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A product-led SaaS business is hiring a Senior Back End Engineer to help build and evolve its platform, with a strong focus on modern AI-assisted development workflows. This is a hands-on role suited to someone who is already leveraging AI engineering tools day to day to improve speed, quality, and output. The environment is TypeScript / JavaScript heavy , with some legacy PHP , so you will be working across both modern and existing systems while helping move the platform forward.
Role
Role: Senior Back End Engineer
Salary: Up to £70,000
Location: Fully remote, UK-based
What you’ll be doing:
- Building and maintaining backend APIs and services across a modern TS / JS stack
- Working alongside legacy PHP systems, helping evolve and modernise the platform
- Using AI engineering tools to accelerate development, debugging and delivery
- Designing scalable services and clean system boundaries
- Integrating third-party APIs including AI, analytics and external services
- Collaborating closely with product and UX teams to shape features early
- Contributing to architecture decisions and technical direction
What you’ll need:
- Strong commercial backend engineering experience
- Solid experience with TypeScript and JavaScript in production environments
- Experience working with or alongside PHP systems
- Active, hands-on use of AI engineering tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or similar in your development workflow
- Strong API development skills and understanding of system design
- Experience integrating third-party services and APIs
- Comfortable working in fast-moving product environments
What’s on offer:
- Salary up to £70,000
- Fully remote working within the UK
- Opportunity to work in an AI-forward engineering environment
- High ownership role with influence on technical direction
- A modern product environment with ongoing platform evolution
This role would suit an engineer who is already embedding AI into their development workflow and wants to work in a team where that approach is expected, not optional.
United Kingdom
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