Senior Backend Engineer

Job description

Join a lean, high-calibre engineering team building distributed systems at significant scale. Design resilient backend services, drive architectural decisions, and solve complex performance challenges for a high-growth financial services platform

Client Details

Our client is a technology-led financial services organisation building highly sophisticated platforms that operate at significant scale.

Description

Architect and build large-scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

Design event-driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.

Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.

Own systems end-to-end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.

Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI-driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Profile

Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.

Proven experience operating services handling 20,000-30,000+ requests per second and large-scale user traffic.

Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.

Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission-critical platforms.

Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.

Job Offer

Opportunity to solve genuinely complex engineering problems at significant scale within a highly technical environment.

Competitive compensation package alongside strong career growth and exposure to cutting-edge platform engineering challenges.

Skills

BACKEND