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Lead Backend Engineer

Hybrid in London·Added yesterday (last checked 29 Oct)

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Our summary

Salary
£650 - £750 a day
Work mode
Hybrid, London
Contract
Contract role, inside IR35
Experience
Senior level

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Strong commercial back end experience in Python, C#/.NET or a comparable language
  • Proven experience designing, building and versioning APIs (REST, and ideally gRPC or GraphQL)
  • Hands-on Kafka experience, including topic design, producers and consumers, and stream processing
  • Experience leading or mentoring engineers, or acting as a technical lead
  • Solid knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases
  • Experience with a major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

  • £650 - £750 P/D (Inside IR35)

The role

Overview
A growing, data-driven organisation is looking for a Lead Back End Developer to shape and deliver the services that sit at the heart of its platform.

What you'll do

  • Lead the design and build of scalable, secure back end services and APIs
  • Own the architecture of event-driven pipelines built on Kafka
  • Set engineering standards across code quality, testing, CI/CD and documentation
  • Mentor developers, run code reviews and guide technical decisions
  • Work with product and data teams to turn requirements into reliable services
  • Make sure systems meet security and data protection expectations
  • Monitor, troubleshoot and improve performance and reliability in production

How you'll work

  • Hybrid role - 2 days P/W onsite

Lead Back End Developer - Contract role - London

You'll lead a team of engineers, own technical direction and stay hands-on in the code. The stack is flexible (Python, C# and others), so strong engineering fundamentals matter more than any one language.

Details

  • Initial 6 Month contract

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