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You'll have the autonomy to make technical decisions, build robust systems and influence how the platform evolves as the business grows.\nThe Role\nYou'll be responsible for designing, developing and maintaining the backend systems that underpin the platform, with a focus on performance, scalability, security and reliability.\nKey responsibilities will include:\nDesigning and building robust, scalable backend systems and services.\n\nDeveloping and maintaining APIs and backend architecture.\n\nArchitecting infrastructure for job processing, analytics and event tracking.\n\nBuilding internal tools to support authentication, rate limiting and quota management.\n\nWorking with data pipelines and background processing systems.\n\nOptimising system performance, security and scalability.\n\nTaking ownership of the full engineering lifecycle, including code quality, testing, infrastructure and monitoring.\n\nCollaborating closely with product, design and customer experience teams to deliver new features.\n\nIdentifying opportunities to improve development processes, tooling and technical architecture.\n\nTechnical Experience\nWe're interested in engineers with experience across a combination of the following technologies:\nLanguages: Python, TypeScript\n\nCloud & Infrastructure: AWS (ECS, SQS, Parameter Store), Docker\n\nDatabases & Data: PostgreSQL, Redis\n\nCI/CD: GitHub Actions\n\nMonitoring & Observability: LogFire, Sentry\n\nAbout You\nYou'll ideally bring:\nAt least 4 years' experience building and maintaining production-grade backend systems.\n\nStrong programming skills and the ability to write clean, maintainable and well-structured code.\n\nExperience designing databases, APIs and backend infrastructure.\n\nAn understanding of high-throughput systems and background job queues.\n\nA strong sense of ownership, taking responsibility for code, infrastructure, testing and monitoring.\n\nThe confidence to make sound technical decisions in a fast-moving, early-stage environment.\n\nA genuine interest in developer experience and building tools and systems that make life easier for other engineers.\n\nDesirable Experience\nExperience in any of the following would be advantageous:\nRate limiting, authentication systems and quota management.\n\nAnalytics, attribution engineering and event tracking.\n\nData platforms such as dbt and Snowflake.\n\nBuilding WYSIWYG editors.\n\nPDF generation, rendering processes and image manipulation.\n\nServer-side rendering frameworks such as Next.js or Remix.\n\nWhy Consider This Opportunity?\nThis is a chance to join an early-stage technology business at an exciting point in its development, taking genuine ownership of its backend engineering and helping shape the technical foundations of a growing platform.\nIf you're a hands-on backend engineer who enjoys solving complex problems, building scalable systems and having a real influence on the technology you work with, we'd be interested in hearing from you.\nWe are committed to creating an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. We believe diverse teams bring different ideas and approaches, and encourage applications from anyone who feels they have the skills and experience to succeed in this role.\nWe aim to respond to all applicants as soon as possible. If you have not heard from us within two weeks of submitting your application, please assume that on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful. 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