Salary 90,000 - 90,000 GBP per year
Requirements:
- - SC Clearance or the ability to be SC cleared.
- A Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.
- Experience in backend development with a strong focus on Python and Django.
- Proficiency with Django REST Framework for API development.
- A strong understanding of database design, optimization, and management (PostgreSQL/MySQL).
- Proficiency in AWS and Azure cloud platforms and their services.
- Experience with API versioning and documentation strategies.
- Familiarity with containerization technologies like Docker.
- Knowledge of authentication protocols and security best practices.
- Experience with Git.
Preferred:
- Experience with message queues such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Knowledge of service discovery and API gateway patterns.
- Familiarity with WebSocket services for implementing real-time features.
- Experience with data warehousing and analytics solutions.
- Understanding of backup and disaster recovery strategies.
- Experience with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
Responsibilities:
- As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will develop and maintain the backend of our generative AI system, ensuring its robustness. Your responsibilities include designing scalable systems, managing APIs, ensuring high availability, implementing security measures, optimizing databases, integrating monitoring systems, conducting code reviews, mentoring junior engineers, and collaborating with frontend engineers and stakeholders.
Technologies:
- AI
- API
- AWS
- Azure
- Backend
- Cloud
- Django
- Docker
- ELK
- Flask
- Frontend
- Git
- Grafana
- Kafka
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- Prometheus
- Python
- REST
- RabbitMQ
- Security
- microservices
More:
We are an impressive UK-based deep tech start-up located in Oxfordshire, and we are excited to bring a Senior Backend Engineer onto our enthusiastic and rapidly growing team. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity for rapid career progression and the chance to shape the direction of a fast-moving, successful early-stage business. We offer highly flexible work hours and a hybrid working model.