Backend Software Engineer

Backend Software Engineer | Belfast (Hybrid) (3 days in Office in Belfast) Location: Belfast Type: Full-time About the Opportunity: Join a backend engineering team building scalable, cloud-native systems in a product-driven environment. This role focuses on tackling complex engineering challenges while continuously improving system performance, scalability and reliability across a modern tech stack. What Youll Be Doing: Design, build and maintain backend services in a cloud environment Take ownership of features from concept through to production Optimise application performance and reliability Contribute to architectural decisions and system design Support capacity planning and service scalability Participate in peer code reviews and technical discussions Work closely with engineering, DevOps and product teams What Youll Bring: Degree in a relevant technical discipline Commercial experience in backend engineering Strong programming skills in Go or Java Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure Knowledge of distributed systems, databases and messaging systems Experience working with CI/CD and microservices Why Join: Opportunity to work on large-scale distributed systems Exposure to modern tooling and cloud technologies Collaborative engineering culture with strong technical ownership Hybrid working with a Belfast-based team If you're interested or have any further questions on the role, please feel free to reach out to Eve Geddis directly on LinkedIn. Skills: Java Go Benefits: Medical Aid / Health Care Pension