Backend Software Engineer

ackend Engineer TypeScript GCP Remote (UK)

Salary: DOE

Location:Remote (UK) Monthly team meet-ups Optional London co-working space

Were partnering with an innovative well-established insurance technology company thats transforming the auto insurance industry. By combining telematics real-world driving behaviour and proprietary machine learning models theyve built a smarter underwriting platform that delivers lower costs greater accuracy and industry-leading loss ratios.

As the business continues to grow theyre looking for a talentedBackend Engineerto help build the next generation of their platform.

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to work on modern cloud-native systemsnot legacy applications.

Youll play a key role in designing building and maintaining the scalable APIs backend services and distributed systems that power the companys core insurance platform mobile applications and machine learning pipelines.

Youll join a collaborative engineering team that values clean code thoughtful architecture and solving meaningful customer problems while having genuine influence over the technical direction of the platform.

What Youll Be Doing

• Design build and maintain scalable backend services usingandTypeScript
• Develop APIs and services supporting the insurance platform mobile applications and third-party integrations
• Contribute to system architecture and help shape the long-term engineering strategy
• Work closely with Product Design and Engineering teams to deliver high-quality features
• Take ownership of the services you build ensuring reliability scalability and observability
• Participate in on-call support and continuously improve system performance

Tech Stack

Youll be working with a modern technology stack including:

• & TypeScript
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• PostgreSQL Datastore & Redis
• GraphQL
• React & React Native
• Event-driven architecture using Pub/Sub
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Hexagonal Architecture
• DataDog (APM tracing & monitoring)
• Terraform
• CircleCI
• Monorepo architecture

About You

Were looking for an engineer who enjoys building reliable scalable backend systems and takes pride in writing clean maintainable code.

Youll ideally have:

• Commercial experience developing backend applications with
• Strong JavaScript and/or TypeScript experience
• A solid understanding of software architecture and distributed systems
• Experience designing and building production-grade APIs
• Strong problem-solving skills and excellent computer science fundamentals
• The ability to communicate technical concepts clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working within Agile environments

Nice to Have

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous but is by no means essential:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• GraphQL
• Event-driven architectures
• Terraform
• DataDog
• Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
• Hexagonal Architecture
• Start-up or scale-up engineering environments

Whats on Offer

• Salary of DOE
• Fully remote within the UK
• Monthly in-person engineering meet-ups
• Optional London co-working space if you enjoy office collaboration
• Modern tech stack with greenfield development
• High levels of ownership and technical autonomy
• The opportunity to help shape a rapidly growing engineering platform

If youre passionate about Back-end Engineering and want to build scalable software that makes a real impact wed love to hear from you.

Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation