Senior Backend Engineer

This is a chance to join a product-led, profitable tech business where backend engineering genuinely matters.

The platform processes billions of requests annually, serves both consumers and enterprise customers, and ships changes multiple times a week. You’ll be working on systems where performance, reliability and clean design aren’t “nice to haves” – they’re non-negotiable.

If you enjoy shipping, iterating fast, and seeing real users feel the impact of your work, this one’s for you.

• Established, highly successful tech product with global reach

• Profitable and well-funded, with strong, sustainable growth

• Remote-first across Europe with regular in-person meetups

• Engineering-driven culture with high standards and high trust

• Real customers, real scale, real problems

This is not an early experiment. It’s a mature product that still moves quickly.

They’re looking for a senior backend engineer who takes ownership and enjoys operating at scale.

You’ll likely recognise yourself in most of the following:

• 5+ years commercial experience with Django & Django REST Framework

• Strong relational database experience (Postgres or MySQL) at scale

• Comfortable working with large datasets (100GB+)

• Confident designing APIs in close collaboration with frontend teams

• Pragmatic mindset – shipping value beats theoretical perfection

• Happy making product and technical decisions, not waiting for permission

You don’t need to tick every box perfectly. Strong fundamentals and good judgement matter most.

You’ll own backend features end to end, including:

• Designing and building new backend functionality

• Improving performance, latency, and scalability of existing endpoints

• Working closely with product and frontend teams on API design

• Monitoring production systems and iterating based on real usage

• Shipping changes frequently and safely

This is a role with real responsibility – from architecture and implementation through to observing how things behave in production.

This team values:

• Fast feedback loops and frequent releases

• Data-driven decision making

• Clean, pragmatic backend design

• Ownership over hand-offs

• Trust and autonomy over micromanagement

You’ll be expected to think, decide, and execute like a senior engineer – and you’ll be supported to do exactly that