Senior Backend Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 105,000 per year

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript, Node.js (NestJS/Express), and Angular.
• Experience building and maintaining multi-tenant SaaS applications, including tenant isolation and scalability.
• Proficiency with REST APIs, API versioning, and familiarity with OAuth2/OpenID Connect, JWTs, JWKs, and related security best practices.
• Solid experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases; familiarity with key-value/document stores.
• Practical experience with Git and GitLab CI/CD workflows, and automated build/test pipelines.
• Understanding of asynchronous patterns (queues, messaging, events).
• Experience with secrets management and key/certificate rotation.
• Strong automated testing discipline: unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Strong debugging abilities, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities, working effectively across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, high-quality software solutions that support our industry-leading platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to architectural decisions.
• Help drive innovation across the product lifecycle.

Technologies:

• API
• Angular
• Backend
• CI/CD
• Git
• GitLab
• Support
• NestJS
• OpenID
• PostgreSQL
• REST
• Security
• TypeScript
• NodeJS
• JavaScript

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We are PTC, a global team of nearly 7,000 people bringing the physical and digital worlds together through our software. We help companies improve operations, create better products, and empower people across their business. We value innovation, collaboration, and creating opportunities for our team members to explore, learn, and grow while celebrating the differences that make us who we are. This full-time Backend Software Engineer role is based in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Life at PTC is about working alongside talented industry leaders on cutting-edge technologies to transform the world around us. We also respect privacy rights and are committed to handling personal information responsibly in accordance with applicable privacy and data protection laws.

last updated 36 week of 2026