Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

Posted 2 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Working directly with product managers, frontend engineers, and collaborate with the wider business to shape technology-powered product solutions
  • Close collaboration within the backend engineering team, in code reviews, pair programming, knowledge sharing sessions and other activities to maintain best practices and consistency across the platform
  • Implementing, testing, and releasing new functionality across Elder’s backend systems with focus on the algorithms that match our customers with carers, and system integrations
  • Collaborating with frontend engineers in building new APIs and data contracts to support new functionality
  • Maintaining and evolving our cloud infrastructure (GCP, Kubernetes) to ensure high availability, security, and performance
  • Managing service observability and reliability, including logging, metrics and alerting (we use Prometheus and Grafana)
  • Handling database and service upgrades (e.g. MySQL, Kubernetes), secrets management and security best practices
  • Taking ownership of platform-level concerns such as deployment pipelines, configuration management, and cost awareness
  • Helping drive pragmatic AI utilisation across our development lifecycle

Requirements

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, comfortable working on their own and directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience working on backend platforms following modern architectures such as microservices or serverless, including deploying to production
  • Strong fundamentals of Java or Kotlin development practices
  • A good grasp of principles behind building reliable and scalable systems, including redundancy, time complexity, and memory management
  • Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, ideally with Kubernetes on GCP, and a strong understanding of platform reliability, cost awareness, and secure configuration
  • Solid understanding of security best practices across infrastructure and applications, including secrets management and credential rotation
  • Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or automation tools is a plus
  • Experience with observability tools (such as Prometheus and Grafana), service monitoring, and debugging in production environments
  • A demonstrated interest in staying up-to-date with new technology, new frameworks, new languages and other developments like AI
  • A passion for working collaboratively to solve meaningful real-world problems with technology, not just writing code!
  • Having worked with CQRS/event sourcing in the past is a bonus, but not a requirement - but you’re likely already in favour of functional style programming patterns.

Benefits

  • Competitive Salary + Company Bonus
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays + 1 extra day holiday for every year worked up to 5 years
  • Dental and health insurance
  • Hybrid office (1 day in the office, Wednesday)
  • Learning & home office budget
  • Sponsored quarterly team and company socials
  • Mentoring and coaching programmes to help you achieve your personal and career goals
  • Macbook + any particular extras you require
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • A genuine opportunity to be a very key part of a high-growth business

Job title

Senior Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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