Senior Backend Engineer
My client, an established SaaS company operating in the creative technology space, is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to join their growing remote-first engineering team. This is a newly created position offering significant ownership across backend architecture, infrastructure, platform reliability, and security. * Competitive salary up to £60,000 * Fully remote working (Northern Ireland based) * Private healthcare including dental & optical * 30 days annual leave, increasing with service * Additional Christmas shutdown leave * Annual training and development budget * Company pension scheme * Strong technical ownership and influence You will join a small, highly collaborative product team responsible for building and scaling a cloud-based platform used by creative and marketing teams to manage digital assets and content. This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact on technical direction, engineering standards, and long-term platform strategy. As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will take ownership of backend architecture, API design, infrastructure, and platform reliability. You will work closely with developers across the business to improve scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence while helping to shape future engineering decisions. The role will involve working with Node.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AWS cloud services while leading improvements across DevOps, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and software quality practices. You will also provide technical mentorship and help establish best-in-class engineering standards across the team.
The Person
* 5+ years’ experience in Backend or Full Stack Software Development with a strong backend focus * Deep expertise in Node.js and TypeScript * Proven experience working with AWS cloud infrastructure including services such as Lambda, RDS, S3, and IAM * Strong understanding of application security, authentication, authorisation, and secure API design * Experience designing, optimising, and scaling relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) * Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and production environments * Comfortable leading technical discussions and influencing architectural decisions * Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders * A collaborative approach with experience mentoring and supporting other engineers
Desirable Experience
* Experience with real-time systems, collaborative applications, or distributed data models * Exposure to serverless and event-driven architectures * Experience working with large-scale file storage, media processing, or digital asset platforms * Previous experience working within startups, scale-ups, or small product-focused teams * Interest in platform engineering, observability, or developer tooling For further information on this opportunity, or any other Software Engineering positions across the UK and Ireland, apply via the link or contact us for a confidential discussion. Successful applicants may be required to complete relevant pre-employment screening checks in line with company policy.
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