Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Senior / Lead Backend Engineer

Hybrid

£85000-£130000

If you’re a backend engineer who wants more ownership, more autonomy, and work that actually matters, this one’s worth a look.

I’m hiring for a fast-growing tech company rebuilding a core platform used by hundreds of thousands of customers.

Small team. Big impact. Real engineering challenges.

The role

You’ll work across the backend platform powering key customer-facing experiences.

You will :

• Design and build scalable backend services in Node.js + TypeScript
• Own systems end-to-end (architecture → deployment → monitoring)
• Develop APIs and platform components used across multiple products
• Solve performance, reliability and observability challenges
• Ship iteratively with product + design

Improve engineering quality and share knowledge

If you enjoy autonomy and seeing your work hit production quickly, you’ll love this environment.

What you’ll bring

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience
• Strong with Node.js, TypeScript, and API design
• A real interest in product engineering
• Experience building production systems at scale
• Good architectural judgement

Comfortable in fast-moving, high-ownership teams

Nice to have

• PostgreSQL
• Event-driven systems
• Auth
• Microservices
• Observability
• CI / CD

Why this is a great move

• High ownership from day one
• Real product impact
• Well-funded, fast-growing tech company
• Smart, low-ego engineering team
• Work on meaningful problems — not endless tickets

Interested?

Please click the ‘Apply’ button. Don’t worry if your CV isn’t up to date. Just send what you have and we’ll deal with that later.