Backend Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

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Depop

Backend Engineer – CX

Depop

Posted: 10/20/2026
AWSDockerJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPythonScala
Zapier

Senior Engineer, Database Reliability

Zapier

Posted: 10/19/2026
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsKubernetesMySQLPostgresPrometheusRedisTerraform
Adaptyv Bio

Software Engineer, Backend

Adaptyv Bio

Posted: 10/19/2026
NatWest Group

Back End Engineer

NatWest Group

Posted: 10/19/2026
AWSDockerJavaKafkaKubernetesSpringSpring BootSpringBoot
University of the Built Environment

Software Engineer, Python, AI Solutions

University of the Built Environment

Posted: 10/15/2026
AzureCloudPython
ElevenLabs

Safety Engineer – Back-End Leaning

ElevenLabs

Posted: 10/14/2026
AWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKafkaKubernetesPrometheus+3 more
ElevenLabs

Full-Stack Engineer – Backend Leaning, Platform Engineering

ElevenLabs

Posted: 10/14/2026
CloudKubernetesPython
ElevenLabs

Full-Stack Engineer – Backend Leaning, Payments Engineering

ElevenLabs

Posted: 10/14/2026
CloudKubernetesPython
Suade Labs

Mid-Level Software Engineer, Python - RegTech

Suade Labs

Posted: 10/14/2026
PythonUnix
Flosum

Senior Node.js Developer

Flosum

Posted: 10/9/2026
AWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaScriptMicroservicesNode.jsNoSQL+4 more
Kpler

Backend Engineer – Commodities

Kpler

Posted: 10/8/2026
AirflowAWSCloudElasticSearchIoTKafkaPostgresPythonSQL+2 more
Unisys

Dynamics 365 Technical Architect

Unisys

Posted: 10/8/2026
AzureCloudJavaScriptServiceNowSOAP.NET
G MASS Consulting

SQL Server Developer

G MASS Consulting

Posted: 10/8/2026
AzureCloudSQLSSIS
GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps – Container Registry

GitLab

Posted: 10/8/2026
GitLab

Senior Backend Engineer, Core DevOps

GitLab

Posted: 10/7/2026
ElevenLabs

Full-Stack Engineer – Backend Leaning

ElevenLabs

Posted: 10/7/2026
Cloud
Pleo

Senior Backend Engineer, Data Serving

Pleo

Posted: 10/6/2026
AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKotlinKubernetesPostgresSQL
Pleo

Senior Backend Engineer, Data Serving

Pleo

Posted: 10/6/2026
AWSGoogle Cloud PlatformKafkaKotlinKubernetesPostgresSQL
Avenga

Senior PHP/Drupal Engineer

Avenga

Posted: 10/5/2026
DrupalPHPSDLC
Smart Working

Senior PHP Symfony Engineer

Smart Working

Posted: 10/4/2026
Amazon RedshiftAngularAWSAzureMySQLPHPPythonSymfonyTypeScript
Depop

Backend Engineer – CX

Depop
Posted 10/20/2026full-timeLondon • United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite
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Demonstrates strong backend engineering skills with proficiency in languages such as Scala, Java, Kotlin, or Python, and experience in building secure APIs and integrating AI support systems. Capable of collaborating across teams while owning service health and utilizing data-driven metrics for continuous improvement.

Highest-signal resume keywords
Backend Engineering FundamentalsAPI Development and SecurityRelational Database ExperienceCI/CD and Production MonitoringData-Driven Decision Making

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSDockerJavaKafkaKotlinKubernetesPythonScala

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Build and evolve backend services and APIs behind disputes, returns, auto-cancellation and support automation from design through production
  • Build and test integrations enabling AI support to look up and act on orders, refunds and shipping
  • Work with CX Operations to determine when automation should act independently and when it should hand off to a person
  • Design solutions ahead of delivery for small-to-medium problems and contribute to larger team work
  • Own service health through monitoring, alerting, on-call, incident fixes and technical-debt reduction
  • Define hypotheses and success metrics, run A/B tests and ship behind feature flags
  • Collaborate with Product, Design, Data Science, CX Operations, Payments and Shipping teams
  • Participate in code reviews, retrospectives and post-incident reviews
  • Help teammates get unblocked

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Solid backend engineering fundamentals and experience delivering production services, mostly on your own
  • Proficiency in at least one backend language such as Scala, Java, Kotlin or Python, and willingness to pick up others
  • Experience building secure, reliable APIs used by external systems, including authentication, error handling and safe retries
  • Experience with relational databases and data modelling
  • Understanding of event-driven or asynchronous systems (queues, scheduled jobs, workflows)
  • Good testing habits at unit and integration level
  • Experience with CI/CD and production monitoring, and taking part in on-call
  • Comfortable setting your own direction and working things out
  • Ability to measure work using data to check what’s working and what isn’t
  • Ability to explain technical trade-offs in plain terms, share context openly and ask questions when things are unclear
  • Helpful: experience with customer support platforms such as Zendesk, including apps, APIs or workflows
  • Helpful: experience with AI support agents or chatbots and connecting them to backend systems through APIs, tools or function calling
  • Helpful: experience with payments, orders, refunds or shipping domains
  • Helpful: marketplace or e-commerce experience
  • Helpful: experience running experiments and feature flags with tools such as Optimizely
  • Helpful: Kafka or other message brokers, workflow engines, Docker and Kubernetes, AWS and infrastructure-as-code

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
  • Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
  • Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
  • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
  • Mental Health First Aiders across the business
  • 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
  • Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering
  • Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop
  • MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options, role-dependent
  • Dog-friendly offices
  • 20 weeks of paid parental leave for birth parents for full-time regular employees
  • 12 weeks of paid parental leave for non-birth parents for full-time regular employees
  • IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave
  • Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
  • Learning budget
  • Company-wide training workshops, materials and resources
  • Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
  • Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva
  • Free in-office Depop Shop and packing station with free delivery
  • Gifts and rewards for special milestones

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Hard Skills
ScalaJavaKotlinPythonAPI DevelopmentRelational DatabasesEvent-Driven SystemsUnit TestingIntegration TestingData Modelling
Soft Skills
CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunicationAdaptabilityDirection Setting
Tools & Technologies
CI/CD ToolsMonitoring ToolsZendeskOptimizelyKafkaDockerKubernetesAWSInfrastructure-as-CodeChatbot Integration
Industry Keywords
E-CommerceMarketplacePaymentsOrdersRefundsShippingCustomer Support PlatformsFeature FlagsWorkflowsAutomation