Software Engineer-II Backend
Build and operate scalable backend services, APIs, and microservices for identity verification and fraud prevention products. The role requires backend programming experience, distributed-systems knowledge, database expertise, and familiarity with cloud-native technologies.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Design, build, test, and operate backend services, APIs, and microservices.
- Develop reliable, secure, and maintainable production software.
- Work on distributed systems, asynchronous workflows, messaging, and event-driven architectures.
- Contribute to technical design and make thoughtful engineering trade-offs.
- Troubleshoot production issues and improve system reliability and observability.
- Participate in code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with globally distributed, cross-functional teams to solve customer and business problems.
Requirements
- Practical software engineering experience building backend applications or services.
- Strong programming skills in Go, Java, Python, or a comparable backend language.
- Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, APIs, microservices, and distributed systems fundamentals.
- Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
- Understanding of asynchronous processing, messaging, retries, fault tolerance, and service-to-service communication.
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies such as AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, or equivalent technologies.
- Understanding of source control, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern software development practices.
- Ability to troubleshoot technical problems methodically and take ownership of solutions through production.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
Compensation and Benefits
- Permanent right to work in the UK is required; visa sponsorship is not provided.
Skills
Go, Java, Python, SQL, NoSQL, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices, Distributed Systems, CI/CD, Automated Testing, API Design, Event-Driven Architecture
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