Graduate Backend Developer

We run one of the larger SaaS platforms for commercial insurance carriers, processing millions of policy transactions a year. Hawkwright employs 2,500 people across engineering hubs in London and three other locations, building ERP software for mid-market manufacturers.

Overview

Looking for a Graduate Backend Developer who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Backend role focused on API design, data modelling and making slow things fast. This role is fully remote within the UK. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

Responsibilities

• Reduce cloud costs by right-sizing services and cleaning up unused resources.
• Implement background jobs and event consumers using Kafka, SQS or RabbitMQ.
• Review code for correctness, performance and failure handling.
• Secure endpoints with OAuth 2.0, JWT validation and proper input checks.
• Instrument services with metrics, structured logs and OpenTelemetry traces.
• Handle on-call for services the team owns and lead incident follow-ups.

Minimum qualifications

• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure services.
• Clear written communication, including design docs.
• Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills.
• Proficiency in at least one of Go, Java, Kotlin, Python, C# or Node.js.
• Working knowledge of message queues or streaming platforms.
• Experience designing and versioning HTTP APIs.
• Comfort reading logs, metrics and traces to debug problems in production.

Compensation: £40,000 - £52,000 per annum

Perks and benefits

• Private medical insurance.
• Pension scheme with 5% employer contribution.
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Start: Within 30 days.

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