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Senior Backend Engineer

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment
Derbyshire, United Kingdom
Last month
£85,000 – £90,000 pa

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£85,000 – £90,000 pa

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Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
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Degree
Posted
20 Apr 2026 (Last month)
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Senior Backend Engineer

Derbyshire. Hybrid, 3 days onsite. £85,000 to £90,000

This is a senior backend role with real scale and complexity, focused on building and evolving the services that underpin a large, high traffic ecommerce platform. The team is looking for engineers who enjoy ownership, ambiguity, and solving problems in fast moving environments rather than operating within rigid processes.

The Company

They are a large, digitally led retail and ecommerce organisation investing heavily in modern platform engineering. Their technology teams support dozens of consumer facing websites and applications, all powered by a shared microservices architecture. Engineering plays a central role in the business, with strong expectations around accountability, delivery, and technical quality.

The Role

  • Design, build, and scale Node.js and TypeScript microservices that support critical ecommerce journeys.
  • Develop and maintain REST and GraphQL APIs used across web and mobile platforms.
  • Work on high impact areas such as checkout, payments, and core transactional flows.
  • Integrate with external systems including CMS platforms, payment providers, and third party services.
  • Operate in a fast paced, high volume environment where change is constant.
  • Take ownership of streams of work, from technical design through to production support.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and overall platform resilience.

Your Skills and Experience

  • Strong commercial experience building backend services with Node.js and TypeScript.
  • Hands on experience with microservices architectures and API driven systems.
  • Background working in high traffic, high change environments such as ecommerce, gaming, hospitality, or similar.
  • Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Azure, and modern DevOps practices.
  • Comfortable working with both SQL and NoSQL data stores.
  • A problem solving mindset with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous situations.
  • Confidence taking ownership without relying on heavy process or close supervision.

What They Offer

  • The opportunity to work at genuine scale on systems used by millions of customers.
  • A senior role with clear ownership, influence, and long term progression within backend and platform engineering.

How to Apply

If you are a backend engineer who thrives in high impact environments and wants to build systems at scale, apply now to find out more.

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