Requirements

• Extensive backend development experience in complex domains
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• Fluency in 3 or more programming languages — you’re a polyglot who chooses tools pragmatically
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• Strong fundamentals in system design, software architecture, and data modelling
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• Deep experience working in complex domains — such as financial systems, logistics, or workflow-heavy platforms
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• Hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred)
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• Comfortable working in an event-driven, modular monolith environment
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• Experience with refactoring legacy systems and shaping technical direction
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• (Desirable) Familiarity with DDD, CQRS, BDD, or similar techniques
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• (Desirable) Background in finance, accounting, logistics, or regulated domains
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• (Desirable) Strong test automation experience, especially in CI/CD and end-to-end testing contexts
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• You’re curious and T-shaped — deep in your craft, broad in understanding
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• You take extreme ownership, from implementation through to adoption and long-term maintainability
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• You’re self-driven, collaborative, and humble — you care about outcomes more than credit
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• You value pragmatism over purity and optimise for business impact

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to help us evolve our core business engine
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• This role is deeply hands-on and implementation-focused, with strong scope for architectural input
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• If you’re driven by complex domains, clean abstractions, and high-impact ownership, this is for you
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• Behind the scenes, our systems model deep commercial logic, financial rules, and real-world operations at scale
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• We’re moving fast, redesigning our architecture for the next chapter, and hiring exceptional engineers to help us build the future of global trade in drinks
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• Own the design and implementation of backend systems driving business-critical workflows, financial calculations, and operational tooling
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• Model domain complexity using DDD and other architectural approaches across an event-driven modular monolith
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• Shape and evolve our architecture as we transition from Java to Node.js/TypeScript in a modern AWS-based environment
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• Work closely with product and operations to build features that serve both external users and internal teams
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• Play a key role in refactoring and rearchitecting complex codebases, balancing performance, readability, and testability
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• Contribute to and promote test automation and CI/CD pipelines, especially for regression coverage
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• Bring system-level thinking to design discussions with a team of senior/principal engineers