Senior Backend Engineer

How you will contribute:

• Take technical responsibility for all stages in the software development life cycle
• Take ownership of your code in production, including creating and managing observability, alerts and FinOps dashboards.
• Work with our Enablement, InfoSec and Support teams to ensure your code is secure, well-documented and supportable.
• Work closely with our stakeholders (the other engineering teams) to ensure their needs are met and that they are educated and informed as to what services we have made available.
• Write maintainable, scalable, high-performance code.
• Configure and deploy open-source products to support our custom solutions.

What you ll need to be successful:

• 5+ years of professional experience in backend development with proficiency in some of the following programming languages: Go, Python, Java, Javascript/Typescript.
• Professional experience with AWS and its various services, including building and deploying applications in a cloud environment..
• Experience with API development, including building and maintaining API gateways as a service to other engineers.
• Understanding of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) concepts and experience in applying them to AI/ML applications
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks such as CDK and Terraform
• Proficiency in building automated CI/CD pipelines and deploying them into AWS (experience with CircleCI is a plus).
• Experience in building containerized and FaaS services to enhance scalability and efficiency
• Deep understanding of scalable web infrastructure, including API gateways, load balancers, WAFs, and CDNs
• Familiarity with web technologies like React is a plus, particularly if you ve worked with or have a strong understanding of UI/UX concerns.
• You value well-thought-out and straightforward solutions to complex problems.
• Mentorship experience - you ll have been seen as a go-to person in your last role.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated strong ownership of your work, with a proactive, scrappy, and action-biased approach

Our culture

We all play a part in building our culture. Whether its through welcoming new colleagues, team building activities, joining colleague events, celebrations or affinity groups there s an opportunity for you to get involved. Continuous development is central to our working culture and we encourage teams to pair up or mob on tasks. From our 10% a week learning time policy, to our learning and development platform, Degreed, with unlimited access to Udemy courses, as well as a host of other world-class content providers - there are many ways to develop your skills and career with us.

The Economist Group values diversity. We are committed to equal opportunities and creating an inclusive environment for all our employees. We welcome applicants regardless of ethnic origin, national origin, gender, gender identity, race, colour, religious beliefs, disability, sexual orientation, age or marital status.