It's an exciting time to join us. We are expanding into new markets, building new technologies, and steadily progressing toward our ambition of exciting the world. As the business continues to grow, so does the scale and impact of our initiatives. To support this growth, we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who can play a key role in delivering high-quality integrations, shaping engineering standards, and helping us accelerate the onboarding of new providers. As we continue to scale rapidly, this role will be instrumental in ensuring that our systems remain reliable, efficient, and capable of supporting our evolving platform.
Our teams operate as product-focused squads with strong ownership and accountability. We encourage open and candid feedback while focusing on delivering measurable outcomes. Engineers are empowered to build, run, and continuously improve the technology that powers Super's customer experience, ensuring that our products remain scalable, resilient, and innovative as we grow.
What the role involves
- Collaborate closely with geographically distributed engineering teams to design and implement scalable and robust software solutions
- Enhance the existing platform to increase the amount of business functionality driven by end-user configuration
- Enhance system automation across scale, resiliency, and deployment
- Maintain, enhance, and create common platform components and libraries (AWS, Erlang, Go, Kafka)
- Work with technical and non-technical stakeholders across the wider organisation to understand and drive requirements and improvements across the platform
- Build on our cloud-native platform, enabling greater use of AWS technology to accelerate delivery, scale, and resiliency
- Build on our observability tooling and infrastructure to better understand the capabilities of our systems
- Lead initiatives and tasks, driving them to completion and championing continuous improvement to enhance team productivity and efficiency
- Grow the engineering community by building on existing processes and practices
What we are looking for
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in a large-scale production environment
- Experience engineering high-quality, highly scalable software in any object-oriented or functional language
- Experience working with distributed systems
- Experience building and improving upon observability
- A talent for clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing, and continuous deployment
- A passion for working in the cloud and automation
- A passion for creating user-centric, data-driven solutions
- A willingness to learn new technologies
Nice to have
- Experience with AWS (CloudFormation, MSK, S3, Cognito, etc.)
- Knowledge of Kafka
- An interest in functional programming
- Front-end development experience in React
What we offer
- Medical / Health Insurance
- Open Annual Leave
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Training & Learning Development
Additional benefits vary by country and will be shared during the hiring process.