Principal Backend Engineer - Fully Remote, Mentoring Impact

SchemeServe Limited; United States; A distancia; USD 150.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Fully remote UK-based role

Twice-yearly company retreats

Flexible working

Dedicated professional development

Paid charity days

Descripción de la vacante

SchemeServe Limited, a cloud-based insurance software company, is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer. This remote UK-based role partners with the CTO to shape architecture and engineering direction, guiding teams to deliver secure, scalable software.

You’ll influence design choices, mentor engineers, and ensure pragmatic trade-offs. A deep backend, API design, and cloud experience are essential for success in this deeply technical position.

Formación

• 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.
• Cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure.

Responsabilidades

• Shape our backend engineering strategy, architecture and technical direction.
• Help engineers make better technical and architectural decisions.
• Develop sensible engineering principles and guardrails without over-regulation.
• Guide the evolution of our monolith and service-based platform.
• Coach and mentor engineers to grow their technical skills and judgement.
• Review major designs and challenge unnecessary complexity.
• Champion security, quality, testing, observability, resilience and performance.
• Identify technical risks and help teams navigate them.
• Evaluate technologies by business value, not popularity.
• Balance long-term quality with short-term business needs.
• Occasionally contribute directly to implementation when helpful.
• Be a generally awesome person.

Conocimientos

Backend engineering leadership

C#/.NET expert

Software architecture

Distributed systems

API design

Descripción del empleo

SchemeServe Limited, a cloud-based insurance software company, is hiring a Principal Backend Engineer. This remote UK-based role partners with the CTO to shape architecture and engineering direction, guiding teams to deliver secure, scalable software.

You’ll influence design choices, mentor engineers, and ensure pragmatic trade-offs. A deep backend, API design, and cloud experience are essential for success in this deeply technical position.