Senior Backend Engineer - F56475

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Dunton Essex - 4 days minimum mandatory onsite 

Rate: £67.15ph Umbrella Co Basis (Inside IR35)

Employment Type: Contract (31.12.26)

Hours: Standard 37.5 Hours Per Week 

Reference: F56475

The Senior Backend Engineer plays a pivotal role in driving the technical success in our backend teams. This position involves architecting scalable, resilient, and secure backend solutions and overseeing the technical completion of critical development tasks, often in ambiguous situations.

The Senior Backend Engineer is responsible for ensuring that backend code and architectural reviews are aligned with organisational goals, facilitating productive technical discussions, and making decisions to resolve complex backend engineering issues effectively. In this role, the Senior Backend Engineer supports the technical direction for backend development, offering guidance to team members and exemplifying technical excellence in backend practices. Collaboration with frontend, DevOps, and other engineering teams is essential to ensure technical alignment across the organisation.

The role also involves leading efforts to implement process improvements within backend development workflows, thereby enhancing productivity and output quality through innovation and collaboration. Strong expertise in backend programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Go, Node.js) is essential, alongside responsibility for creating and reviewing technical designs for complex backend systems that meet both business goals and technical feasibility. Managing relationships with key stakeholders, balancing their needs with technical constraints, and facilitating open technical communication are also crucial aspects of this role.

Skills Required:

Extensive multi-year engineering experience specialising in designing, developing, and maintaining robust backend systems and services.

• Deep expertise in version control systems (e.g., Git/GitHub) and CI/CD tools (e.g., Cloudbuild), including defining and optimising pipelines for backend deployments.
• Proven proficiency with cloud platforms, particularly GCP, including experience with infrastructure as code and cloud-native services.
• Demonstrated leadership and practical experience in architectural practices, including designing scalable, resilient, and secure backend solutions.
• Customer-focused with a strong commitment to team collaboration and driving successful outcomes.
• Strong drive for delivering high-quality, performant, and value-added results. Demonstrated commitment to quality assurance and adherence to delivery timelines.
• Ability to autonomously manage multiple complex assignments with minimal direction, providing guidance to junior team members.
• Ability to thrive and contribute effectively within a highly regulated, financial environment.
• Willingness to be flexible in terms of tasks and timings to meet project demands.
• Significant experience performing and leading development reviews, ensuring code quality, maintainability, and adherence to best practices.
• Expertise in Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) methodologies for backend services
• Strong appreciation and practical application of architectural standards and processes essential in large-scale organisations.
  
  Extensive experience or deep exposure to the following technologies:
  Java
  Spring Boot
  JUnit
  GCP (Google Cloud Platform)
  GitHub o Jetbrains products (e.g., IntelliJ IDEA)
  Fossa (or similar open-source licence compliance tools)
  SonarQube (or similar code quality analysis tools)
  Checkmarx (or similar static application security testing tools)
  Cycode (or similar software supply chain security platforms)

Skills preferred:

• Automotive finance or consumer lending background
• Experience with regulatory compliance requirements (FCA, PRA guidelines)
• Knowledge automotive manufacturer finance operations

Education Required:

STEM degree (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering) or equivalent experience

Additional Information:

• The preference on main programming language would be Java but open to the languages such as python, go, .net.

• Specific language is not essential but good experience in backend technologies is.

• Preference for being able to work in a highly regulated environment, automotive finance experience would be a bonus but not a requirement.

• Inside IR35
• Minimum 4 days a week in Dunton Office

Inside IR35