Backend Software Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial backend software engineering experience
• Experience building scalable, high-volume distributed systems
• Strong understanding of cloud-based development environments
• Ability to work independently and contribute within a collaborative team
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working in modern product engineering organisations

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and maintain backend services and APIs
• Build insurance offer, eligibility and configuration capabilities
• Integrate with a range of internal platforms and services
• Take ownership of services throughout the full development lifecycle
• Improve system scalability, reliability and performance
• Monitor and optimise production systems through SLIs and SLOs
• Investigate and resolve issues across customer-facing and internal systems
• Collaborate with engineers, product teams and business stakeholders
• Contribute to technical design and architectural decision-making

Technologies:

• Backend
• Cloud
• DevOps

More:

We are supporting a global technology organisation that is hiring several Backend Software Engineers to join a newly formed team working on a greenfield insurance platform. This is an opportunity to work in a highly scalable, product-led engineering environment, building new services from the ground up using modern cloud technologies. The role is an initial 6-month contract with a high chance of extension, paying £523 per day inside IR35, with 37.5 hours per week and two days onsite in Manchester. Multiple positions are available.

last updated 32 week of 2026