Sequence

Senior Product Engineer (Backend) - London

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1 year ago
London, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build flexible, auditable approval workflows configured through natural language.
  • Develop an intelligent collections agent that autonomously runs configured payment reminder and escalation workflows.
  • Scale billing infrastructure for an order of magnitude more throughput while balancing storage, performance, scalability, and cost.
  • Design systems that process high-velocity event streams and maintain reliability for revenue-critical operations.
  • Own work end to end, from identifying what to build through shipping and ensuring it works for customers.
  • Contribute to architecture and technical decisions as the engineering team grows.

Requirements

  • Production backend systems experience with a focus on reliability.
  • Interest in distributed systems and writing resilient software.
  • Ability to understand customer needs and own problems end to end.
  • Comfort working through ambiguity, sharing work in progress, and adapting to feedback.
  • Clear communication skills and willingness to take production responsibility and participate in on-call.
  • Deep relational database expertise is a nice-to-have, particularly for complex queries and performance optimization.

Benefits

  • £115,000–£130,000 salary
  • Meaningful share options
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Modern, flexible pension via Penfold with salary sacrifice available
  • Visa sponsorship available
  • Hybrid work based in London with three days together in the office and team lunch on Wednesdays
  • Company offsites twice a year

Tech Stack

Google BigQueryGoogle CloudKotlinPostgreSQLReactSpring BootTerraformTypeScript

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AI ApplicationsBackendProduct Engineering
Sequence

About Sequence

51-200 employees

Sequence is the modern billing and quote to cash platform to unlock error-free revenue workflows at scale. Backed by a16z 645 ventures and Salesforce Ventures, Sequence is working with leading B2B scaleups including Cognition, Incident.io, Bridge (acq. by Stripe) OpenRouter and Legora.

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