Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A backend engineering role focused on designing scalable services, APIs, and cloud architectures. The position requires strong programming skills, database expertise, and experience building reliable distributed systems.
Highlights
Work on scalable cloud-based backend systems with modern architecture patterns and advanced data technologies.
Description
Core Backend Engineering
• Advanced proficiency in one or more backend languages (e.g.
C#/.NET )
• Strong understanding of object-oriented and/or functional design principles
• Design and implementation of scalable, maintainable backend services
• Deep experience with API design (REST, OpenAPI, versioning, backwards
compatibility)
• Strong grasp of error handling, retries, idempotency, and resilience patterns
Cloud Architecture & Azure Platform Expertise
• Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure PaaS services, including:
o Azure App Service / Container Apps / AKS
o Azure Functions (event-driven and durable patterns)
o Azure Service Bus, Event Grid, Event Hubs
o Azure Storage (Blob, Queue, Table)
Data & Persistence
• Advanced experience with relational databases (e.g.
SQL Server, Azure SQL)
including:
o Query optimisation
o Indexing strategies
o Transaction management
• Hands-on experience with NoSQL data stores, particularly Cosmos DB
o Partition strategy design
o Consistency models
• Experience with data access abstraction patterns and ORMs
• Understanding of data integrity, migration, and schema evolution
Security & Compliance Engineering
• Secure API and service design including:
o OAuth2 / OpenID Connect
o Managed identities
• Knowledge of Azure AD / Entra ID integration patterns
• Implementation of role-based access control (RBAC) and least-privilege
principles
• Secure handling of secrets using Azure Key Vault
• Awareness of secure coding practices and enterprise compliance expectations
DevOps, CI/CD & Automation
• Strong experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (e.g.
Azure DevOps)
• GitHub actions experience would be beneficial also.
• Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, ARM.
• Automated testing strategies (unit, integration, contract tests)
Engineering Quality & Ways of Working
• Strong test-first and quality-focused mindset
• Participates actively in code reviews and technical discussions
• Comfortable influencing technical standards and best practices
• Works effectively in agile teams and contributes to engineering maturity
improvements
Search, Indexing & AI-Augmented Retrieval (Azure AI Search)
A senior backend developer highly proficient in Azure should demonstrate:
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure AI Search (formerly Cognitive Search)
• Design and implementation of search indexes supporting structured,
semi-structured, and unstructured data
• Definition of:
o Index schemas
o Searchable, filterable, facetable, and sortable fields
o Custom analysers and tokenisation strategies
• Implementation of indexers and data sources (e.g.
Azure SQL, Blob Storage)
