Backend Engineer
AND Digital3 days ago
Manchester, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Design and build scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend systems.
- Develop REST and GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed services.
- Work with Azure and cloud-native patterns, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices.
- Contribute to architectural direction, design reviews, and engineering best practices.
- Take ownership of technical problems and explain decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Contribute to frontend codebases when needed while maintaining a backend and systems engineering focus.
- Support solution discovery and delivery in consulting and client-facing environments.
- Apply emerging AI patterns pragmatically when they provide meaningful value to backend systems.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on backend engineering experience with one or more of Java, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, or Go.
- Proven ability to design and build scalable, resilient, and maintainable backend systems.
- Experience with REST or GraphQL APIs, event-driven architectures, and distributed services.
- Hands-on experience with Azure and an understanding of cloud-native patterns; GCP, AWS, or other cloud platforms are valuable additional experience.
- Experience with infrastructure as code, preferably Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and modern deployment practices.
- Ability to work across the stack and contribute to frontend codebases when required.
- Ability to shape architectural direction, review designs, and apply sound engineering practices.
- Experience in consulting or client-facing environments and the ability to work through ambiguous problem spaces.
- Strong communication, collaboration, ownership, pragmatic decision-making, and knowledge-sharing skills.
- Curiosity about emerging AI patterns, frameworks, and tooling, with the judgment to distinguish appropriate AI use from traditional algorithms.
Benefits
- 25 days of bookable holiday plus flexible bank holidays.
- Pension contribution of 6% from AND Digital, with a further 2% employee contribution that can be increased by choice.
- Aviva healthcare cover for the employee, including pre-existing condition cover.
- £1000 Flexibenefit allowance through the benefits portal, with unused allowance available as cash.
- Life assurance and income protection.
- Eye test and first pair of glasses.
- Enhanced maternity and partner/paternity leave.
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About AND Digital
AND Digital is a London-headquartered consulting firm that builds and modernises web and mobile products, cloud platforms, and data capabilities for large consumer and enterprise brands. It embeds cross-functional teams with clients to deliver software while upskilling in-house teams through agile coaching and digital learning. Founded in 2014 and privately held, it operates across the UK and Netherlands; clients have included British Airways and Heineken.