Senior Backend Engineer – Up to £90k + Equity – Fully Remote UK
The Opportunity :
Join a high-growth consumer tech scaleup building a next-generation platform powering millions of active users. This is a chance to work in a fast-moving engineering environment where you’ll own meaningful parts of the backend, shape infrastructure and directly influence product direction as the business scales.
You’ll work within a compact, experienced engineering group that owns work end-to-end and ships ideas into production at pace.
About the Role :
They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer with strong infrastructure instincts to help evolve a large-scale, data-driven platform. The role is roughly split across :
This will be primarily a backend development role focused on data flows and APIs, with some involvement in infrastructure and DevOps, including CI / CD and reliability.
You’ll work closely with product, design and engineering leadership, playing a key role in :
* Designing and scaling backend services that support multi-product features
* Strengthening cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
* Building robust, well-tested systems that can handle high user engagement
* Improving developer experience, performance and reliability across the platform
* Contributing to technical decisions across architecture, tooling and best practice
The environment suits engineers who enjoy autonomy, take ownership end-to-end and thrive in fast feedback loops.
Tech Environment :
The team prioritises strong cloud engineering fundamentals over specific language experience, but the following would be ideal :
* Cloud : GCP
* Languages : Python
* Infra : IaC experience, Kubernetes, CI / CD, modern observability
Exposure to high-usage, data-rich consumer systems would be a strong advantage.
An interest in sport or fantasy products is beneficial but not essential.
Skills / Experience :
* Strong backend engineering experience with production-scale systems
* Solid systems design fundamentals and API development experience
* Experience owning services end-to-end (from build → release → operate)
* Comfort working across both backend and infrastructure layers
* Experience in high-growth environments or platforms with significant usage
* Problem-solving mindset, curiosity and high attention to detail
* Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
A high-ownership engineering culture, rapid iteration environment and the chance to influence technical direction across both product and platform.
If you’d like to explore this further, apply now.
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