{"id":99,"date":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/senior-backend-engineer\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T09:41:38","slug":"senior-backend-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/senior-backend-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior Backend Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The role<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Series B fintech business is growing its platform team and needs a senior backend engineer to own the services that move money between customers and partner banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You will work in a team of six, set technical direction for your area and mentor two mid-level engineers. Releases happen several times a day, and on-call is shared fairly and paid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you\u2019ll need<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Strong production experience with Go, Kotlin or Java<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Designing and running distributed services on AWS or GCP<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Comfortable owning a service end to end, including on-call<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Clear written communication; most decisions happen in docs<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What\u2019s on offer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>\u00a370,000 to \u00a385,000 plus 10% bonus<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Hybrid: three days a month in Manchester<\/li>\n\n\n<li>\u00a32,000 annual learning budget<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Private healthcare and 6% matched pension<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Own core services for a fast-growing fintech platform. Three days a month in the Manchester office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.uncoderbuilder.com\/corriden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}