Senior Backend Software Engineer

Company: Data Idols
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Location: London
Job Description:

Salary

£90,000 – 100,000 per year

Requirements

  • Strong commercial experience developing backend software using Python, alongside experience with languages such as Java, Go, Kotlin, C++ or similar
  • Commercial experience with TypeScript
  • Experience building and operating applications within AWS/GCP environments
  • Strong understanding of scalable system design and distributed systems
  • Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern engineering practices
  • Experience building resilient, cloud‑native, enterprise‑grade applications

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of key platform components from design through to deployment, optimisation and ongoing support
  • Help design, build and scale the backend services that power our AI‑driven platform
  • Solve complex engineering challenges around scalability, performance and reliability
  • Design distributed systems and build resilient enterprise‑grade software
  • Collaborate closely with product and engineering leadership to shape technical roadmaps and influence architecture decisions
  • Contribute to the long‑term evolution of the platform
  • Deliver high‑quality, resilient software and improve engineering processes and tooling
  • Drive best practice across development, testing, deployment and monitoring

Technologies

  • AI
  • AWS
  • Backend
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • GCP
  • Support
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • DevOps

More

We are a technology business scaling a cutting‑edge AI‑powered platform used by enterprise clients globally. We are offering a Backend Senior Software Engineer role based in London on a hybrid basis, with a salary of £90,000 to £100,000. You will join a high‑performing engineering team with genuine influence over architecture, technology decisions, product direction and engineering standards, working in a modern cloud‑native environment during a significant growth phase.

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Posted: July 10th, 2026