Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable customer-facing products. Drive architecture, code quality, testing, observability, incident response, and engineering processes. Coach and develop engineers, prioritize work with product and design, and ensure fast, high-quality delivery from idea through production.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

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 technical design and execution of products for an AI-enabled payments app. Hands-on coding, architecture, system design, code review, debugging, production ownership, mentoring engineers, improving dev tooling, and collaborating with product, design and AI teams to ship reliable, scalable systems.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate customer-facing products. Own technical architecture, delivery, code quality, reliability, observability, and incident resolution while coaching engineers and improving processes to scale product and engineering outcomes.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering processes while coaching engineers and driving product outcomes in partnership with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams.

Design and deliver end-to-end features for DAP onboarding and repository/background flows. Build autonomous and scheduled agents that act on customer codebases, improve onboarding experience, collaborate on shared interfaces, review code and designs, and contribute to an async-first, distributed team's technical quality and ownership culture.

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.

Design, maintain, and scale backend services and APIs connecting Phantom Cash to blockchains. Build reliable event-driven systems with REST APIs, distributed-system patterns, retries, idempotency, and data consistency. Collaborate across teams, document decisions, mentor engineers, and improve engineering standards. The role also involves blockchain integrations, operational ownership, observability, and delivering dependable financial products in a remote crypto environment.

Audit backend services, APIs, databases, queues, and data flows for scalability and reliability issues. Identify bottlenecks, document findings, and implement production fixes including code refactoring, schema redesign, caching, indexing, query optimization, and service restructuring. Partner with engineers through pairing, reviews, and handoffs. Conduct performance and load testing while improving system latency, resilience, and infrastructure efficiency.

Lead the Managed Kubernetes Core team while remaining hands-on with backend engineering. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing code, leading technical projects, maintaining technical vision, participating in on-call and incident response, coaching 4–8 engineers, and collaborating on product strategy. The role focuses on Kubernetes control planes, cluster autoscaling, platform integrations, add-ons, GPU infrastructure, and managed cloud services.

Design, build, and scale Node.js backend services for a MERN-based, real-time platform. Improve performance, reliability, and fault tolerance; design APIs and database schemas; collaborate on architecture, code reviews, and operational ownership. Mentor peers, contribute to hiring, and drive engineering standards.

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.

Lead and unify the agency's design technology practice, managing engineering teams, delivery across multiple engagements, technical strategy, architecture, standards, prototyping, AI-assisted tooling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with designers and clients to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes.

Build scalable backend systems for BJAK’s AI Finance Agent, including APIs, workflows, multi-provider insurance integrations, quote comparison and ranking, customer data systems, secure audit trails, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, and security controls. The role requires reliable handling of timeouts, retries, partial failures, sensitive data, and integrations across markets and partners.

Build and extend the platform layer: design shared backend services and APIs, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product teams to remove platform bottlenecks, mentor engineers, shape architecture and migrations, and write high-quality fullstack code with a backend focus.

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 and scale backend systems, APIs, and services for Nango’s open-source developer infrastructure platform. Build APIs, SDKs, UIs, and runtime systems, optimize performance and reliability, solve integration challenges with customers, shape the roadmap, and maintain the open-source repository. The role requires strong ownership, product thinking, developer empathy, communication, and autonomy in a remote-first startup environment.

The Backend Software Engineer will develop and maintain backend systems for data processing related to coffee farming, utilizing Python and PostgreSQL. Responsibilities include feature development, problem-solving, and adapting systems to regulatory changes while ensuring system resilience.

The role involves back-end development using .NET Core and SQL, contributing to Jibble 2.0 API integrations, and collaborating with product and design teams.

As a Senior Backend Developer at Awarri, you'll build and maintain backend systems for AI platforms, focusing on scalable architectures, data integration, and real-time communication.

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

Lead design and implementation of high-performance agent runtimes, backend services, and self-hosted model/agent infrastructure. Build low-latency execution systems, real-time data pipelines, telemetry loops, CI/CD for zero-downtime deployments, and ensure fleet reliability on AWS/EKS.

The Senior Backend Engineer will enhance back-end development with Python/Django, implement new features, and improve architecture while collaborating with an Agile team.