Senior Backend Engineer

About The Company

We're a fully female-founded company on a mission to change the way people search and shop online for fashion…forever We're going to spark a new era of fashion discovery, igniting confidence in everybody and every body, and to create a world where fashion confidence starts with us.

We are at the beginning of an exciting journey and we're looking for top talent to join our team. Unlike many start-ups we're well funded, have a detailed business and financial plan, and are looking for experienced, passionate professionals to join us in creating and scaling a game changing business.

So if you want a role where you will make a major impact and want to be a part of a team of women building an incredible product and experience for other women, come join us and make the most Savi move of your career

Position Overview:

We're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to architect and maintain our platform

core services and infrastructure. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on building

scalable, high-performance systems and enjoys empowering cross-functional teams through

reliable backend services. You'll design and implement backend services that empower our

Product vision, and optimise a cloud infrastructure to ensure our systems are secure,

resilient, and ready for growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Technology Strategy: Shape the backend architecture and technical direction supporting our Product vision, implementing business rules and domain models, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Backend Service Development: Build and maintain core services for Product Catalogue, user Profiles, and Asset Management.
• API Design & Development: Create robust, well-documented APIs for internal and external use, with comprehensive contract testing and verification.
• Build, Deployment & Release Management: Ensure reproducible builds, provisioning, deployment, and releases by leveraging modern techniques such as Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and other automated deployment methodologies.
• Observability, High Availability & Scalability: Ensure high system reliability and performance by implementing strong observability practices, including comprehensive metrics collection, structured logging, actionable dashboards, and proactive alerting. Design fault-tolerant systems ready for growth, implementing stress testing and disaster recovery.
• Security & Access Management: Implement secure authentication and authorization mechanisms while maintaining security compliance and data protection across all systems.
• Ways of Working & Cross-functional Collaboration: Lead technical proposals
• through RFCs and contribute to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to align engineering efforts. Partner with frontend developers, data engineers, and ML teams to ensure seamless integration.

Desirable Experience

Please note: You do not need to meet every criteria listed below. Specific technologies are

provided as examples of the tools and practices we value.

• Scalable Backend Development: Designing and implementing scalable backend services using modern programming languages such as Kotlin, Python, Go, or Java with open-source frameworks like Ktor, Quarkus, FastAPI or Gin.
• Cloud Computing: Experience with AWS services such as ECS, S3, Lambda, API Gateway, and CloudFront, or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Database Management: Working with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB) databases, including query optimization and indexing strategies.
• Microservices & Distributed Systems: Implementing service communication, discovery, load balancing, and resilience using tools such as gRPC, Kafka, Envoy, Istio, or Consul.
• API Development: Developing public APIs optimized for various use cases, including RESTful, GraphQL, WebSockets, and gRPC-web.
• Infrastructure & Automation: Managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation for automated provisioning and deployment.
• Authentication & Security: Implementing authentication and authorization protocols such as OAuth, JWT, and OpenID Connect.
• Observability & Logging: Experience with observability tools and logging collection strategies using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog.
• Performance Optimization & Resilience: Applying performance tuning, caching strategies, circuit breakers, and fault tolerance techniques to ensure reliability and efficiency.
• Supporting Data Teams: Collaborating with data science, ETL, and web scraping teams by providing scalable and efficient backend solutions.

Who you are:

• Systematic Thinker & Problem Solver: You craft robust architectures, anticipate edge cases, and implement elegant, scalable solutions.
• Security & Performance Focused: You build systems that are both secure and efficient.
• Collaborative & Cross-functional: You excel at enabling teams through clear documentation and reliable services.
• Continuous Learner: You stay current with backend technologies and best practices.
• Ownership & Autonomy: You take initiative and drive development with minimal oversight.

PLEASE NOTE: If you don't meet 100% of the criteria but are passionate about our mission and think you can do the job—especially if our values and work principles resonate with you—we strongly encourage you to apply

Location + Work Style

We'll all be where we need to be based on what's happening. We'll have in-person team sessions (usually once a week) as needed for key activities like planning, strategy, and brainstorming sessions (and some fun), and remote work the rest of the time to allow for flexibility, work-life balance, and quiet time for deep work.

Work Schedule

As the client is UK-based, you will be required to work in UK daytime:

• Monday to Friday
• 14:00 - 22:00 IST (08:30 am - 17:30 GMT)

Pay & Benefits - What you'll get in return:

• Annual CTC: 20 to 25 lakhs
• Device: Laptop provided
• Fully remote role
• Be part of a passionate, friendly and transparent culture which encourages your suggestions for improvement as we grow
• Full training and ongoing support
• An unparalleled opportunity to be a team member of the UK's largest mobile servicing, maintenance and repair business