Backend Platform Engineer

Backend Platform Engineer
Remote, UK
6 Month Contract

An exciting opportunity for a Backend Platform Engineer with a strong software engineering background to join a prestigious tech client on a contract basis. This is a well-regarded engineering environment where contractors speak highly of the fast-paced, collaborative culture, and the real autonomy they're given to make an impact.

As a Backend Platform Engineer, you'll focus on building tools, services, and systems that make life easier for developers and accelerate delivery across the business. From improving CI/CD pipelines and service deployment to shaping internal platforms and runtime environments, your work will help enable fast, secure, and reliable software delivery at scale.

You'll work closely with product teams and engineers across the stack to enhance developer experience, troubleshoot complex systems, and improve observability. This isn't a maintenance role - you'll be building, iterating, and solving meaningful engineering problems, with a strong focus on clean code, robust security practices, and modern cloud infrastructure.

Backend Platform Engineer - Key Requirements:

• Solid experience in software engineering, platform, or backend-focused roles
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python, particularly for building internal tooling and services
• Strong experience with AWS and its core services, including CloudFront and related web application tooling
• Hands-on knowledge of setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for modern web applications
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Understanding of security best practices in web infrastructure and application delivery
• Exposure to observability tooling and techniques (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)
• Confident in debugging and resolving issues in complex distributed or web-based
• Systems
• A product mindset and collaborative approach to improving how teams build and run software
• Bonus points for experience with Kafka, gRPC, or open-source contributions

If you're a Backend Platform Engineer who enjoys solving real engineering problems and building tools that make other developers more effective - apply now. The client is ready to move quickly.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.