Top Backend Jobs in Edinburgh

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs for a live mobile game platform. Ensure performance, reliability, and uptime; collaborate with DevOps, QA, data, and product teams; mentor junior engineers; participate in incident response, testing, and technical documentation.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll develop features using Python and various AWS services, focusing on AI-driven solutions for the insurance sector.

The Senior Backend Engineer will build key backend services for an observability platform, manage data pipelines, work with open-source contributors, and tackle scalable backend system design challenges.

The Senior Software Engineer will focus on backend development, designing and maintaining APIs and services, collaborating on features, and enhancing integrations at Motion.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build scalable distributed systems, improve developer experience, mentor peers, and lead incident responses.

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.

A mid-level C# .Net Back End Software Engineer responsible for the software development lifecycle, collaborating with teams, and maintaining software applications with a focus on Azure cloud services.

Build and scale AI-driven backend systems and infrastructure for retail intelligence: develop the AI chatbot, agents, tooling and MCP integrations, evolve data processing across AWS and bare metal, own features end-to-end, and mentor team members.

Build and operate control-plane services that manage Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. Design reconciliation systems, manage rollouts, support region/cluster launches, improve incident response, collaborate cross-team, and own production behavior, runbooks, dashboards, and recovery procedures for stack lifecycle and configuration.

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.

Develop scalable backend infrastructure for AI healthcare tools, focusing on API development, data processing, and compliance. Manage integrations with healthcare systems.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Responsible for building scalable distributed systems, mentoring teammates, innovating on technical solutions, and improving team processes. Requires expertise in backend languages, especially Golang and Typescript.

As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will lead technical standards, mentor junior engineers, conduct code reviews, and drive feature development in a fast-growing on-demand services environment.

Nango is hiring Senior and Staff Backend Engineers to design, build, and optimize backend systems and APIs, collaborating with customers and driving product strategy.

Take end-to-end ownership of backend features and SaaS services in a microservices architecture. Design, implement, deploy, and operate scalable, reliable Node.js services. Work with Redis Streams, MongoDB, Kubernetes, and ensure test coverage, performance tuning, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Lead technical execution and micro-architecture for backend platform services. Own design, implementation, and operation of scalable, resilient blockchain-integrated backend and indexing systems. Mentor engineers, enforce engineering standards, drive AI-first practices, write production Go and TypeScript code, and collaborate with Product, Security, DevOps, and Infrastructure teams.

Lead end-to-end projects for Pyroscope: design, build, and operate ingestion, storage, and query for a distributed profiling database. Drive product decisions, participate in customer calls, own on-call rotations, improve operational excellence and cost, collaborate across Grafana teams, and contribute to the open-source Pyroscope project.