Senior Backend Engineer
- Hiring Organisation
- MarkIT Placements
- Location
- Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Contract
- Contract Rate
- From £500 to £700 per day
background processing pipelines (e.g. Celery, Redis Streams, Kafka) to enable scalable async workloads, retries, and fault-tolerant integrations. Design data models and optimise relational databases (PostgreSQL) for performance, partitioning, and horizontal scale. Introduce caching, rate limiting, and queuing to meet performance budgets and latency goals. Integrate with AI pipelines … architectures. Proven experience designing and operating production REST APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger. Comfortable working in a React/TypeScript codebase. Deep understanding of relational database design, indexing, performance tuning, and migrations (PostgreSQL). Proficiency with containerisation (Docker) and Git-based workflows. Familiarity with AWS core services ...