Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

Senior PHP backend engineer to develop and maintain the Xodo Sign eSign platform. Work in a Scrum team across requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance; build and scale REST APIs; optimize performance and security; perform code reviews; research and propose product enhancements; and promote engineering best practices.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend systems for payment processing, collaborating with teams, setting goals, and fostering quality and ownership in code development.

As a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab, you'll enhance backend infrastructure for CI, integrate AI features, and ensure reliability and performance in CI/CD workflows.

Ownership of backend features for Agentic Tools: design and implement GraphQL/REST APIs, build secure scalable Ruby on Rails services, improve RSpec automated tests, collaborate across product and AI teams, participate in Tier 2 on-call, and shape architecture for AI agent interactions with GitLab.

Join Motorola Solutions as a Junior Back End Engineer, working on cloud video security systems, focusing on research, design, testing, and delivering features.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll improve Git and Gitaly by contributing features, bug fixes, and performance improvements, collaborating with the open source community, and participating in architectural discussions.

Maintain and support client websites by writing clean, scalable C# back-end code (MVC). Troubleshoot and profile applications, follow security best practices, participate in code reviews, contribute to planning and estimations, and collaborate with support and technical teams.

Lead and mentor engineering teams, design and build Python microservices, ensure system resilience and scalability, and improve CI/CD processes.

The Full-Stack Engineer will enhance backend functionality, collaborate with teams, and maintain platform performance and security, requiring expertise in Python.

Design, build, and scale backend services and APIs for a customer-experience analytics platform. Architect distributed systems, own end-to-end delivery, integrate LLMs and AI pipelines, optimize database performance, ensure observability and production reliability, and collaborate with Product on features and technical direction.

Design, develop, and maintain the core backend of a cloud-based distributed video management system. Build new features, increase capacity, manage CI/CD and customer deployments, and ensure code quality, security, and scalability while collaborating within an agile team.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and REST APIs for the Personal Loans platform. Develop event-driven, Kafka-integrated distributed components, support CI/CD and automated testing, participate in architecture and code reviews, troubleshoot production issues, and drive reliability and continuous improvement.

The Backend Engineer will implement new SDK and Indexer features, automate testing, support integration, and oversee production releases.

The Staff Backend Engineer will own the Economic Core of Voyagu's Radar platform, focusing on financial systems architecture and ensuring revenue correctness and financial logic implementation across the system.

The Senior Staff Backend Engineer will lead technical direction for systems, manage engineering standards, mentor teams, and ensure alignment with broader company goals. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, architecture, and partnership with product teams to maximize impact.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build resilient software and support various banking operations using technologies like Go and Kubernetes.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will collaborate across teams to build and improve backend systems using various technologies, focusing on customer-centric solutions and resilient software.

Build and operate distributed backend services and genomic reasoning engines that combine whole genome bioinformatics with AI. Design scalable data models, retrieval and vector search systems, and deterministic guardrails to ensure scientifically accurate, explainable genomic AI for production use.

Build and maintain high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed backend services and data pipelines for large genomic and health datasets. Design storage, indexing, and async event workflows; optimize latency, throughput, and reliability. Partner with bioinformatics and product teams to validate scientific accuracy and guard AI-driven responses.

The role involves owning product feature development, participating in system design, and maintaining software performance in an agile setting.

Develop and maintain server-side components for Tempo's flagship Jira Cloud products using Kotlin/Java. Design scalable distributed systems and APIs, write unit/integration/performance tests, optimize performance and database queries, collaborate with product, design, QA and docs teams, and contribute to code reviews with a focus on security, UX, and maintainability.

Build fault-tolerant, reliable cloud backend services for a hyperscaling AI platform, including compute, storage, networking, managed Kubernetes, databases, billing, monitoring and ML services.

The Backend Engineer III will collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and build parts of Monzo's banking platform using technologies like Go and Kubernetes, focusing on customer outcomes and resilient software.