Backend Engineer

Early-stage technology business | eCommerce | remote

We're working with an ambitious, early-stage technology business developing innovative solutions for eCommerce brands. They're looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer to play a key role in building and scaling their technology platform. This is an opportunity to take ownership of backend architecture and engineering, working across API development, data pipelines, background job processing and infrastructure. You'll have the autonomy to make technical decisions, build robust systems and influence how the platform evolves as the business grows.

• Designing and building robust, scalable backend systems and services.
• Developing and maintaining APIs and backend architecture.
• Architecting infrastructure for job processing, analytics and event tracking.
• Building internal tools to support authentication, rate limiting and quota management.
• Working with data pipelines and background processing systems.
• Optimising system performance, security and scalability.
• Taking ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, including code quality, testing, infrastructure and monitoring.
• Collaborating closely with product, design and customer experience teams to deliver new features.
• Identifying opportunities to improve development processes, tooling and technical architecture.

• Languages:
  
  Python, Type Script Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, SQS, Parameter Store), Docker Databases & Data:
  PostgreSQL, Redis CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions Monitoring & Observability:
  Log Fire, Sentry
• At least 4 years' experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.
• Strong programming skills and the ability to write clean, maintainable and well-structured code.
• Experience designing databases, APIs and backend infrastructure.
• An understanding of high-throughput systems and background job queues.
• A strong sense of ownership, taking responsibility for code, infrastructure, testing and monitoring.
• The confidence to make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.
• A genuine interest in developer experience and building tools and systems that make life easier for other engineers.
• Rate limiting, authentication systems and quota management.
• Analytics, attribution engineering and event tracking.
• Data platforms such as dbt and Snowflake.
• Building WYSIWYG editors.
• PDF generation, rendering processes and image manipulation.
• Server-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js or Remix.

This is a chance to join an early-stage technology business at an exciting point in its development, taking genuine ownership of its backend engineering and helping shape the technical foundations of a growing platform.

We are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We believe diverse teams bring different ideas and approaches, and encourage applications from anyone who feels they have the skills and experience to succeed in this role.

You'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the backend systems that underpin the platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, security and reliability.