At a Glance
- Tasks: Take ownership of backend architecture, API design, and platform reliability using Node.js and TypeScript.
- Company: An established SaaS company in the creative technology space, offering a remote-first work environment.
- Benefits: Competitive salary up to £60,000, private healthcare, and 30 days annual leave increasing with service.
- Other info: Role involves mentoring engineers and shaping engineering standards in a small product team.
- Why this job: Significant ownership over backend architecture and influence on technical direction within a collaborative team.
- Qualifications: 5+ years in Backend or Full Stack Development with deep expertise in Node.js and AWS cloud services.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
My client, an established SaaS company operating in the creative technology space, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing remote-first engineering team. This is a newly created position offering significant ownership across backend architecture, infrastructure, platform reliability, and security.
- Competitive salary up to £60,000
- Fully remote working (Northern Ireland based)
- Private healthcare including dental & optical
- 30 days annual leave, increasing with service
- Additional Christmas shutdown leave
- Annual training and development budget
- Company pension scheme
- Strong technical ownership and influence
You will join a small, highly collaborative product team responsible for building and scaling a cloud-based platform used by creative and marketing teams to manage digital assets and content. This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact on technical direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform strategy.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will take ownership of backend architecture, API design, infrastructure, and platform reliability. You will work closely with developers across the business to improve scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence while helping to shape future engineering decisions. The role will involve working with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS cloud services while leading improvements across DevOps, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and software quality practices. You will also provide technical mentorship and help establish best-in-class engineering standards across the team.
The Person
- 5+ years' experience in Backend or Full Stack Software Development with a strong backend focus
- Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript
- Proven experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure including services such as Lambda, RDS, S3, and IAM
- Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorisation, and secure API design
- Experience designing, optimising, and scaling relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and production environments
- Comfortable leading technical discussions and influencing architectural decisions
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- A collaborative approach with experience mentoring and supporting other engineers
Desirable Experience
- Experience with real-time systems, collaborative applications, or distributed data models
- Exposure to serverless and event-driven architectures
- Experience working with large-scale file storage, media processing, or digital asset platforms
- Previous experience working within startups, scale-ups, or small product-focused teams
- Interest in platform engineering, observability, or developer tooling
For further information on this opportunity, or any other Software Engineering positions across the UK and Ireland, apply via the link or contact us for a confidential discussion. Successful applicants may be required to complete relevant pre-employment screening checks in line with company policy.
Backend Software Engineer - SaaS - Remote (Northern Ireland) in Belfast employer: VANRATH
This SaaS company is based in Northern Ireland and focuses on creative technology solutions. They offer a fully remote working model, private healthcare, and an annual training budget, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. The team is small and highly collaborative, allowing for significant influence on technical decisions.
