Description of role:
Senior Backend Engineer (Platform & Cloud)
Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: 6–12 months
Rate: Negotiable (DOE)
We’re working with a global enterprise organisation that is expanding a centralised engineering function supporting multiple product teams across an international portfolio.
They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a core platform team responsible for building shared services, libraries, and cloud-based functionality used across a wide range of internal products.
This is a highly collaborative role, working directly with senior engineers and technical leaders across multiple time zones, helping shape the foundations of how teams build, scale, and reuse backend capability.
The Role
You’ll be part of a central engineering group building common functionality for distributed product teams. Early work will focus on:
Strong communication is essential, as you’ll be working closely with engineers and technical leads across five time zones.
Essential skills
Interested? Please apply now with your updated CV and reach out to Tom Johnson at Certain Advantage – Ref: 79927
Location: London (Hybrid)
Contract: 6–12 months
Rate: Negotiable (DOE)
We’re working with a global enterprise organisation that is expanding a centralised engineering function supporting multiple product teams across an international portfolio.
They’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join a core platform team responsible for building shared services, libraries, and cloud-based functionality used across a wide range of internal products.
This is a highly collaborative role, working directly with senior engineers and technical leaders across multiple time zones, helping shape the foundations of how teams build, scale, and reuse backend capability.
The Role
You’ll be part of a central engineering group building common functionality for distributed product teams. Early work will focus on:
- Abstracting existing codebases into shared Python libraries
- Developing data-driven solutions using PySpark and DataFrames
- Building and extending Python-based microservices using Azure Functions
- Creating scalable, reusable services that solve common challenges across teams
Strong communication is essential, as you’ll be working closely with engineers and technical leads across five time zones.
Essential skills
- Strong commercial experience with Python
- PySpark and data-frame based processing
- Solid SQL capability
- Experience working with Azure infrastructure
- Good understanding of containers, microservices, and functional design patterns
- Comfortable working in Agile environments
- Experience using Terraform for infrastructure as code
- Strong approach to unit testing (ideally with PyTest)
- FastAPI
- React / TypeScript
- HTML / CSS
- Work on a central platform team with genuine architectural influence
- Build solutions that are used across multiple products and regions
- Long-term contract with strong extension potential
- Hybrid working in London
- High-impact role in a complex, enterprise-scale environment
Interested? Please apply now with your updated CV and reach out to Tom Johnson at Certain Advantage – Ref: 79927
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