Company: Next Ventures
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Posted: February 28th, 2026
This role is ideal for a senior engineer with deep backend expertise and strong platform‑engineering instincts. You’ll work in a complex, multi‑team environment where the focus is on building scalable, reusable infrastructure components, integrating multiple backend systems, and delivering a robust backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) layer that supports future thematic portals. The work spans software engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes operations, and platform reliability.
Design and implement a backend‑for‑frontend (BFF) layer that unifies data and functionality from multiple backend platforms.
Develop maintainable backend services in Python, with clear API boundaries and integration contracts.
Engineer and operate Kubernetes‑based infrastructure, including cluster configuration, operators, ingress controllers, and service mesh components.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, supporting automated testing, DTAP environments, and reliable release workflows.
Manage containerisation workflows with Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring secure, reproducible deployments.
Implement identity & access management using OAuth2, OIDC, and SAML, supporting federated identity models.
Strengthen observability through Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, and related tooling, ensuring metrics, logs, and traces are integrated into the platform.
Apply security‑first engineering, including privacy‑by‑design, secure coding, and alignment with ISO27001 practices.
Contribute to open‑source components, documentation, and shared platform modules.
Collaborate across multiple engineering teams, aligning on architecture, integration patterns, and long‑term platform evolution.
Senior‑level engineer with strong backend engineering and hands‑on DevOps experience.
Deep familiarity with Kubernetes, cluster operations, operators, ingress controllers, and GitOps‑style workflows.
Comfortable integrating legacy and modern systems into a coherent platform architecture.
Experienced in platform engineering, shared services, and large‑scale system integrations.
Strong communicator who can work across teams, build consensus, and drive technical alignment.
Thrives in MVP/POC environments, where experimentation and iteration are part of the process.
Thinks in terms of reusable components, scalable infrastructure, and long‑term maintainability.