Waracle
Senior Backend Developer
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Waracle Senior Backend Developer
Waracle are looking for a Senior Backend Developer for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious, and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.
We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design, and delivery to operations.
This is a Hybrid role, offering the flexibility to balance your professional and personal life, with 2 days a week spent connecting with colleagues in our London office or on client site.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will be a vital technical pillar within your squad. You will design and deliver end-to-end features and subsystems, ensuring our codebases remain modular, reusable, and scalable.
Beyond code, this role is deeply collaborative. If you enjoy lifting others up, mentoring junior colleagues, and bringing empathy to technical problem-solving, you will find a highly rewarding home here.
Key aspects of the role include:
- Design, build, and deliver scalable, secure backend services and applications.
- Architect end-to-end backend solutions using modern cloud-native and microservices-based approaches.
- Write clean, maintainable, and reusable code with a strong focus on quality, performance, and reliability.
- Champion engineering best practices through code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing.
- Define and promote effective testing strategies across unit, integration, and service-level testing.
- Build resilient, scalable, and production-ready systems.
- Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Communicate technical decisions and articulate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support the growth of junior engineers through coaching, feedback, and pair programming.
- Balance delivery pace with technical quality, enabling teams to make informed engineering decisions.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of engineering practices by sharing ideas, lessons learned, and emerging technologies.
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Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Waracle, we hire for potential, passion, and a collaborative mindset just as much as current experience. If you share our values and believe you can excel in this role, we strongly encourage you to apply—even if you don't tick every single box.
What you'll bring
- Strong commercial experience developing backend applications in Azure.
- Experience with Azure API Management (APIM) or similar API gateway technologies.
- A broad, T-shaped backend skillset with experience across multiple programming languages.
- Hands-on DevOps experience, including CI/CD, deployment, and cloud infrastructure.
- Strong knowledge of modern backend architectures, including microservices, and event-driven systems.
- Experience building secure, scalable, and high-performance applications.
- Understanding of secure development practices and standards such as OWASP, GDPR, and SOC 2.
- A passion for clean code, engineering best practices, and continuous improvement.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience mentoring and supporting the development of other engineers.
The Recruitment Process
The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Attraction Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period, and benefits (the important stuff!).
After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Attraction Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.
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Our Benefits
We believe in supporting our team, inside and outside of work. Here's a glimpse of what you can expect:
- Rest & Recharge: You'll receive 27 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays, totaling 35 days of holiday to unwind and pursue your passions.
- Financial Future & Security: Plan for retirement with our company-matched 5% pension contribution. For added peace of mind, we also offer a Death in Service benefit, providing 2 x your annual salary for your loved ones.
- Health & Wellness: Our Medicash Health Cash Plans help cover everyday healthcare costs, complemented by an Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support, and Group Sickness Cover for peace of mind.
- Flexible Working: We champion hybrid working, providing a home office setup budget to ensure you're comfortable and productive wherever you are.
- Learning & Development: Invest in yourself with access to Udemy Business and a dedicated learning and development budget for continuous growth.
- Lifestyle Perks: Make the most of our Cycle to Work Scheme, and enjoy exclusive gym and retail discounts.
- Family First: Our enhanced parental leave policies include support for fertility journeys, recognising diverse family needs.
- Community & Connection: We foster a vibrant culture with regular fun meet-ups and lunch on us in the office once a month. You'll also have the opportunity to make a local impact through Spirit of Waracle, our initiative for getting involved in charitable causes locally, building strong team bonds and giving back.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.
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