34 backend engineer jobs found in London, Greater London

About nsave nsave is a fintech company headquartered in London. Founded by Amer Baroudi and Abdallah AbuHashem, our vision is to "Protect and grow the wealth of the financially excluded". We have built a global platform that provide trusted USD accounts, global payments, and investments for individuals from distressed economies, where inflation is high and banking systems are unstable. Our compliance-by-design approach and proprietary technology allow us to deliver these services securely and at scale. To date, nsave has raised $22M from leading investors including Sequoia Capital, TQ Ventures, Y Combinator, and SV Angel. Our team has grown 200% in the last year, and with so much more ahead, we're just getting started! Learn more at www.nsave.com . Location: Egypt (Cairo preferred) Engagement Type: Independent Contractor About the Role As our Backend Engineer , you will build and scale the infrastructure powering nsave's financial services. Working...

Role description Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer (Agent Runtime Platforms) London – Hybrid ASAP 6 month Contract Inside IR35/ Fixed Term Employment   UST is looking for a Senior AI Infrastructure Engineer with deep experience building and operating production-scale agentic AI systems. You'll work with leading agent runtime platforms such as Amazon AgentCore Runtime (or similar) to deploy, secure, and scale AI agents and multi-agent workflows across enterprise environments.   What You'll Do: Deploy and manage AI agents and multi-agent systems in production Configure agent runtimes, tool integrations, permissions, and access controls Design memory, state management, and context-handling architectures Implement AI guardrails, governance, monitoring, and observability Build Python-based APIs, platform services, and orchestration layers Develop scalable, cloud-native AI solutions on AWS Contribute reusable...

Posted 1 hour ago  Contract  Competitive     AI Engineer - 12 Month Day Rate Contract Job Introduction Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank's decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and...

AI Engineer - 12 Month Day Rate Contract Job Introduction Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank's decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk. We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their...

AI Engineer - 12 Month Day Rate Contract Job Introduction Handelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank's decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value. We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity. Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk. We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers,...

Senior Generative AI Scientist – Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) Contract (Inside IR35) or Fixed-Term Employment   UST is seeking a hands-on Senior Generative AI Scientist to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions that solve real business problems. You will work with engineering teams, AI specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable agentic AI systems, multi-agent workflows, and enterprise GenAI applications.   The Role: Design and develop multi-agent AI systems and orchestration workflows Build production-ready LLM applications and AI-powered automation solutions Develop and optimise RAG pipelines, retrieval architectures, and vector search solutions Build Python-based APIs, microservices, and orchestration services Design asynchronous, event-driven workflows and integrations Implement AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks, observability, and monitoring...

Role description Senior Generative AI Scientist – Agentic AI & Multi-Agent Systems London (Hybrid, 3 days onsite) Contract (Inside IR35) or Fixed-Term Employment   UST is seeking a hands-on Senior Generative AI Scientist to design, build, and deploy production-grade AI solutions that solve real business problems. You will work with engineering teams, AI specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable agentic AI systems, multi-agent workflows, and enterprise GenAI applications.   The Role: Design and develop multi-agent AI systems and orchestration workflows Build production-ready LLM applications and AI-powered automation solutions Develop and optimise RAG pipelines, retrieval architectures, and vector search solutions Build Python-based APIs, microservices, and orchestration services Design asynchronous, event-driven workflows and integrations Implement AI guardrails, evaluation frameworks,...

Android Developer (Contract, Outside IR35) Contract status: Outside IR35 Start date: 2nd November Contract length: To the end of December 2026, with extension possible Location: Remote first London days: Once or twice a month Who you'll be doing it for You'll join the mobile platform team on a UK government app, working on the app and the services that support it. The team builds and maintains the common parts of the app, such as login. It also brings in key features built by other teams, and manages app releases. You're engaged through hedgehog lab, a digital product consultancy and certified B Corp, also Great Place to Work certified. For 20 years we've helped public and private sector organisations through digital transformation. What you'll be doing You'll build and improve the common parts of the Android app, such as login, in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose. You'll also work on how features built by other teams fit into the app. When your...

