Senior Backend Engineer

£70,000 - £80,000 GBP

Hybrid WORKING

Location: Holborn , Central London, Greater London - United KingdomType: Permanent

We're looking for a Backend Engineer to help design, build and scale modern backend services that power a market-leading digital platform.

You'll join a collaborative engineering team where you'll work alongside Product, Design and Commercial teams to build high-performance applications using modern technologies. This is an opportunity to influence technical direction, contribute to architectural decisions and mentor other engineers while working on exciting, large-scale systems.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services using Python
• Translate business requirements into robust technical solutions and architecture
• Develop APIs and microservices that are reliable, secure and easy to maintain
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design and Engineering teams to deliver new features
• Take part in code reviews, pair programming and technical discussions
• Identify opportunities to improve development practices, tooling and Agile processes
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership across the team
• Contribute ideas around new technologies, frameworks and engineering best practice

Tech Stack

• Python
• Django
• FastAPI
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• Kafka
• Elasticsearch
• Redis
• Kubernetes
• GitHub

What We're Looking For

• Strong commercial experience developing backend applications with Python
• Experience building scalable APIs and distributed systems
• Good understanding of object-oriented design, SOLID principles and software architecture
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and data modelling
• Experience working with cloud platforms, ideally AWS
• Excellent problem-solving skills and a passion for clean, maintainable code
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work across technical and non-technical teams
• Experience mentoring or supporting other developers is desirable

If you think you're a good fit, or know somebody that would be well suited for this role we would love to hear from you!