Digital Waffle
Backend Engineer
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A leading PropTech business is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to help shape the future of its digital platform.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you’ll lead one of the company’s product engineering squads, combining architecture, coaching and software development. You’ll work across a modern microservices platform while helping drive engineering standards, AI adoption and backend architecture as the business continues to modernise its technology estate.
Role: Senior Backend Engineer
Salary: Up to £80,000
Location: UK Fully Remote
What you’ll be doing
- Lead one of the engineering squads, providing technical direction and mentoring backend developers
- Design, build and maintain scalable backend services within a microservices architecture
- Contribute to backend architecture, engineering standards and technical strategy
- Deliver complex features through a combination of hands-on development and technical leadership
- Work closely with Product, Front End, QA and DevOps teams throughout the software delivery lifecycle
- Review code, support technical decision making and help engineers develop their skills
- Build and maintain APIs, distributed services and cloud-native applications
- Help drive adoption of AI capabilities across backend services and engineering workflows
- Support production systems, incident resolution and continuous platform improvements
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What you’ll need
- Strong commercial experience developing applications using C# and.NET
- Experience building REST APIs and microservices using.NET Core
- Strong understanding of message-based architectures and distributed systems
- Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Commercial experience building applications within Microsoft Azure
- Strong understanding of API design, backend architecture and cloud-native development
- Experience working within Agile engineering teams
- Knowledge of unit testing frameworks such as xUnit or NUnit
- Familiarity with React or React Native to support cross-functional collaboration
- Experience integrating AI or LLM capabilities into backend services using platforms such as OpenAI or Azure OpenAI
- Previous experience mentoring engineers or providing technical leadership
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence technical direction across multidisciplinary teams
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Nice to have
- Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- DevOps experience including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience leading engineering teams or technical squads
- Knowledge of Agentic AI patterns, orchestration frameworks or MCP
- Experience with Azure DevOps build and release pipelines
This role would suit a senior backend engineer or technical lead who enjoys combining hands-on engineering with mentoring, architectural decision making and building modern cloud-native platforms using the latest AI technologies
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