Senior Backend Engineer (Developer Experience)

• As a Senior Backend Engineer working in the Developer Experience team, you’ll take on a challenging role in collaborating with product managers, stakeholders, and fellow engineers to build and optimize a dynamic, scalable, and high-impact platform
• Our team takes pride in creating seamless user experiences while ensuring the underlying systems are efficient, robust, and extendable
• You’ll contribute to architectural decisions, and drive technical excellence across the stack with emphasis on the Backend at scale
• You’ll contribute to the evolution of our platform, ensuring efficient data structures, clear API interfaces, building and evolving developer tools and framework, supporting platform extensibility and scale third-party integrations
• Your work will encompass API design and implementation, ensuring high-quality code with well-defined testing strategies and having a scalability mindset
• Your expertise in API design, scalability and understanding of public facing interfaces will be instrumental in enhancing our platform’s reliability and extensibility
• You will work with an experienced team to design, develop and implement hyperscaling solutions to third party systems, increasing the extensibility of our systems and supporting external developers through great documentation
• You will build and refine API interfaces and service communications, ensuring clarity, scalability, and adaptability
• You’ll collaborate across teams to create efficient contracts and interfaces, leveraging your generalist mindset to approach varied challenges when supporting external developers
• You will maintain and enhance existing solutions, proactively identifying and resolving issues
• You will partner closely with product management, design, and engineering toward viable product development changes from discovery to delivery
• You’ll coach and mentor fellow engineers through pair programming, code reviews, and knowledge sharing
• This description outlines the primary duties of the role, which may evolve in response to business needs and company growth

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Stock options & company success bonus
• Collaborative, social places to bring people together in-person & virtually
• Work from anywhere
• Paid parental leave
• Extensive healthcare plans- You’re skilled in writing unit and integration tests, with a solid grasp of error handling, logging, and observability
• You’re familiar with testing frameworks and have a deep understanding of component composition, reusability, accessibility, maintainability and performance best practices
• You have strong experience in web-application backend development, in languages such as PHP, Java, Python, Go or equivalent, and eager to use PHP as your daily driver
• You are familiar with how to build software end to end with a firm understanding of the frontend with exposure to React
• You have experience in contract and interface definition, ensuring consistent and maintainable code
• We understand that every candidate’s experience is different. If you’re interested in this role but don’t tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply
• You thrive in a collaborative and growing environment, embracing feedback and continuous improvement
• You can work remotely from anywhere in the UK or on-site in our London office – or even mix it up during the week! Choose where to work from that works best for you
• You have a deep understanding of API design, including RESTful, GraphQL and best practices/principles for structuring efficient, secure, scalable and maintainable APIs as well as networking and web application layer protocols
• You have experience building a product where developers are your customers - you understand their problems and needs, and know how to design solutions for those
• We’re looking for someone comfortable with change and excited to contribute to a dynamic environment. If this sounds like you, come join us and help shape what’s next- If there’s a fit, you’ll meet our Talent Partner to discuss your experience and explore whether Frontify is the right place for you