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Curated Remote Opportunity · arbeitnow.co.uk$0 Platform Fee🇬🇧English

Principal of backend

SchemeServe Limited

Chelmsford
140,000 - 185,000 USD
full time
Posted 10/7/2026
remotesoftware development

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Key Responsibilities

  • You'll work closely with our CTO and engineering teams to: Shape our backend engineering strategy, architecture and technical direction.
  • Help engineers make better technical and architectural decisions.
  • Develop sensible engineering principles and guardrails without replacing good judgement with rules.
  • Guide the continued evolution of our monolith and modern service-based platform.
  • Coach and mentor engineers, developing their technical skills and judgement.
  • Review significant designs and architectural decisions and challenge unnecessary complexity.
  • Champion security, quality, testing, observability, resilience and performance.
  • Identify technical risks and help teams navigate them.
  • Evaluate technologies and patterns based on their value to SchemeServe rather than their popularity elsewhere.
  • Balance long-term engineering quality with short-term business needs.
  • Occasionally contribute directly to implementation when that's genuinely the best way to help.
  • Be a generally awesome person.
  • What We're Looking For You'll need: Deep expertise in modern backend engineering and strong commercial C#/.NET experience.
  • Strong knowledge of software architecture, distributed systems and API design.
  • Experience with mature legacy applications and modern service-oriented architectures.
  • Strong cloud architecture experience, ideally Azure.
  • Excellent understanding of databases, security, testing, maintainability and modern software delivery.
  • Experience shaping engineering principles and practices across teams.
  • A track record of making engineers around you better through mentoring, coaching and technical leadership.
  • The ability to challenge experienced engineers constructively without becoming a gatekeeper.
  • Strong opinions, loosely held - the confidence to challenge and the humility to change your mind.
  • Excellent communication and the ability to influence without relying on authority.
  • Excellent technical judgement, balancing quality, complexity, risk, cost and business value.
  • Most importantly, we're looking for someone who asks: "What's the right solution for us?" rather than: "What's the way everyone else is doing it?" Nice To Have Experience modernising large monolithic applications.
  • Commercial TypeScript backend experience.
  • Cloudflare or edge technology experience.
  • SaaS platforms at scale.
  • Financial services, insurance or another regulated industry.
  • Observability, platform engineering or SRE experience.
  • AI-assisted development and engineering productivity tooling.
  • You don't need to tick every box.
  • If you've got the technical depth, judgement and ability to make engineers around you better, we'd rather have a conversation than lose a great candidate because you haven't used one particular technology.
  • What Success Looks Like Within your first year: Engineers are making stronger technical and architectural decisions with greater confidence.
  • Our engineering principles are understood rather than blindly followed.
  • Technical discussions are constructive, pragmatic and result in clear decisions.
  • Security, reliability, maintainability and performance concerns are identified earlier.
  • We've made sensible progress modernising our platform without adding complexity for complexity's sake.
  • You've made a lasting positive impact on both our software and the people who build it .
  • Ultimately, we don't want SchemeServe to become dependent on you for every difficult technical decision.
  • We want SchemeServe to become better at making those decisions because you're here.
  • Why Join SchemeServe?
  • Fully remote UK-based role.
  • Twice-yearly company retreats.
  • Flexible working.
  • Dedicated professional development support.
  • Paid charity days.
  • Friendly, supportiv...

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