Senior Software Engineer – Backend / Distributed Systems

A fast-growing technology company delivering software for critical infrastructure and energy optimisation is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help build and evolve a highly scalable, real-time platform operating in production environments.
This role suits engineers who think beyond individual services and understand how distributed systems behave at scale.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and building scalable backend services
  • Working on distributed, event-driven architectures
  • Developing reliable production systems handling real-time data flows
  • Improving system resilience, observability, and recovery mechanisms
  • Collaborating across engineering and data teams to deliver cohesive solutions
  • Contributing to architecture and technical direction

What We’re Looking For

You are comfortable working on complex production systems and naturally think about how changes impact entire systems.

Experience in:

• Distributed backend systems
  • Real-time or event-driven platforms
  • Infrastructure, IoT, industrial or energy platforms
  • Financially or operationally critical systems
  • High-availability production environments

You’ll also bring:

• Strong backend engineering and system design capability
  • Experience supporting production systems
  • Ownership mindset and sound engineering judgement
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills

Tech Stack

• Go, Python, or Rust
  • AWS or similar cloud platforms
  • Kafka or event streaming technologies
  • Time-series or high-volume data systems
  • Monitoring and observability tooling
  • Domain-driven design or complex domain modelling

Why Consider This Role?

• Work on software with real operational impact
  • High-trust, high-autonomy engineering culture
  • Remote-friendly working arrangements
  • Equity participation opportunities
  • Additional leave benefits
  • Opportunity to influence a rapidly growing platform

If you enjoy building systems that must perform reliably in real-world conditions and want to work with a strong engineering team tackling complex challenges, we encourage you to apply.