Senior Backend Engineer (Product Platforms)

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• Significant commercial experience as a Backend Engineer, including ownership of production systems in a commercial environment.
• Strong TypeScript or Python development experience.
• Experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and API design.
• Experience working with relational databases and performance optimisation.
• Experience working within cloud environments, ideally Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving capabilities.
• Experience supporting production services and operational environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to deliver business-critical software.
• E-commerce experience is nice to have.
• Logistics or fulfilment systems experience is nice to have.
• Payment or commission platform experience is nice to have.
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience is nice to have.
• Google Cloud Platform experience is nice to have.
• Next.js or tRPC familiarity is nice to have.
• FastAPI experience is nice to have.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain scalable backend services and APIs.
• Own critical production systems and ensure reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Take ownership of existing platforms and services, gaining a deep understanding of how they operate and identifying opportunities to improve reliability, performance and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical and operational issues.
• Participate in incident response and post-incident learning activities.
• Support architectural decisions that improve scalability and resilience.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Operational stakeholders.
• Contribute to engineering standards, code review practices, release discipline and software delivery best practice.
• Mentor less experienced engineers and support team development.
• Improve observability, monitoring and operational visibility.
• Identify and address technical debt and system risks.
• Support integrations with third-party services, logistics partners and business systems.
• Contribute to continuous improvement across engineering processes.

Technologies:

• API
• Backend
• Cloud
• FastAPI
• Support
• LESS
• Python
• Terraform
• TypeScript
• DevOps

More:

We are DFYNE, one of the UKs fastest-growing companies, and our Senior Backend Engineer role sits within our engineering team reporting directly to the Head of Development. We offer a hands-on role where you will help scale and strengthen the technology that powers our business, work closely with Product, Engineering and Operations, and have genuine ownership from day one. You will be part of a high challenge; high reward culture, building technology that directly impacts our business performance. The role is permanent, full time, based in Uddingston, Scotland, United Kingdom, within our Digital team. Salary starts from £65K per year, and a cover letter and completed questionnaire are required for a successful application.

last updated 37 week of 2026