Remote Backend Jobs

This role sits within the CISO Advantage team, building a product that democratises access to enterprise grade cybersecurity leadership for organisations of all sizes.

As a Software Engineer, you will contribute to designing, developing, testing, and maintaining high-quality software components. You will work closely with senior engineers, support product delivery, and continually build your technical skills while learning best practices in cloud native engineering, security, and scalable system development.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of product features that align with technical strategy, quality standards, and functional requirements.
• Participate in security reviews of new development to help ensure compliance with Sophos security requirements and industry best practices.

Requirements

• Practical experience building backend services or APIs in a modern programming language (TypeScript preferred but not required).
• Experience writing clean, maintainable code accompanied by automated tests.
• Ability to debug production issues methodically and collaborate with senior engineers on complex problems.
• Solid problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• TypeScript backend development experience using Node.js/TypeScript for API or service layer development, understanding runtime considerations, type driven development, dependency injection, and module architecture.
• Microservice architecture familiarity with distributed system concepts such as service boundaries, interservice communication, API gateways, observability, logging/metrics, configuration management, and handling failure modes gracefully (timeouts, retries, backoff, circuit breakers).
• Experience with containerized development workflows (Docker and Kubernetes), cloud platforms, or serverless components.
• Knowledge of messaging systems or event-driven patterns is a plus.
• Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.