Top Backend Jobs in Bristol

Leads technical direction and hands-on execution for major products and systems. Designs scalable backend, frontend, API, database, and infrastructure solutions; writes code; drives architecture decisions; solves production issues; improves engineering quality, reliability, security, testing, and observability; and mentors engineers across teams.

Own technical direction and execution for major products and systems. Design scalable and reliable architectures, write production code, lead architecture decisions, solve complex engineering problems, and drive initiatives from concept through production. Improve engineering quality across testing, security, observability, and development practices while mentoring engineers and coordinating work across teams and products.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver and scale customer-facing products. Own architecture, delivery, reliability, observability, and production outcomes. Coach engineers, run reviews, improve processes and tooling, and drive technical decisions across frontend, backend, APIs, databases, integrations, and infrastructure.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to deliver reliable, scalable wealth-management products. Drive architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture while coaching engineers and improving processes to increase delivery speed and reliability.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, reliability, and processes. Coach engineers, run reviews, resolve incidents, and drive product outcomes while balancing speed, scalability, and quality.

Design and evolve high-scale backend capabilities for GitLab’s container registry. Drive architecture, performance, reliability, security, APIs, testing, and operational readiness. Mentor engineers, influence technical direction, participate in incident response, and collaborate asynchronously across product, infrastructure, data, frontend, and security teams. Integrate and evaluate agentic AI systems in production engineering workflows while promoting responsible and effective use.

Design, implement, and evolve complex backend capabilities for GitLab’s global DevSecOps platform. Drive architecture and technical direction, improve quality, security, availability, performance, and operational readiness, and participate in incident response. Mentor engineers, lead through technical influence, collaborate asynchronously across product and infrastructure teams, and integrate reliable agentic AI systems into production engineering workflows.

Owns global technical recruiting for AI/ML, software engineering, infrastructure, web, and mobile teams. Responsibilities include developing recruiting strategy, leading critical searches, partnering with engineering leadership, setting hiring standards, building and coaching a technical recruiting team, improving recruiting processes through data and market intelligence, and expanding talent networks across the US, Europe, and Asia.

Build and support production backend services using Python and Django. Design maintainable APIs, data models, and secure systems; contribute to architecture, testing, deployment, monitoring, and performance troubleshooting. Collaborate with product, QA, platform, and engineering teams, make technical trade-offs, improve development practices, and use AI-assisted development responsibly. The role is fully remote within the UK.

Build secure, reliable, and performant backend features for GitLab repository management using Ruby and GraphQL. Develop APIs, data models, business logic, tests, and policy-based functionality while improving performance, observability, caching, and resiliency. Collaborate asynchronously across product and engineering teams, participate in Tier 2 on-call, troubleshoot incidents, review AI-generated code, and contribute to branch protection, Codeowners, merge strategies, and AI-powered repository configuration.

Lead the technical direction and architecture of the Foundations platform team, owning authentication, authorization, SSO, secrets management, tenancy, and core platform services. Design APIs, drive services through launch, make technical decisions, establish engineering standards, and mentor engineers without formal management authority. Partner with engineering and product leaders to align execution with priorities.

Senior backend engineer responsible for designing, coding, and operating highly available distributed identity systems for Affirm’s international markets. The role includes owning quarterly goals, delivering scalable features in Kotlin and Python, collaborating across product and engineering teams, improving code and design standards, monitoring system availability, resolving production issues, mentoring engineers, and supporting technical planning and hiring.

Build and scale event-driven .NET microservices powering M-KOPA’s electric mobility financing platform across Africa. Responsibilities include architecture, production monitoring, automated testing, observability, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and end-to-end ownership within a DevOps culture. The role involves collaborating across distributed teams, coaching others, and developing cloud-native backend systems using Azure, messaging technologies, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, and AI coding tools.

