Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

CivicaLondon, United Kingdomlast year

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and maintain critical software systems, primarily focussed on .NET.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers.
Drive technical decisions and own complex system components.
Collaborate with technical product managers, designers, and other engineers to identify system requirements and develop technical solutions.
Develop API-based interfaces for our products, ensuring high quality standards and compliance with industry regulations.
Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and improve the overall quality of our engineering output.
Troubleshoot complex issues using log analysis, profiling tools, and collaborative debugging techniques.
Understand system architecture principles and ability to build accordingly to meet growing traffic demands and improve overall efficiency.
Implement continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for automated testing, build, and deployment processes.
Stay up to date with the latest features, libraries, and best practices; apply this knowledge to drive innovation within our engineering team.

Candidate Requirements

Experience of monolithic legacy applications and microservices.
Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
Knowledge of observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing) and monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana).
Understanding of cloud security best practices, including IAM policies and secret management.

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Is the Senior Software Engineer (Backend) position at Civica remote?: Yes. This role was posted on Remote Frontend Jobs, a job board that lists exclusively fully remote positions.
When was this Senior Software Engineer (Backend) job posted?: This listing was posted on July 22, 2025 and is still open for applications.
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