Senior Backend EngineerKey Highlights - Salary up to 75,000
- Remote
- Python, FastAPI, AWS, Microservices & Docker
- Work on cutting-edge AI/ML products
About the Client Due to continued growth, we're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join an innovative technology organisation developing AI-powered solutions. You'll be part of a collaborative engineering team, building scalable backend systems that support high-performance, cloud-native applications.
The Benefits - Salary up to 75,000
- Remote
- Flexible working environment
- Opportunity to work on AI/ML-driven products
- Modern cloud-native technology stack
- Ongoing learning and career development
- Collaborative engineering culture
The Senior Backend Engineer Role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend services and APIs that power AI-driven applications. Working closely with Product Managers, Frontend Engineers and Data Scientists, you'll develop cloud-native microservices, integrate AI/ML models into production, optimise databases, and ensure systems remain secure, reliable and performant.
You'll also contribute to architectural decisions, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, performance optimisation and the continual improvement of the platform.
Senior Backend Engineer - Essential Skills - 8+ years' commercial backend development experience
- Strong Python development experience
- FastAPI, Flask or similar frameworks
- Microservices architecture
- REST APIs, gRPC or GraphQL
- AWS cloud services
- Docker and containerisation
- PostgreSQL, MySQL and MongoDB
- Git, GitHub Actions and CI/CD pipelines
- JWT, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
- Performance optimisation and scalability
- Strong communication and problem-solving skills
Desirable Skills - MLOps or AI/ML model deployment
- Kafka or AWS SQS
- Terraform or CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda and serverless architectures
- CloudWatch or Datadog
- Agile/Scrum
- AWS certifications
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Key Skills: Python, FastAPI, Flask, AWS, Microservices, REST APIs, GraphQL, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AI/ML, MLOps, Terraform, Serverless.
