Senior Backend Engineer — Remote with Equity

develop; United States; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

develop is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a profitable, growing technology business in a remote UK role. You will work in a smaller product engineering environment with genuine ownership and influence, focusing on backend or full stack work across APIs, distributed services, and architecture.

The role emphasizes solving complex problems, evaluating trade-offs, and owning technical direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams across product development, cloud

Qualifications

• Experience building customer-focused products/systems with multiple moving parts.
• Ability to explain trade-offs in system design and decisions.
• Experience across technologies and ability to pick up new ones quickly.
• Hands-on developer who can influence architecture and direction.
• Comfortable taking ownership without heavy process or structure.
• Ideally prior startup/scale-up/fintech or fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and influence backend and frontend architecture across the product.
• Collaborate across engineering, product, cloud infrastructure, and AI initiatives.
• Contribute to API design, distributed services, and scalable systems.

Skills

Backend engineering

Full-stack

System design

Ownership

Architectural thinking

Tools

C#

GraphQL

APIs

React/Blazor

DevOps

CI/CD

Cloud

Systems architecture

Job description

develop is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join a profitable, growing technology business in a remote UK role. You will work in a smaller product engineering environment with genuine ownership and influence, focusing on backend or full stack work across APIs, distributed services, and architecture.

The role emphasizes solving complex problems, evaluating trade-offs, and owning technical direction while collaborating with cross-functional teams across product development, cloud