Backend Engineer - Nottingham City

Contract type: Permanent

Hours: Full-time, 35 hours

Location: Head Office, Nottingham (Hybrid working, minimum 2 days per week)

Join us as a Backend Engineer and help build the powerful services that drive brilliant customer and internal experiences. You will design and deliver secure, scalable, high performance APIs in close collaboration with Product, Frontend and Engineering leadership. From shaping technical direction to owning implementation and operational excellence, you will play a key role in building reliable, future proof systems. You will champion code quality, service health and continuous improvement, strengthening engineering discipline while keeping delivery pragmatic and impactful. If you love solving complex problems, shaping platform strategy and making a real difference at scale, this is the role for you.

Here’s a taste of what you will be doing as a Backend Developer at Nottingham Building Society:

• Build Backend Services: Develop microservices using Node (primary) and Python.
• Create Quality APIs: Deliver well-structured APIs and integrations with internal and external systems.
• Write Great Code: Produce clean, testable, maintainable code that meets engineering standards.
• Shape Solutions: Contribute to technical design discussions and architecture decisions.
• Ensure Reliability: Build secure, resilient and high-performance services.
• Support Production: Investigate and resolve incidents, ensuring stable service operations.
• Improve Engineering Practice: Participate in code reviews and drive continuous improvement.
• Enable Smooth Delivery: Work within CI/CD pipelines and contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing.

About you:

• Strong Engineering Foundations: Solid understanding of backend fundamentals, API design, data modelling and system integration.
• Cloud and DevOps Savvy: Familiar with cloud architectures, modern deployment practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Quality and Reliability Mindset: Aware of security, performance and resilience considerations across services.
• Problem Solver: Confident troubleshooting issues across code, infrastructure and third-party integrations.
• Effective Communicator: Able to clearly explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Commercial Experience: Proven background building and maintaining backend services, RESTful APIs and asynchronous systems.
• Operationally Mature: Experienced supporting live services, resolving production issues and working in regulated or risk-aware environments.
• Growth and Team Focused: Pragmatic, collaborative, open to feedback and quick to learn, with a calm, methodical approach under pressure.

Reward & Benefits:

• Competitive Package: Fair salary benchmarked against market data, annual discretionary bonus, and 29 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Health & Wellbeing: Access to Medicash healthcare, mental health first aiders, and a suite of wellbeing resources to support you inside and outside of work.
• Work-Life Balance: 35-hour working week for full-time roles, with flexibility to help you perform at your best.
• Career Growth: Ongoing personal and professional development, we’ll support your ambitions and help you grow your potential.
• Inclusive Culture: Be part of a friendly, values-led team that genuinely cares about doing the right thing for colleagues and customers.
• Giving Back: Use two paid volunteering days each year to support causes close to your heart, through our Samuel Fox Foundation.
• Sustainability Focus: Join a business committed to reducing its carbon footprint and making a positive impact on the environment.
• Free access to Octopus Money: Financial coaching & tools that help you plan, manage, and make the most of your money.

Embracing Diversity Together: We proudly embrace and celebrate diversity as a fundamental cornerstone of our values. We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace is not just essential for our success but is also a reflection of the vibrant communities we serve. Our commitment to diversity extends beyond our internal culture to the way we approach advertising and engage with our customers. Our commitment means actively working to eliminate barriers and biases that may hinder equal opportunities within our organisation. We strive to ensure that all individuals, regardless of background, have an equal chance to thrive and advance in their careers. We acknowledge that diversity is not just a goal to be achieved but a continuous journey toward creating an environment that embraces differences and promotes equal opportunities for all. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages collaboration, creativity, and a sense of belonging for every member of our community.

About Us: We are a mutual, which means we don’t have shareholders. Instead, we’re owned by our members and use our money to do good, investing in our community, responsible causes, and – well, you. So, we’re always striving to do the right thing for our team, communities and members. Although our history spans over 170 years, our purpose of helping our members save, plan for and protect their financial futures is enduring. At The Nottingham Building Society, we are dedicated to overcoming obstacles and turning challenges into opportunities. At the heart of our mission is our unwavering commitment to breaking down barriers and building better futures by helping our customers achieve the significant milestone of owning their own home.