Senior Backend Engineer

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, high-performance backend services and APIs
• Take ownership of backend components throughout the full software development lifecycle, from technical design to deployment and production support
• Design and implement robust, maintainable and testable solutions aligned with business and technical requirements
• Lead the development of complex features and provide technical guidance to less experienced developers
• Define and promote best practices in software architecture, coding standards, testing and code quality
• Analyse and optimise application performance, scalability, reliability, and resource utilisation
• Design and manage efficient database solutions, including data models, queries, migrations and performance optimisation
• Integrate internal and third-party services using REST APIs, messaging systems, and other integration patterns
• Contribute to architectural decisions and proactively identify technical risks, bottlenecks and opportunities for improvement
• Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure high engineering standards across the team
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Frontend Developers and other stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues, ensuring system stability and minimising downtime
• Contribute to CI/CD, monitoring, logging, observability, and overall engineering automation
• Participate in technical planning, estimate, and refinement of development tasks
• Continuously evaluate new technologies and approaches to improve the quality, scalability and maintainability of the platform