Senior Backend Engineer

About the role

Join a lean, high‑calibre engineering team building distributed systems at significant scale. Design resilient backend services, drive architectural decisions, and solve complex performance challenges for a high‑growth financial services platform.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and build large‑scale distributed systems capable of supporting millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.
• Design event‑driven architectures, partitioning strategies, and highly scalable data platforms with a focus on reliability and fault tolerance.
• Lead performance optimisation initiatives across application, infrastructure, storage, networking, and caching layers.
• Own systems end‑to‑end, from architecture and development through production operations and continuous improvement.
• Evaluate and adopt emerging technologies, including AI‑driven capabilities, to solve complex engineering and business challenges.

Required profile

• Extensive backend engineering experience building highly scalable, distributed systems in production environments.
• Proven experience operating services handling 20,000‑30,000+ requests per second and large‑scale user traffic.
• Deep expertise in system design, distributed architecture, concurrency, partitioning, consistency models, and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated success solving complex scaling, latency, reliability, and availability challenges in mission‑critical platforms.
• Strong technical curiosity with the ability to rapidly learn new technologies, domains, and AI capabilities independently.