Build and operate core platform systems for users, workspaces, permissions, APIs, authentication, and resource management. Deliver full-stack features with a backend focus, including admin and settings interfaces. Scope work within large existing systems, plan migrations, manage safe rollouts, debug production issues, and collaborate across product and engineering teams. Candidates need strong Python and backend development expertise, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and the ability to navigate ambiguity.

Build and maintain payments infrastructure, including usage tracking, pricing, billing, payment providers, and stream-processing services. Collaborate with Finance, Tax, Growth, Sales, and engineering teams to support compliance, reporting, experiments, and customer payments. Plan migrations, debug complex production billing issues, and safely evolve live systems handling money. Requires Python expertise, backend development experience, software and system design knowledge, testing and security fundamentals, and strong problem-solving ability.

Design, build, operate, and evaluate secure backend services in a Java-based, event-driven microservices platform for high-volume, low-latency usage-based pricing. The role requires independent technical judgment, code quality and security assessment, and effective use of AI development tools. Preferred experience includes acquisition-related team integration, complex business logic, high-throughput systems, and documenting shared system context for reliable AI-assisted development.

Own an AI-agent-driven backend engineering lifecycle for beqom’s multi-tenant data platform. Define agent-executable specifications, build agent orchestration and MCP infrastructure, and create behavioral verification, evaluation, sandboxing, and governance systems. Direct AI agents delivering ingestion, schema, snapshots, calculated fields, and export services. Assess generated solutions for scalability, performance, reliability, and security; diagnose production issues; and collaborate with product, analytics, support, and engineering teams.

Own a greenfield workflow for distributing Studio video projects across languages and aspect ratios. Design complex data-heavy backend systems, define requirements through RFCs, pressure-test data structures, and lead projects from inception through launch with minimal supervision. The role requires product judgment, enterprise-grade usage and account reporting expertise, and backend generalist capabilities. Media or video-processing pipeline experience is a bonus.

Design, build and operate backend services in AWS for a multi-service hospitality platform. Implement new features, payment and EPOS integrations, improve performance, monitoring and deployment automation using TypeScript/Node.js and databases like Mongo Atlas, Postgres RDS or DynamoDB. Collaborate in a UK development team and automate infrastructure, CI/CD and QA.

Build and operate backend services and streaming data pipelines that ingest sensor, rail, and waterway data into Kpler’s commodities intelligence platform. Responsibilities include developing Python and FastAPI services, maintaining Kafka and Airflow pipelines, validating time-series data, deploying cloud services, monitoring systems, improving CI/CD, supporting customer-facing applications, and participating in on-call operations.

The Full-Stack Engineer will enhance backend functionality, collaborate with teams, and maintain platform performance and security, requiring expertise in Python.

Build backend data frameworks and tooling that keep GitLab’s datastores scalable, healthy, and safe across SaaS and self-managed deployments. Develop retention and lifecycle controls, schema-change guardrails, bulk data removal tools, SQL traffic replay, and background operations frameworks. Collaborate across engineering and product teams, review database changes, improve performance and migration safety, document best practices, and participate in a tier 2 database on-call rotation.

Build and scale backend-leaning full-stack systems for ElevenLabs’ voice products, including Text-to-Speech, Speech-to-Text, voice cloning, voice verification, and recommendation capabilities. Responsibilities include modernizing architecture, data models, storage, and APIs; improving pipeline reliability through monitoring, retries, and failure recovery; and owning workstreams from design through production, including frontend changes when needed.

Build and optimize high-performance Elixir/Phoenix backend systems with PostgreSQL at scale. Design efficient schemas, queries, indexes, batching strategies, migrations, and concurrency patterns. Diagnose database bottlenecks, support large document volumes, and improve reliability across cloud and self-hosted deployments. Contribute to AI-assisted engineering workflows, platform architecture, tooling, and customer success while collaborating with a remote-first team.

Design, build, operate, and maintain scalable alerting backend systems. Drive features end-to-end, contribute to open-source, participate in on-call rotations, mentor teammates, and collaborate remotely to improve reliability, performance, and alert evaluation at scale.