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20 Hours Ago
London, UK
94 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
94 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Fintech • Real Estate • Financial Services
Join a UK tech scaleup as a Backend Engineer working on financial infrastructure and company management using Golang. Collaborate with product and design teams to create products that delight users. Opportunity to develop technical rigour and challenger mindset.
20 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
Hybrid
1,200 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
1,200 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Information Technology • Productivity • Software • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
Senior Backend Software Engineer working on Java and Kotlin backend applications, contributing to developing new features, maintaining codebase, and exploring new technologies in an agile environment.
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401-K
Company Outings
Customized Development Tracks
+41 More
3 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
1,004 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
1,004 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
HR Tech
Join Remote as a Staff Backend Engineer and be part of a global team focused on solving remote organizations' employment challenges. Work on building tools, APIs, and integrations using Elixir, Postgres, React, and Nextjs. Enjoy competitive salary, stock options, unlimited PTO, and a supportive work environment.
2 Days Ago
London, UK
Hybrid
87 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
87 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Engineering Lead - Backend at Nomo Fintech will be responsible for guiding and supporting a team, collaborating with stakeholders, managing product and platform initiatives, and ensuring high standards of quality in solutions. This role requires technical expertise, leadership skills, and a focus on delivering high business impact.
7 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
700 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
700 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Cloud • Mobile • Sales • Software
Enhance customer experience by implementing new features and improving existing ones. Work closely with other teams to deliver a high-quality product. Write clean scalable code, participate in code reviews, troubleshoot issues, build tooling for development process, and maintain unit tests. Stay up-to-date with development trends and suggest improvements.
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401-K
401-K Matching
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+50 More
4 Days Ago
London, UK
Hybrid
18,000 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
18,000 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Cloud • Fintech • Machine Learning • Analytics • Financial Services
As a Principal Full Stack Application Engineer at Discover, you will build and release reliable software systems at scale, develop and maintain full stack solutions, strategize the future state of the technical ecosystem, and solve complex problems. You will also actively manage and escalate risk and customer-impacting issues within the role to management.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+59 More
8 Days Ago
London, UK
Hybrid
5,000 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
5,000 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Cloud • Machine Learning • Mobile • Software • Virtual Reality • App development
Seeking a Backend Engineer to design, implement, and operate critical and scalable services at Snap Inc. Responsibilities include collaborating with teams to deliver innovative products, ensuring high quality, and advocating for best practices in availability, scalability, and cost management. Required qualifications include a technical degree or equivalent experience and 7+ years of software development experience. Preferred qualifications include experience in Java, Typescript, Javascript, C++, Python, PostgreSQL, cloud computing, and storage systems.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+55 More
2 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
147 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
147 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Blockchain
Backend Engineer at Trust Wallet responsible for feature development and optimization, infrastructure, maintainability, and team building. Requires 3+ years of software engineering experience, extensive knowledge of Go, and experience with microservice-based architectures and cloud environments.
18 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
700 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
700 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Cloud • Mobile • Sales • Software
As a Senior BE & AI Engineer at Aircall, you will be responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and operating business-critical AI features that add customer value on top of Voice. Your responsibilities include participating in requirements analysis, proposing innovative solutions based on AI trends, writing clean scalable code, mentoring team members, and more.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Child Care Benefits
+50 More
4 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
1,213 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
1,213 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Information Technology • Mobile • Consulting
Backend Staff/Lead Engineer role at Yassir, a leading super app in the Maghreb region offering on-demand services and expanding into financial services. Responsible for driving technical standards, leading backend engineers, conducting technical interviews, and contributing to scaling up backend engineers.
22 Hours Ago
London, UK
4,000 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
4,000 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Information Technology • Software • Financial Services • Big Data Analytics
Develop user interface solutions for Citadel's investment professionals, visualize financial data, collaborate with top industry professionals, challenge the status quo, and drive platform evolution.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+44 More
9 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
700 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
700 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Cloud • Mobile • Sales • Software
Senior Backend Engineer responsible for designing, developing, deploying, and operating business-critical features using Ruby and Typescript. Mentoring junior team members and contributing to product and platform optimization. Must have 5+ years of experience in back-end development with a focus on security, scalability, and performance, as well as experience with AWS in a production environment.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Child Care Benefits
+50 More
9 Days Ago
London, UK
912 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
912 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Consumer Web • eCommerce • Software
Join Trustpilot as a Fullstack Software Engineer II in the Acquisition Team. Work on transforming Trustpilot's B2B website, participate in full-stack web development, develop RESTful APIs, and work with component-based front-end development. Enjoy flexible working options, competitive compensation, learning opportunities, and various benefits.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Commuter Benefits
+41 More
4 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
1,213 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
1,213 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Information Technology • Mobile • Consulting
As a Backend Staff Engineer at Yassir, you will drive technical standards, provide leadership, mentor junior developers, and contribute to scaling up Backend engineers. Responsibilities include designing, building, and maintaining features, managing dependencies, conducting design and code reviews, and participating in architecture discussions. The role also involves conducting technical interviews and improving engineering standards and processes. Must have at least 10 years of experience in backend engineering with NodeJS, strong programming fundamentals, excellent communication skills, and experience with Git and testable code.
