Backend Developer

Backend Developer focuses on maintaining scalable applications that power critical business functions.

What the role involves

• Maintaining scalable applications that power critical business functions.
• Maintaining scalable backend services, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to deliver high-quality solutions.
• Review code, mentor teammates, and promote engineering best practices.

Skills and requirements

• Troubleshoot production issues and participate in incident response when required.
• Professional experience building and operating backend applications in production environments.
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Confirmed role details

• Robert Half Technology are assisting UK's market leading media organisation to recruit a Backend Developer on a 6-12 month contract basis.
• The salary range/rates of pay is dependent upon your experience, qualifications or training.
• Robert Half Ltd acts as an employment business for temporary positions and an employment agency for permanent positions.

Candidate fit

• Backend problem-solving, careful testing, documentation, and confidence with system reliability.

Additional role context

• Robert Half is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Work closely with product, data, infrastructure, and frontend teams to design.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code across multiple programming languages.