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Backend Engineer - Manchester, United Kingdom - Vypr
Description
Job Title Senior Backend EngineerHead of Engineering
UK based role – 1 day every other week in Manchester office
Vypr is a Private Equity/Venture Capital backed SaaS business providing a market leading product intelligence platform. We are on an exciting journey to be known around the globe for providing reliable consumer data. Our predictive data validation platform enables manufacturers and retailers to understand what their customers want to see on shelves. This helps reduce the time and costs spent developing new products, which makes for better products, faster. Our product combines behavioural science with a well-segmented consumer panel, and we have an enviable client list.
We are looking to recruit a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing engineering team and be a part of something exceptional.
You'll work in a cross-functional, agile team alongside a quality engineer, product manager, designer, and a delivery manager, all within a single autonomous team.
TypeScript, NextJS, Playwright, Jest, NodeJS, AWS, LangChain & PythonOpportunity to build a brand new AI-Driven SAAS platform on AWS serverless
Lead optimisation projects and guide less experienced team members in these tasks.
Proactively contribute to a team culture that values quality, robustness, and knowledge sharing.
Research and evaluate new technologies that could improve the quality of our software.
You have a solid foundation in TypeScript and and have experience with AWS Serverless architecture. You possess strong skills in building and maintaining APIs and are comfortable working with DynamoDB.
Your expertise includes backend caching mechanisms, message queuing, monitoring systems, as well as CI/CD practices, automated testing strategies and third-party API integrations.
You enjoy significant autonomy in your role, leading backend decisions, project directions, and technology choices. Building products that delight people while also being stable, scalable, secure, observable, and performant is something you're enthusiastic about.You are keen to mentor junior engineers and help them grow.
You know when more analysis will help and when it's time to move on.
Hybrid working.
Company paid medical cashplan.
Enhanced annual leave.
Access to well-being support, including an Employee Assistance Programmes.
Life Assurance.
Day off on your birthday.
Enhanced parental leave
Our Talent Selection process focusses on creating a mutual, fair and transparent dialogue that helps you and us to establish whether the role could be a rewarding career fit.