Senior Backend Software Engineer I

November 3, 2026

Senior

London, United Kingdom

Description

Senior backend engineering role focused on pricing infrastructure and tooling across personal and business products. The engineer designs features end-to-end across pricing services, contributes to architectural decisions and code reviews, and drives reliability and scalability initiatives. The role includes end-to-end ownership of the technical roadmap, incident resolution leadership, and mentoring other engineers in a complex production domain.

Responsibilities

Design and build features end-to-end across pricing services
Contribute to architectural decisions and code reviews to raise quality, reliability and observability
Drive initiatives to improve reliability and scalability of services
Partner with global and regional product teams to enable new product features and experiments
Ensure pricing infrastructure remains scalable, reliable and accurate
Help shape the team's technical direction

Requirements

Strong background in software engineering with contributions to large impactful projects in complex production domains
Experience with Java or similar OOP language
Expert technical discipline with ability to design for long-term iteration and scale
Ownership of availability, reliability and security of systems following engineering best practises
Sensible trade-offs between speed, scalability and risk with a predictable delivery cadence
End-to-end ownership of technical roadmap and deliverables with long-term ownership mindset
Ability to explain why something is being built, the customer problem it solves and expected impact
Leading role in incident resolution and post-incident review for minor and major incidents
Experience engaging with product, compliance and stakeholder teams to shape requirements and priorities
Clear communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to give and receive feedback and contribute to a supportive environment
Mentoring and coaching other engineers and owning onboarding of new joiners
Promoting a culture of collaboration that minimises duplicate or wasted work
Experience in payments, fintech or another related domain
Prior experience working on a team with a global distributed setup
Experience with systems involving compliance, audit or regulatory requirements such as SOX, fee disclosure and tax
Familiarity with configuration-heavy domains where business logic is encoded in data as well as code