Staff Backend Engineer (C++/Java/Go/Python/Typescript)

Company: Understanding Recruitment

Location: Charing Cross

Posted: May 8th, 2026

Job Description


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Fastest Growing Start-up in the UK | Defence

We are partnered with one of the UK's fastest-growing start-ups. They are a very technically focused group building cutting-edge decision-making technology.

The company's founding team has a real pedigree, with backgrounds from the UK Special Forces, Palantir and Helsing. They've been building for just over two years, and already have a lot of customers in the UK.

On-site | London

Up to 150,000 + Equity

Senior/Principal Software Engineers:

They're looking to add Senior/Principal Engineers to their team. The team are open to hiring pure backend engineers or full-stack engineers. Their technical stack is Rust, Typescript and React on the frontend. They do not require any experience in any of these technologies; the team hire on pure technical acumen rather than years of experience with one language. xwzovoh

Bonus point if you have built:

No sponsorship is available at this time.

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