A large financial services organisation is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a high-performing digital engineering function. This role sits within a customer-facing mobile product environment, delivering secure, scalable solutions at scale.

Working across two product teams alongside a dedicated DevOps function, you will play a key role in shaping backend architecture, driving engineering standards, and ensuring scalability/security.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable backend microservices (Node.js or JVM-based frameworks)
• Contribute to backend architecture decisions aligned to clean architecture principles
• Support and integrate with a React Native mobile application environment
• Drive performance, resilience and security best practices across backend services
• Implement and champion strong testing strategies (including TDD) and high-quality code reviews
• Collaborate closely with DevOps on CI/CD pipelines, Docker and AWS-based deployments
• Mentor engineers and contribute to continuous improvement across engineering practices
• Manage technical debt and ensure engineering decisions align with business and customer outcomes

Key Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with JavaScript/TypeScript
• React Mandatory
• Backend expertise in Node.js or Java (JVM-based frameworks)
• Proven experience designing and building REST-based microservices architectures
• Strong understanding of scalability, security and system design in production environments
• Experience working on mobile-backed systems, ideally with exposure to React Native projects
• Familiarity with AWS, Docker and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong engineering fundamentals and a passion for clean, maintainable architecture
• Exposure to or interest in applying AI within backend systems is highly advantageous

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