Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

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, test, ship, and operate production backend features using Ruby/Rails, Go, or other modern languages. Design APIs, background jobs, integrations, data models, migrations, and services while ensuring security, performance, reliability, and observability. Review code, investigate failures, reduce technical debt, provide operational support, collaborate asynchronously with product and engineering teams, and use AI coding tools responsibly.

Provides technical leadership across teams by designing and delivering large-scale backend initiatives, modernizing monolithic systems, defining architecture and engineering standards, and improving reliability, security, observability, and operability. The role establishes Go and Kubernetes patterns, guides Rust adoption, participates in incident response, mentors engineers, influences platform roadmaps, and leads safe adoption of AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows.

Develop and maintain the Xodo Sign eSign platform by implementing features, improving existing functionality, and participating throughout the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities include requirements analysis, technical design, implementation, testing, maintenance, research, code reviews, collaboration, and promoting engineering best practices. The role requires modern PHP, MySQL, REST APIs, Docker, AWS, and experience securing, optimizing, benchmarking, and scaling high-availability applications.

Design, build, and maintain secure, tested, performant backend integrations connecting GitLab agents with tools such as Slack, Claude Code, and Codex. Own complex features, develop GraphQL and REST APIs, improve automated testing, troubleshoot production issues through on-call rotations, enhance observability and resiliency, and collaborate across product, frontend, backend, and AI engineering teams.

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 scale event-driven microservices for M-KOPA Mobility using C#/.NET. Own solutions throughout their lifecycle, from architecture and development through deployment, observability, monitoring, and decommissioning. Work with Azure, messaging systems, Kubernetes, Docker, automated testing, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices while collaborating with distributed teams and coaching other engineers.

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.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; write code; prototype; review code; debug production issues; make architecture trade-offs; convert ambiguous problems into execution plans; improve engineering quality; lead critical initiatives; and mentor engineers.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and build scalable Java applications on AWS, lead backend design, and implement CI/CD for cloud-native solutions.

Lead the design and development of secure, scalable backend systems using Java. Architect cloud-native solutions and mentor teams for financial platforms.

Leads technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; solves production issues; improves engineering quality, reliability, security, testing, and observability; and mentors engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable architectures, write production code, lead architecture decisions, solve complex engineering problems, and drive initiatives from concept through production. Improve engineering quality across testing, security, observability, and development practices while mentoring engineers and coordinating work across teams and products.

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.

Build and operate GitLab’s Gitaly backend storage systems, focusing on distributed storage, Git repository management, reliability, scalability, performance, and observability. Own complex technical initiatives end to end, lead system design, collaborate across engineering and customer-facing teams, mentor engineers, improve development practices, respond to incidents, participate in on-call duties, and implement operational improvements for production systems.

Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.

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 tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native and self-managed environments. Evolve deployment guidance, improve production-like ephemeral environments, and maintain consistent deployment artifacts and environment contracts across development through production.

Design, implement, and evolve moderate-to-complex backend features, improve system quality, reliability, and performance, mentor engineers, participate in incident response, define backend standards, and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.

Lead backend work for GitLab's Spec-Driven Development: design and build APIs, data models, evaluation systems, and agent-driven workflows using Ruby on Rails and Python. Ship production services, benchmark LLM workflows, coordinate multi-person projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design in an all-remote, async environment.

Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for Agent Studio. Build orchestration, configuration, integrations, deployment, lifecycle, authentication, authorization, observability, and runtime management capabilities. Collaborate with frontend, AI/ML, product, UX, DevOps, and platform teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performance services. Troubleshoot complex production issues and contribute to technical designs, code reviews, testing, and continuous engineering improvements.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable backend services, APIs, and data capabilities for analytics, dashboards, and visualizations. Responsibilities include processing and aggregating structured and unstructured data, optimizing performance, collaborating with frontend, data, UX, product, and DevOps teams, and supporting reliable production deployments. The role also involves technical design, testing, monitoring, troubleshooting, code reviews, and continuous improvement of analytics services.

Design, build, and maintain backend services, RESTful APIs, libraries, and data architecture for a cloud-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform. Develop scalable .NET solutions on Azure, implement event-driven components, ensure security and reliability, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, collaborate with cross-functional Agile teams, and mentor engineers.

Lead and grow a high-performing engineering team building scalable, customer-facing products. Own engineering delivery, architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into production systems while coaching engineers and improving processes to deliver reliable, high-quality outcomes.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate a high-scale payments app. Drive architecture, delivery, code quality, reliability, observability, and incident response while coaching engineers and improving processes to ship customer-focused products quickly and reliably.