Backend Architecture Lead (Remote)

SchemeServe Limited; United States; Remote; USD 121,000 - 188,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote UK-based role

Twice-yearly company retreats

Flexible working

Professional development support

Paid charity days

Job summary

SchemeServe Limited, a cloud-based insurance software company, seeks an exceptional Principal Backend Engineer to elevate backend engineering across the organization. You will partner with the CTO, shape architecture, guide engineering principles, and mentor engineers to raise technical judgment.

You will influence without authority, review designs, and drive pragmatic solutions while keeping security, performance, and maintainability front and center.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in modern backend engineering and strong commercial C#/.NET experience.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems and API design.
• Experience with mature legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures.
• Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure.
• Excellent understanding of databases, security, testing, maintainability and modern software delivery.
• Experience shaping engineering principles and practices across teams.
• A track record of making engineers around you better through mentoring, coaching and technical leadership.
• The ability to challenge experienced engineers constructively without becoming a gatekeeper.
• Strong opinions, loosely held – the confidence to challenge and the humility to change your mind
• Excellent communication and the ability to influence without relying on authority.
• Excellent technical judgement, balancing quality, complexity, risk, cost and business value.

Responsibilities

• Shape our backend engineering strategy, architecture and technical direction.
• Help engineers make better technical and architectural decisions.
• Develop sensible engineering principles and guardrails without replacing good judgement with rules.
• Guide the continued evolution of our monolith and modern service-based platform.
• Coach and mentor engineers, developing their technical skills and judgement.
• Review significant designs and architectural decisions and challenge unnecessary complexity.

Skills

Backend engineering

Software architecture

API design

Mentoring/coaching

Security

Observability

Performance

Decision making

Communication

Mentoring, coaching

Tools

Azure

Cloudflare

SQL Server

PostgreSQL

TypeScript

Job description

SchemeServe Limited, a cloud-based insurance software company, seeks an exceptional Principal Backend Engineer to elevate backend engineering across the organization. You will partner with the CTO, shape architecture, guide engineering principles, and mentor engineers to raise technical judgment.

You will influence without authority, review designs, and drive pragmatic solutions while keeping security, performance, and maintainability front and center.