20 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
220 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
220 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Machine Learning • Natural Language Processing • Conversational AI
Design, develop, and deploy scalable backend services and APIs for global enterprises using .NET, C#, and MongoDB. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration and troubleshoot production issues efficiently. Strong problem-solving skills and experience with writing clean, maintainable code.
Top Benefits:
401-K
Dental Insurance
Flexible Work Schedule
+6 More
6 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
7+ Years of Experience
7+ Years of Experience
Cloud • HR Tech • Professional Services • Software
Join Upwork as a Staff Backend Engineer to collaborate with engineering teams and product managers, design and optimize software systems, lead technical strategies, mentor engineers, and enhance system performance and scalability. This is a contract position with potential for renewal based on project needs and accomplishments towards deliverables.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+45 More
21 Days Ago
London, UK
Hybrid
20,000 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
20,000 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Information Technology • Security • Software • Cybersecurity • Big Data Analytics
Analyzes, develops, designs, and maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain throughput and program consistency. Develops, validates, and tests structures and user documentation.
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401-K
401-K Matching
Adoption Assistance
+43 More
4 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
6,766 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
6,766 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Software
The Technical Lead, Backend role at HubSpot involves designing and solving problems in large, distributed systems. This role focuses on hands-on coding and developing software in Java, collaborating with product management and frontend developers, leading a small team of engineers, and setting the direction for backend development at HubSpot.
3 Days Ago
London, UK
206 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
206 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Fintech • Software • Financial Services
Plum is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to design scalable systems using Python and related technologies. The role involves identifying system issues, contributing to product development, and working in a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate should have at least 6 years of experience and be proficient in software engineering best practices.
6 Days Ago
London, UK
1,710 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
1,710 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Music • Software
Seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead the development and optimization of streaming technologies at SoundCloud, focusing on audio/video codecs, streaming protocols, and container technologies. Must have 10+ years of experience in software development, proficiency in Go, expertise in cloud platforms, and strong problem-solving skills.
5 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
900 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
900 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Software
Principal Backend Engineer role at Grafana focusing on driving architectural changes for the platform, working with a distributed systems background, contributing to the open-source culture, designing and maintaining critical systems, mentoring team members, and continuous skill development.
6 Days Ago
London, UK
Hybrid
37 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
37 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Computer Vision • Machine Learning • Software
Seeking an experienced Backend Software Engineer to join a high-performing team at Encord. You will have end-to-end ownership of projects, autonomy to make decisions, and collaborate with a lean and high-trust team. Responsible for developing and maintaining systems, driving impact for customers, and tackling complex domains with simple solutions.
5 Days Ago
London, UK
Remote
3,300 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
3,300 Employees
5-7 Years of Experience
Information Technology • Security • Cybersecurity
Cloudflare is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help build and enhance Cloudflare's serverless database, D1. The role involves defining and building the future of D1 to enable developers to build full stack applications. The ideal candidate should have at least 5 years of experience building full-stack web applications, knowledge of Javascript and Typescript, proficiency in one or more modern programming languages, and experience operating high-volume SaaS applications.
Top Benefits:
401-K
Child Care Benefits
Commuter Benefits
+45 More
4 Days Ago
London, UK
41 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
41 Employees
3-5 Years of Experience
Artificial Intelligence • Software
Perplexity is seeking a Sr. Backend Software Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and scaling of backend systems using Python, Postgresql, DynamoDB, Redis, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include database optimization, building interfaces, and scaling web server backends. Requires 4+ years of engineering experience.
7 Days Ago
London, UK
700 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
700 Employees
7+ Years of Experience
Natural Language Processing • Software
Algolia is looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Dashboard Platform team. You will work on core features of the Algolia Dashboard, build new services, and focus on infrastructure automation. The role involves contributing to operation and deployment of all Dashboard features, delivering world-class developer experiences, and sharing knowledge on software engineering best practices.
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+15 More
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