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About The Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join Sava’s Data Engineering team, focusing on backend architecture and implementation. This role offers the rare chance to shape early-stage, customer-facing infrastructure and influence key technical decisions. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary, highly integrated environment alongside engineers and scientists from diverse backgrounds.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Backend Engineer to join Sava’s Data Engineering team, focusing on backend architecture and implementation. This role offers the rare chance to shape early-stage, customer-facing infrastructure and influence key technical decisions. You’ll work in a multidisciplinary, highly integrated environment alongside engineers and scientists from diverse backgrounds.

Responsibilities

• Designing & Implementing backend architectures, APIs, applications, services and databases to support both production & developmental needs
• Automated testing of backend infrastructure
• Contribute to high performance software development processes & champion best practices
• Translate higher level system requirements to technical design solutions
  
  

• 5y+ experience with production backends
• Experience with strongly typed languages
• Experience with common database approaches - relational, non-relational
• Modern deployment strategies
• Intimate knowledge of internet networking concepts, protocols, servers, instances, CDNs etc.
• Fluent with setting up development servers from scratch when required, on premise or on cloud.
• Containerisation
• Public Key Infrastructure
  
  

• Relentless pursuit of elegant interfaces that encapsulate complexity and facilitate building loosely coupled systems
• Emphasis on rapid scalability of solutions (consider market ramp up when entering a new market)
• Model Based Engineering approach, such as Data Model Design or UML
• Relentless pursuit of system security
• ability to don red team and blue team hats
• knowledge of CVE & CWEs
• encryption
• authentication & authorisation
• lean into security landscape changes
• Flexibility with tools & tech stacks & open to learning new ones. Taking an approach that there is no ‘one right tool’, but rather the right tool for the project at hand.
• Ability to work & communicate across disciplines. Ability to translate concepts using analogies where possible. Disciplines you’ll be working closely with include Data Science, Mobile Engineering, Embedded Software through to other fringe disciplines like Manufacturing, Electronics, Sensor Development, and Mechanical Engineering.
• Focus on System Observability through automatically tracked ‘gold layer’ performance metrics alongside error diagnostics.
  

• Experience in a regulated industry (e.g. Banking, Medical)
• Experience with Data Residency requirements
• Experience with SOC2, ISO 27001
• Experience with development compliant to IEC62304
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Other

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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