Backend Engineer

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 4,100 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Overview:

Canopycast is hiring for the Backend Engineer position to build and run the APIs and services behind our web and mobile apps. This position is on site in London.

In this role you will:

• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.
• Design and build REST and gRPC APIs in Go, Java or Python.
• Containerize services with Docker and deploy them to Kubernetes or ECS.
• Add caching with Redis where it actually helps, and remove it where it doesn't.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Write integration and contract tests so API changes don't break consumers.

Minimum qualifications:

• 3+ years of backend development experience in a production environment.
• Understanding of concurrency, transactions, idempotency and retries.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.

Preferred qualifications:

• Background with high-volume payment or ledger systems.
• Terraform or Pulumi.
• NoSQL stores such as MongoDB, Cassandra or DynamoDB.
• Prior work breaking up a monolith.

Salary: £475 - £600 a day

Benefits:

• Free on-site parking.
• Free parking.

Successful applicants will be contacted within a week of the closing date.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canopycast.