems meet security, risk, compliance, and data privacy requirements by identifying vulnerabilities and maintaining monitoring and logging mechanisms. Incorporate customer feedback and analyse system performance and usage patterns with customer success teams, data analysts, and business analysts. Identify opportunities for continuous optimisation. Develop analytics and reporting capabilities. Prepare reports and presentations on engineering performance, progress, and insights for stakeholders.

Требования:

• Demonstrable backend engineering experience designing and implementing scalable, high-performance systems
• Strong knowledge of backend technologies, frameworks, and architectures
• Proficiency in .Net, C#, PHP, NodeJS, or Python, and experience with frameworks such as Symfony, Express, or Django
• Understanding of distributed systems, cloud architectures such as AWS or Azure, and microservices
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, and query optimisation
• Knowledge of RESTful APIs, message queues, caching, containerisation, and orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Jenkins or Terraform
• Understanding of frontend technologies such as React or Angular
• Skilled in end-to-end, unit, and integration testing with tools such as Cypress, Jest, or Playwright
• Prototyping skills and experience in resource allocation, management, and component optimisation
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Skilled in agile development (Scrum/Kanban), software patterns, test- and behaviour-driven development, and version control
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or 3 years of equivalent experience in a related discipline
• Continuous learning through online courses, workshops, and industry conferences to stay current with backend development technologies and best practices
• Candidates must already have the legal right to work in Poland at the time of application
• Будет плюсом: experience leading a technical development project, familiarity with event-driven architecture and stream processing frameworks such as Kafka or Apache Flink, knowledge of security best practices and authentication and authorisation protocols such as OAuth or JWT, knowledge of data analytics and visualisation tools such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, or Tableau, a master’s degree in computer science or a relevant specialisation

Условия:

• Indefinite contract
• Hybrid working may be explored, subject to full approval by line management and the ability to provide the appropriate level of service; it may not be suitable for all roles
• Mobility, relocation, and visa sponsorship support will not be provided