Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
An innovative technology business is seeking a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help shape the architecture and scalability of a rapidly growing AI-driven platform. You will own key backend components from design through deployment and optimization while influencing technical direction and engineering standards.
Highlights
High-impact senior backend role with ownership of major platform components and genuine influence over architecture, technology choices, product direction, and engineering standards.
Description
Backend Senior Software Engineer
London (Hybrid)
£90,000 - £100,000
Here at Data Idols, we're working with an innovative technology business that is scaling a cutting-edge AI-powered platform used by enterprise clients globally.
As the platform continues to grow, they're looking for a Backend Senior Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping its future architecture, scalability and technical direction.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing engineering team where you'll have genuine influence over architecture, technology decisions, product direction and engineering standards.
The Opportunity
As a Backend Senior Software Engineer, you'll take ownership of key platform components from design through to deployment, optimisation and ongoing support.
Working within a modern cloud-native environment, you'll help design, build and scale the backend services that power an AI-driven platform entering a significant growth phase and supporting an increasingly large enterprise customer base.
You'll be solving complex engineering challenges around scalability, performance and reliability, designing distributed systems and building resilient enterprise-grade software that forms the foundation of the platform.
This is a highly visible role where you'll collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps, influence architecture decisions and contribute to the long-term evolution of the platform.
You'll be responsible for delivering high-quality, resilient software, improving engineering processes and tooling, and driving best practice across development, testing, deployment and monitoring.
Skills and Experience
Strong commercial experience developing backend software using Python, alongside experience with languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, C++ or similarCommercial experience with TypeScriptExperience building and operating applications within AWS/GCP environmentsStrong understanding of scalable system design and distributed systemsHands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practicesExperience building resilient, cloud-native, enterprise-grade applicationsIf you're an experienced backend software engineer looking to solve complex technical challenges and help shape a modern cloud-native platform, we'd love to hear from you.
Backend Senior Software Engineer
