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Intermediate Backend Engineer, EMEA
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Remote, United Kingdom
Our take: The real work here is owning backend features end to end on a platform used by millions, writing maintainable secure code and sharpening your judgment through review in a remote, async, AI-assisted team.
If you like owning a backend feature from the fuzzy problem all the way to running in production, this is that job at real scale, with millions of users on the other end of your code. You will work mostly on your own clock in a remote, written-first team, but with experienced engineers treating every review as a chance to sharpen your judgment rather than gate your work. Bring curiosity about languages and about when AI helps and when it lies, and you will grow fast here.
Needs
- building backend features
- designing apis
- data models and queries
- debugging failures
- automated testing
Rewards
- impact at scale
- end-to-end ownership
- a learning loop
- remote autonomy
Demands
- being on call
- plain written communication
- self-directed solo work
- cross-team delivery
Grows
- engineering judgment
- when to trust ai
- learning new languages
- reviewing others code
Values
- maintainable code
- practical judgment
- security and rigour
- understanding the why
Drains
- on-call incident work
- test coverage upkeep
- async written overhead
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