Top Backend Jobs in Bristol

Manage a cross-functional engineering team building GitLab Duo Chat's AI-powered features. Define requirements with product and UX, contribute to architecture for scalable agentic AI, drive delivery and roadmap execution, improve testing, observability, performance, and coach engineers to foster an inclusive, high-performing team.

Build tooling, workflows, and guidance to make GitLab easier to deploy, validate, and operate across cloud-native and self-managed environments. Evolve deployment guidance, improve production-like ephemeral environments, and maintain consistent deployment artifacts and environment contracts across development through production.

Design, implement, and evolve moderate-to-complex backend features, improve system quality, reliability, and performance, mentor engineers, participate in incident response, define backend standards, and integrate agentic AI into production engineering workflows.

Build and maintain backend services for repository management using Ruby and GraphQL. Implement secure, well-tested, performant features, tune database queries, caching, and background jobs. Collaborate cross-functionally, improve observability and reliability, participate in Tier 2 on-call and incident response, and integrate AI tools responsibly to accelerate development.

Lead backend work for GitLab's Spec-Driven Development: design and build APIs, data models, evaluation systems, and agent-driven workflows using Ruby on Rails and Python. Ship production services, benchmark LLM workflows, coordinate multi-person projects, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product and design in an all-remote, async environment.

Senior PHP backend engineer to develop and maintain the Xodo Sign eSign platform. Work in a Scrum team across requirements, design, implementation, testing, and maintenance; build and scale REST APIs; optimize performance and security; perform code reviews; research and propose product enhancements; and promote engineering best practices.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate a high-scale payments app. Drive architecture, delivery, code quality, reliability, observability, and incident response while coaching engineers and improving processes to ship customer-focused products quickly and reliably.

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 grow a high-performing engineering team building scalable, customer-facing products. Own engineering delivery, architecture, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering culture. Partner with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams to turn ambiguous problems into production systems while coaching engineers and improving processes to deliver reliable, high-quality outcomes.

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 customer-facing products. Drive architecture, code quality, testing, observability, incident response, and engineering processes. Coach and develop engineers, prioritize work with product and design, and ensure fast, high-quality delivery from idea through production.

Lead technical design and execution of products for an AI-enabled payments app. Hands-on coding, architecture, system design, code review, debugging, production ownership, mentoring engineers, improving dev tooling, and collaborating with product, design and AI teams to ship reliable, scalable systems.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate customer-facing products. Own technical architecture, delivery, code quality, reliability, observability, and incident resolution while coaching engineers and improving processes to scale product and engineering outcomes.

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.

Lead and manage a cross-functional engineering team to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable production systems. Own technical architecture, delivery, code quality, observability, incident response, and engineering processes while coaching engineers and driving product outcomes in partnership with product, design, mobile, backend and AI teams.

Design and deliver end-to-end features for DAP onboarding and repository/background flows. Build autonomous and scheduled agents that act on customer codebases, improve onboarding experience, collaborate on shared interfaces, review code and designs, and contribute to an async-first, distributed team's technical quality and ownership culture.

Design, build, and operate the high-availability event and trigger system that links GitLab and third-party events to AI-powered Duo Flows. Work in GitLab's Rails monolith, scale for high throughput, influence architecture, add trigger types, collaborate cross-functionally, and participate in Tier 2/3 on-call rotations to troubleshoot production issues.

Design and implement backend systems for a Performance Medicine EMR. Build Ruby services to capture, move, and protect athlete medical data. Address reliability and scaling for a global SaaS platform and collaborate with product, design, and medical staff to deliver production-ready features.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of backend systems for payment processing, collaborating with teams, setting goals, and fostering quality and ownership in code development.

Lead and unify the agency's design technology practice, managing engineering teams, delivery across multiple engagements, technical strategy, architecture, standards, prototyping, AI-assisted tooling, and cross-disciplinary collaboration with designers and clients to ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes.

As a Staff Backend Engineer at GitLab, you'll enhance backend infrastructure for CI, integrate AI features, and ensure reliability and performance in CI/CD workflows.

As a Senior Backend Engineer at DuckDuckGo, you'll lead backend projects, mentor engineers, and develop AI-enhanced features for the company's privacy-centric product line.

As a Backend Engineer at Trust Wallet, you'll develop backend features for multiple platforms, maintain infrastructure, ensure system monitoring, and foster team growth.

Build and maintain backend AI capabilities for GitLab Duo Chat: design flow components and agentic flows in Python/LangGraph, integrate LLMs and multi-agent orchestration, implement and maintain APIs in the Rails monolith, improve observability and reliability, and participate in on-call rotations and cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, scalable AI chat features.

Design, build, and maintain backend API and database services for a cloud PBX platform. Drive architecture, performance optimization, debugging, CI/CD and test automation, and collaborate with QA. Mentor peers and raise engineering standards while safely evolving high-load, networked systems.