Senior Back End Engineer

Project overview

Senior Back End Engineer

£90 per hour (40 hours per week) - Inside IR35

Remote - Occasional travel to Manchester

6-month rolling contract

Digital Skills are looking for an experienced Senior Back End Engineer to join an established technology environment, working on scalable services and complex distributed systems.

This is a hands-on engineering role suited to someone who can quickly understand an existing codebase, make pragmatic technical decisions and deliver production-ready solutions with limited supervision. You will also contribute to architecture, engineering standards and the development of other engineers.

Key responsibilities

Essential experience

You should be comfortable working in a fast-moving Agile environment and using modern AI-assisted engineering tools as part of your development workflow. If this is the role for you, please do apply.

• Design and develop scalable Back End services and APIs
• Lead the delivery of medium to large technical initiatives
• Build resilient, observable and fault-tolerant systems
• Produce clean, maintainable and well-tested Java code
• Review technical designs and contribute to architectural decisions
• Investigate complex production issues and complete root-cause analysis
• Improve platform performance, stability and scalability
• Support code reviews and mentor other engineers
• Contribute to CI/CD, deployment automation and operational tooling
• Collaborate with product, Front End and infrastructure teams
• Strong commercial Back End engineering experience
• Advanced Java and Spring Boot skills
• Proven experience designing and building REST APIs
• Strong knowledge of microservices and distributed architectures
• Kubernetes and containerised application experience
• Kafka or comparable messaging technology
• Relational databases and data modelling
• CI/CD pipelines and production deployments
• Monitoring, logging, alerting and observability
• Unit, integration and end-to-end testing
• Strong production debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Ability to lead technical delivery independently
• Confident communication, code review and mentoring capability

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Duration: 6 months rolling
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Manchester, Remote, UK, GB
• Rate: 85-90 EUR/h
• Languages: English