Must have skills: Demonstrable experience with Solidity. Strong understanding of blockchain security practices and potential vulnerabilities. Proficiency in Hardhat and Foundry. Experience with Solidity security testing tools like Slither, Mythril, Echidna Practical experience with scripting languages like Javascript or Typescript. Ability to craft unit, integration, fork, and invariant tests, ensuring code longevity. Demonstrable aptitude for best development practices, data structures, algorithms, and methodologies. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM discipline. Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Proficient communication skills in English. Development background in sectors such as banking, finance, or trading, paired with a comprehensive grasp of financial...

3-4 days per week, hybrid work policy in central London office We're looking for a freelance product engineer to join us between June and October 2026, working primarily on wonderbly.com with a focus on driving growth into Q4. This is a hands-on role. The work involves close collaboration with the VP product and other teams to solve deep customer experience challenges around our Kids and Keepsake landing pages and journeys, in order to unlock growth in these key areas for the business. You'll be working within a small, focused team — and at least some of the time, with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well. A few things that are important to us The work you're doing feeds directly into beautifully made, deeply personal books that people treasure. People’s perception of quality has to be...

What’s Yonder? “It's as if Time Out, Amex and Monzo had a baby” - Will T, Yonder Member Yonder combines credit and debit in one membership that’s fair, flexible and actually enjoyable. No jargon. No dusty points system. Just rewards that actually feel rewarding, from bao to beer to a boarding pass. The engineering team sits at the heart of the company; we work in squads alongside product and design, and closely with risk, compliance, operations and partnerships. Sounds cool. What’s my part in this? We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer on a 3-month contract to add delivery capacity to our engineering team. The work is primarily Scala backend, but we don’t believe in rigid boundaries; everyone is encouraged to contribute wherever the problem takes them, whether that’s infrastructure, the mobile app (React Native) or the webapp (Next.js). You’ll be working alongside a small engineering...

Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, mandatory) Employment Type : Permanent | Fixed-Term Contract | Contract (Inside IR35) Start Date : Immediate/ Short Notice period About the Role We are seeking a Senior AWS Application & Platform Engineer to help design and build cloud-native applications, developer platforms and AI-enabled engineering capabilities from the ground up.   This is a highly hands-on engineering role combining AWS application development, serverless and event-driven architecture, Python, Generative AI, developer tooling and automation.   You will build APIs, reusable application patterns, developer accelerators and AI-enabled services that help engineering teams deliver software more efficiently, securely and consistently.   Key Responsibilities Design and build cloud-native applications, APIs and platform services on AWS. Develop serverless and event-driven solutions using AWS Lambda, API...

Job Title: AI Roku Developer Location: London Company: BritBox International Reporting to: SVP of Technology and Content Delivery Contract Type: Day rate Contractor, 3-month About Us BBC Studios’ Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business brings premium content directly to North American audiences through two distinctive streaming brands: BritBox and BBC Select. BritBox , the ultimate streaming destination for British TV. We offer an unparalleled collection of thoughtfully curated entertainment—cleverly crafted and full of the charm, wit, and heart that define British storytelling. Born from the BBC, our mission is to bring authentic British stories to our audiences. Launched in 2017, we are a small but mighty streamer that punches above our weight—available on every major platform and even featured among the bright lights of Times Square—and we’re just getting started. BBC Select is a documentary streaming service that has been...

Must have skills: Demonstrable experience with Solidity. Strong understanding of blockchain security practices and potential vulnerabilities. Proficiency in Hardhat and Foundry. Experience with Solidity security testing tools like Slither, Mythril, Echidna Practical experience with scripting languages like Javascript or Typescript. Ability to craft unit, integration, fork, and invariant tests, ensuring code longevity. Demonstrable aptitude for best development practices, data structures, algorithms, and methodologies. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM discipline. Excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Self-motivated with the ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment. Proficient communication skills in English. Development background in sectors such as banking, finance, or trading, paired with a comprehensive grasp of financial...

