Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer Location: Dunton Essex - 4 days minimum mandatory onsite Rate: £67.15ph Umbrella Co Basis (Inside IR35) Employment Type: Contract (31.12.26) Hours: Standard 37.5 Hours Per Week Reference: F56475 The Senior Backend Engineer plays a pivotal role in driving the technical success in our backend teams. This position involves architecting scalable, resilient, and secure backend solutions and overseeing the technical completion of critical development tasks, often in ambiguous situations. The Senior Backend Engineer is responsible for ensuring that backend code and architectural reviews are aligned with organisational goals, facilitating productive technical discussions, and making decisions to resolve complex backend engineering issues effectively. In this role, the Senior Backend Engineer supports the technical direction for backend development, offering guidance to team members and exemplifying technical excellence in backend practices. Collaboration with frontend, DevOps, and other engineering teams is essential to ensure technical alignment across the organisation. The role also involves leading efforts to implement process improvements within backend development workflows, thereby enhancing productivity and output quality through innovation and collaboration. Strong expertise in backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js) is essential, alongside responsibility for cr...