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Staff Backend Engineer – Platform

Markinai — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 day ago

Lead

Skills

Backend engineering Distributed systems Event-driven architecture Platform architecture Reliability engineering Observability Cost optimization Technical leadership Engineering mentorship Enterprise systems SLA delivery ML platforms

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Summary

Lead the technical direction of a high-scale backend platform responsible for ingesting signals, orchestrating intelligent workflows, and dispatching actions across multiple customer channels. You will define architecture and engineering standards for reliability, observability, performance, and cost, mentor senior engineers, and partner closely with machine-learning and product teams. The role requires at least eight years of backend experience, deep expertise in distributed and event-driven systems, and a proven record of delivering enterprise-grade services under demanding service-level requirements.

Highlights

Staff-level platform leadership with broad architectural ownership, direct influence on reliability and scalability, close collaboration with ML and product teams, and responsibility for raising engineering standards.

Description

About The Role You will set the technical direction for the services that ingest signals, run agents and dispatch actions across every channel our customers use. What you'll do Lead architecture across ingestion, orchestration and action dispatch.Set standards for reliability, observability and cost across the platform.Coach senior engineers; raise the technical bar of the team.Partner with ML and product to keep the platform ahead of demand. What we're looking for 8+ years of backend engineering, with staff-level scope at a serious product.Deep experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures.Track record of shipping to enterprise customers with hard SLAs. Nice to have Experience running ML or decisioning platforms at scale.Background in fintech, telco, streaming or gaming infra.