Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

Design and evolve high-scale backend capabilities for GitLab’s container registry. Drive architecture, performance, reliability, security, APIs, testing, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, participate in incident response, and collaborate asynchronously across product, infrastructure, data, frontend, and security teams. Integrate and evaluate agentic AI systems in production engineering workflows while promoting responsible and effective use.

Design, implement, and evolve complex backend capabilities for GitLab’s global DevSecOps platform. Drive architecture and technical direction, improve quality, security, availability, performance, and operational readiness, and participate in incident response. Mentor engineers, lead through technical influence, collaborate asynchronously across product and infrastructure teams, and integrate reliable agentic AI systems into production engineering workflows.

Owns global technical recruiting for AI/ML, software engineering, infrastructure, web, and mobile teams. Responsibilities include developing recruiting strategy, leading critical searches, partnering with engineering leadership, setting hiring standards, building and coaching a technical recruiting team, improving recruiting processes through data and market intelligence, and expanding talent networks across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Build secure, reliable, and performant backend features for GitLab repository management using Ruby and GraphQL. Develop APIs, data models, business logic, tests, and policy-based functionality while improving performance, observability, caching, and resiliency. Collaborate asynchronously across product and engineering teams, participate in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshoot incidents, review AI-generated code, and contribute to branch protection, Codeowners, merge strategies, and AI-powered repository configuration.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, coding, and operating highly available distributed identity systems for Affirm’s international markets. The role includes owning quarterly goals, delivering scalable features in Kotlin and Python, collaborating across product and engineering teams, improving code and design standards, monitoring system availability, resolving production issues, mentoring engineers, and supporting technical planning and hiring.

Build and scale event-driven .NET microservices powering M-KOPA’s electric mobility financing platform across Africa. Responsibilities include architecture, production monitoring, automated testing, observability, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and end-to-end ownership within a DevOps culture. The role involves collaborating across distributed teams, coaching others, and developing cloud-native backend systems using Azure, messaging technologies, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, and AI coding tools.

Own an AI-agent-driven backend engineering lifecycle for beqom’s multi-tenant data platform. Define agent-executable specifications, build agent orchestration and MCP infrastructure, and create behavioral verification, evaluation, sandboxing, and governance systems. Direct AI agents delivering ingestion, schema, snapshots, calculated fields, and export services. Assess generated solutions for scalability, performance, reliability, and security; diagnose production issues; and collaborate with product, analytics, support, and engineering teams.

Own a greenfield workflow for distributing Studio video projects across languages and aspect ratios. Design complex data-heavy backend systems, define requirements through RFCs, pressure-test data structures, and lead projects from inception through launch with minimal supervision. The role requires product judgment, enterprise-grade usage and account reporting expertise, and backend generalist capabilities. Media or video-processing pipeline experience is a bonus.

Design, build and operate backend services in AWS for a multi-service hospitality platform. Implement new features, payment and EPOS integrations, improve performance, monitoring and deployment automation using TypeScript/Node.js and databases like Mongo Atlas, Postgres RDS or DynamoDB. Collaborate in a UK development team and automate infrastructure, CI/CD and QA.

Build and operate backend services and streaming data pipelines that ingest sensor, rail, and waterway data into Kpler’s commodities intelligence platform. Responsibilities include developing Python and FastAPI services, maintaining Kafka and Airflow pipelines, validating time-series data, deploying cloud services, monitoring systems, improving CI/CD, supporting customer-facing applications, and participating in on-call operations.

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

Build backend data frameworks and tooling that keep GitLab’s datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across SaaS and self-managed deployments. Develop retention and lifecycle controls, schema-change guardrails, bulk data removal tools, SQL traffic replay, and background operations frameworks. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, review database changes, improve performance and migration safety, document best practices, and participate in a tier 2 database on-call rotation.

Build and scale backend-leaning full-stack systems for ElevenLabs’ voice products, including Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, voice cloning, voice verification, and recommendation capabilities. Responsibilities include modernizing architecture, data models, storage, and APIs; improving pipeline reliability through monitoring, retries, and failure recovery; and owning workstreams from design through production, including frontend changes when needed.

Develop and maintain tested frontend software for Motorola Solutions’ video management platform. Implement state management, API integrations, real-time features, and scalable web interfaces using TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks. Collaborate across teams, debug issues, apply engineering best practices, and contribute to CI/CD and deployment processes. The role follows a hybrid working model in Edinburgh.

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.

Build and optimize high-performance Elixir/Phoenix backend systems with PostgreSQL at scale. Design efficient schemas, queries, indexes, batching strategies, migrations, and concurrency patterns. Diagnose database bottlenecks, support large document volumes, and improve reliability across cloud and self-hosted deployments. Contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, platform architecture, tooling, and customer success while collaborating with a remote-first team.

Design, build, operate, and maintain scalable alerting backend systems. Drive features end-to-end, contribute to open-source, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and collaborate remotely to improve reliability, performance, and alert evaluation at scale.

Design and build scalable Python backend systems for a real-time AI voice-agent platform. Responsibilities include architecting microservices, APIs, distributed systems, databases, message queues, event-driven workflows, EHR integrations, observability, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. The engineer will own backend features end to end, ensure reliability and low latency at scale, and collaborate through technical discussions and code reviews.

Build, deploy, and maintain backend solutions for websites, digital products, APIs, and integrations using primarily Python, Django, and Wagtail. Improve security, performance, reliability, and testing; troubleshoot live services; participate in code reviews and on-call support; collaborate with engineers, designers, client success teams, and clients; and contribute to technical planning, documentation, and delivery.

Set long-term technical strategy for backend identity systems, lead major distributed-system initiatives, ensure operational availability, establish engineering quality standards, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor engineers. Build and launch highly available systems supporting international expansion, KYC verification, identity data management, decisioning, regulatory compliance, and global risk models.

Build and operate high-traffic backend services for Universal Wallet, supporting fiat and stablecoin deposits, withdrawals, balances, integrations, and settlement. Develop across Python and Kotlin/Java stacks, design APIs and event-driven systems, improve architecture and observability, review code, and participate in on-call production support. Collaborate asynchronously across teams, influence technical decisions, and deliver reliable financial infrastructure.

Build and operate high-performance backend systems and distributed services using Elixir and Phoenix. Design declarative infrastructure with Terraform, Terramate, FluxCD, Kubernetes, and Helm; manage AWS cloud workloads, cluster upgrades, GitOps workflows, observability, and databases. Collaborate with a remote engineering team on architecture, product development, debugging, reliability, and customer success.

Leads backend architecture and streaming services for high-volume maritime tracking and trade data. Builds Python and PHP microservices, Kafka pipelines, and PostgreSQL and ClickHouse data systems. Owns production reliability, observability, CI/CD, and containerized deployments while collaborating with product, platform, and client-facing teams. Mentors engineers, drives modernization, and establishes technical standards.

Lead cross-functional Developer Experience initiatives across six teams, contributing hands-on backend code in Ruby and Go. Improve testing reliability, test coverage, CI/CD pipelines, logging standards, and development environments. Partner with engineering, platform, product, and infrastructure teams to identify friction, remove systemic bottlenecks, shape the Developer Experience Platform strategy, and foster continuous engineering improvement.