# Senior Backend Engineer

Your role As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will own substantial backend systems and platform capabilities from design through to reliable production operation. You will work closely with product engineers, AI engineers, domain experts and engineering leadership to turn complex financial and regulatory problems into durable systems. You will not wait for every problem to arrive as a complete technical specification. You will be expected to understand the business objective, identify the important constraints and make sound engineering trade-offs. Your work will help determine whether Saturn becomes a collection of useful applications or a coherent platform capable of supporting increasingly important financial workflows. What we’re looking for 4+ years building and shipping customer-facing software in production Experience owning a substantial product area from an ambiguous problem through to adoption and iteration Strong frontend engineering depth in TypeScript and modern web frameworks Strong full-stack capability, with the judgement to work across the system where needed Experience contributing to frontend architecture and shared engineering foundations A record of making produc

- **Id**: 1178717
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/saturn-senior-backend-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-24T12:26:24Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T09:25:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 51
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5139
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Dental insurance, Equity, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Software & Embedded Finance, Financial AI

## Company

- **Id**: 5639
- **Name**: Saturn
- **Domain**: saturnos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saturn>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Work at a Startup

## Salary

- **Min**: 90000
- **Max**: 150000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 198097

## Technologies

- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 51

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-24T12:26:24Z

## Visa

- Country: GB; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker); Route: Skilled Worker

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 51
- **Expected fill days**: 223
- **Reasons**: conf:5, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T07:52:55Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 198097
- **Is top pay**: yes

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