Senior Backend Engineer
90000GBP - 110000GBP
London, United Kingdom
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
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Senior Backend Engineer

This is a chance to join a product-led, profitable tech business where backend engineering genuinely matters.

The platform processes billions of requests annually, serves both consumers and enterprise customers, and ships changes multiple times a week. You’ll be working on systems where performance, reliability and clean design aren’t “nice to haves” – they’re non-negotiable.

If you enjoy shipping, iterating fast, and seeing real users feel the impact of your work, this one’s for you.

🏢 The Company
  • Established, highly successful tech product with global reach

  • Profitable and well-funded, with strong, sustainable growth

  • Remote-first across Europe with regular in-person meetups

  • Engineering-driven culture with high standards and high trust

  • Real customers, real scale, real problems

This is not an early experiment. It’s a mature product that still moves quickly.

🧠 The Profile They’re Looking For

They’re looking for a senior backend engineer who takes ownership and enjoys operating at scale.

You’ll likely recognise yourself in most of the following:

  • 5+ years commercial experience with Django & Django REST Framework

  • Strong relational database experience (Postgres or MySQL) at scale

  • Comfortable working with large datasets (100GB+)

  • Confident designing APIs in close collaboration with frontend teams

  • Pragmatic mindset – shipping value beats theoretical perfection

  • Happy making product and technical decisions, not waiting for permission

You don’t need to tick every box perfectly. Strong fundamentals and good judgement matter most.

🛠️ What You’ll Be Working On

You’ll own backend features end to end, including:

  • Designing and building new backend functionality

  • Improving performance, latency, and scalability of existing endpoints

  • Working closely with product and frontend teams on API design

  • Monitoring production systems and iterating based on real usage

  • Shipping changes frequently and safely

This is a role with real responsibility – from architecture and implementation through to observing how things behave in production.

⚙️ Engineering Culture

This team values:

  • Fast feedback loops and frequent releases

  • Data-driven decision making

  • Clean, pragmatic backend design

  • Ownership over hand-offs

  • Trust and autonomy over micromanagement

You’ll be expected to think, decide, and execute like a senior engineer – and you’ll be supported to do exactly that

Senior Backend Engineer
90000GBP - 110000GBP
London, United Kingdom
Python
Django
PostgreSQL
More jobs from this company
views: 0

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