# Senior Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Encord](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/encord)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, Distributed Systems, Databases, Replication, Partitioning, Queuing, Caching, Kubernetes, GCP, React, PyTorch, CUDA, Ray, Data Migration
**Posted:** 2026-08-21

> Build and own scalable backend infrastructure and distributed data systems for Encord’s Foundations team. The role requires 5+ years of backend experience, production service ownership, and strong expertise in distributed systems and high-level programming.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Take end-to-end ownership of significant projects within database and processing systems, including design, architecture, deployment, monitoring, and impact measurement.
- Build robust distributed systems and reason about failure modes and behavior under load.
- Contribute to performant protocols and APIs, including customer-facing label-format APIs.
- Tackle complex domains and large-scale data with simple, effective solutions.
- Raise engineering standards through code reviews, pairing, and mentoring.

## Requirements
- 5+ years building large-scale backend infrastructure applications.
- Deep fluency in at least one high-level programming language; Python and TypeScript are used.
- Strong grounding in distributed systems concepts, including databases, replication, partitioning, queuing, and caching.
- Experience owning production services and improving quality through code reviews, testing, rollouts, and monitoring.
- Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous problems and make sound architectural decisions.

## Nice to Have
- Experience with data migrations or re-architecture projects.

## Technology Stack
- Backend: Python
- Frontend: TypeScript, React
- Deployment: Kubernetes
- Infrastructure: Google Cloud
- Machine learning: PyTorch, CUDA, Ray

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary, commission, and meaningful equity in a high-growth startup.
- 25 days of annual leave plus UK public holidays.
- Annual learning and development budget.
- Travel opportunities for customer visits, events, and conferences across the UK and Europe.
- Company lunches twice a week.
- Monthly socials and bi-annual team offsites.

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