Senior Backend Engineer
- Hiring Organisation
- MarkIT Placements
- Location
- Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
- Employment Type
- Permanent, Work From Home
- Salary
- £90,000
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 and model … development. Proven experience designing and operating production REST APIs with OpenAPI/Swagger. Deep understanding of relational database design, indexing, performance tuning, and migrations (PostgreSQL). Proficiency with containerisation (Docker) and Git-based workflows. Experience with API versioning, security, documentation strategies, and automated testing. Strong problem-solving skills ...