3-4 days per week, hybrid work policy in central London office We're looking for a freelance product engineer to join us between June and October 2026, working primarily on wonderbly.com with a focus on driving growth into Q4. This is a hands-on role. The work involves close collaboration with the VP product and other teams to solve deep customer experience challenges around our Kids and Keepsake landing pages and journeys, in order to unlock growth in these key areas for the business. You'll be working within a small, focused team — and at least some of the time, with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well. A few things that are important to us The work you're doing feeds directly into beautifully made, deeply personal books that people treasure. People’s perception of quality has to be...

What’s Yonder? “It's as if Time Out, Amex and Monzo had a baby” - Will T, Yonder Member Yonder combines credit and debit in one membership that’s fair, flexible and actually enjoyable. No jargon. No dusty points system. Just rewards that actually feel rewarding, from bao to beer to a boarding pass. The engineering team sits at the heart of the company; we work in squads alongside product and design, and closely with risk, compliance, operations and partnerships. Sounds cool. What’s my part in this? We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer on a 3-month contract to add delivery capacity to our engineering team. The work is primarily Scala backend, but we don’t believe in rigid boundaries; everyone is encouraged to contribute wherever the problem takes them, whether that’s infrastructure, the mobile app (React Native) or the webapp (Next.js). You’ll be working alongside a small engineering...

Full job description Joining a new project Ideally have worked on Financial Services Projects before (Payments would be great) Fullstack Experience Tech Stack - Kotlin Backend, JS/TS React Frontend Start date ASAP Duration 6 months (Likely to extend) 2/3 days / week in person working (London) Immediate Interviews   The best bit about Red Badger is, of course, the team. We are really proud of our people; we support and learn a lot from each other; we work really hard but have fun doing it. We are a diverse group made up of 22 different nationalities, speaking 17 different languages.   Our 3 founders, Dave, Cain and Stu, who have considerable tech and consultancy experience and still own 100% of the company. We've been consistently profitable and have grown responsibly from the beginning.   We are based at Old Street in the heart of "tech city" and get thoroughly stuck in with the brilliant...

3-4 days per week, hybrid work policy in central London office We're looking for a freelance product engineer to join us between June and October 2026, working primarily on wonderbly.com with a focus on driving growth into Q4. This is a hands-on role. The work involves close collaboration with the VP product and other teams to solve deep customer experience challenges around our Kids and Keepsake landing pages and journeys, in order to unlock growth in these key areas for the business. You'll be working within a small, focused team — and at least some of the time, with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well. A few things that are important to us The work you're doing feeds directly into beautifully made, deeply personal books that people treasure. People’s perception of quality has to be...

What’s Yonder? “It's as if Time Out, Amex and Monzo had a baby” - Will T, Yonder Member Yonder combines credit and debit in one membership that’s fair, flexible and actually enjoyable. No jargon. No dusty points system. Just rewards that actually feel rewarding, from bao to beer to a boarding pass. The engineering team sits at the heart of the company; we work in squads alongside product and design, and closely with risk, compliance, operations and partnerships. Sounds cool. What’s my part in this? We’re looking for an experienced Senior Product Engineer on a 3-month contract to add delivery capacity to our engineering team. The work is primarily Scala backend, but we don’t believe in rigid boundaries; everyone is encouraged to contribute wherever the problem takes them, whether that’s infrastructure, the mobile app (React Native) or the webapp (Next.js). You’ll be working alongside a small engineering...

The role sits within the Enterprise Technology team in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer which supports Parliament in delivering its democratic mission by providing secure, resilient and innovative technology services that are user centred and strategically aligned.   The ServiceNow Principal Infrastructure Engineer is a hands-on technical authority and implementer for Parliament's ServiceNow platform, holding design authority for the platform and working directly on its most complex and highest-risk engineering. The role is embedded within value streams, establishing the engineering vision, technical standards and quality assurance framework that govern design, configuration, development and operation, and proving those standards in practice. The post-holder drives resilience and maturity by focusing on complex technical risk, architectural health, and leading the technical response to major problem domains.   Reporting to the Service Owner, you will...