Senior Backend Engineer
PopsaCity of Westminster, England, United Kingdom
Posted December 1, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Popsa is a company that is responsible for the entirety of the backend, from the underlying AWS infrastructure to the microservices and code that runs on it.
Job Description
We're looking for a highly skilled and driven Senior Backend Engineer who can cover a wide scope of responsibilities, including user-facing feature development, infrastructure reliability and security, and development of internal services.
Requirements
- Strong recent experience with AWS and its managed/serverless ecosystem
- A problem-solving mindset and a constructive, collaborative approach
- Clear communicator who works well across engineering and product teams
- Solid experience developing in Go, familiarity with languages such as Python or TypeScript would be a plus
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for orchestration
- Proficient with Terraform for infrastructure configuration and provisioning
- Practical knowledge of observability tooling (CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus)
- Comfortable writing SQL for analytical workloads (e.g., Athena)
- Experience with ElasticSearch/OpenSearch (nice to have)
- Familiarity with GitHub Actions (nice to have)
- Interest in and active use of AI-based tooling to support efficient engineering practices
