Backend Engineer
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This role is for a Backend Engineer with a contract length of "unknown," offering a pay rate of "unknown." Required skills include Java/Scala, distributed systems, RESTful applications, and experience with databases. A degree in Computer Science and 6-8+ years of experience are essential.
🌎 - Country
United Kingdom
💱 - Currency
£ GBP
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💰 - Day rate
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🗓️ - Date discovered
August 12, 2025
🕒 - Project duration
Unknown
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🏝️ - Location type
Unknown
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📄 - Contract type
Unknown
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🔒 - Security clearance
Unknown
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📍 - Location detailed
England, United Kingdom
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🧠 - Skills detailed
#Databases #Deployment #Oracle #GraphQL #React #Kafka (Apache Kafka) #Scala #JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) #NoSQL #Java #JavaScript #IP (Internet Protocol) #Base #REST (Representational State Transfer) #Programming #Web Services #Computer Science
Role description
What you will accomplish:
• Responsible for a functional domain to design cross-data-center distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available, and performant web services and web applications by using software architecture design, OOA/D skills, in addition to exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment, and support
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
• Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate
What you will bring:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science with 6-8+ years of experience
• Experience in developing large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with programming languages such as Java and/or Scala, relational databases (e.g., Oracle), and/or NoSQL technologies and event platforms like Kafka.
• Proven ability to build RESTful applications.
• Solid base in data structures, algorithms, and a strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming; Design Patterns, OOA/D, Data Structures, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols
• Exposure to Node JS, JavaScript, React and experience in building GraphQL APIs is desirable.
What you will accomplish:
• Responsible for a functional domain to design cross-data-center distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available, and performant web services and web applications by using software architecture design, OOA/D skills, in addition to exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills
• Own major projects and features from design phase to coding, testing, deployment, and support
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation, and rollout system changes.
• Identify project technical risks and make recommendations to mitigate
What you will bring:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science with 6-8+ years of experience
• Experience in developing large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong experience with programming languages such as Java and/or Scala, relational databases (e.g., Oracle), and/or NoSQL technologies and event platforms like Kafka.
• Proven ability to build RESTful applications.
• Solid base in data structures, algorithms, and a strong understanding of multithreading, synchronization, concurrent programming; Design Patterns, OOA/D, Data Structures, REST, JSON, and Internet Protocols
• Exposure to Node JS, JavaScript, React and experience in building GraphQL APIs is desirable.
