Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

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.

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.

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.

Design and build core backend systems for an agent platform: orchestration, durable execution, memory, tool integration, observability, and evaluation. Create scalable services/APIs, develop retrieval and long-term memory solutions, monitor and improve agent behavior, and help drive technical direction and team growth for AI-driven collaboration features.

Design, build, and optimize scalable backend services and REST APIs using Python and FastAPI. Develop microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. Deploy containerized applications on cloud (AWS) with CI/CD, monitoring, and security best practices. Conduct unit, integration, and load testing and collaborate across global engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain backend API and database services for a cloud PBX platform. Drive architecture, performance optimization, debugging, CI/CD and test automation, and collaborate with QA. Mentor peers and raise engineering standards while safely evolving high-load, networked systems.

As a Backend Engineer at Trust Wallet, you'll develop backend features for multiple platforms, maintain infrastructure, ensure system monitoring, and foster team growth.

Design and build high-performance backend services and APIs in Go to manage datasets, model assets, metadata, and workflow orchestration. Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, and CI/CD-driven deployments. Collaborate with frontend, product, and platform teams, contribute to architecture, resolve production issues, and support AI/ML evaluation pipelines and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, secure Java backend services and APIs. Ensure reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency across microservices, databases, messaging systems, and capacity planning. Troubleshoot, profile, benchmark, and optimize systems (including ML applications) and collaborate with Kazakhstan stakeholders.

Design, develop, and optimize high-performance Java backend systems. Contribute to architecture, implement core modules, troubleshoot production issues, perform code reviews, and improve scalability, availability, and reliability of distributed financial or blockchain systems.

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.