34 senior backend developer jobs found

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.   As a Senior Developer you will play a key role in delivering robust and maintainable software that meets user needs. You will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment and production support. You will build a deep understanding of the wider service and use that knowledge to solve technical problems, improve system reliability, and help shape practical solutions. Alongside your development work, you will contribute to a strong engineering culture by reviewing code, sharing expertise, and supporting...

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.   As a Senior Developer you will play a key role in delivering robust and maintainable software that meets user needs. You will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment and production support. You will build a deep understanding of the wider service and use that knowledge to solve technical problems, improve system reliability, and help shape practical solutions. Alongside your development work, you will contribute to a strong engineering culture by reviewing code, sharing expertise, and supporting...

PLEASE NOTE: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.   As a Senior Developer you will play a key role in delivering robust and maintainable software that meets user needs. You will contribute across the full software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through to deployment and production support. You will build a deep understanding of the wider service and use that knowledge to solve technical problems, improve system reliability, and help shape practical solutions. Alongside your development work, you will contribute to a strong engineering culture by reviewing code, sharing expertise, and supporting...

Salary £400-£425 Outside Ir35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description   About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Role Purpose Join a blended agile delivery squad working on large-scale, secure digital services for a government client. As a Senior Developer, you will bring strong hands-on experience across both .NET and Python, contributing to...

Salary £450-£500 Outside IR35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.   We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership within a client delivery team. You will be responsible for driving engineering standards, code quality, and the technical...

Salary £400 - £425 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code E14 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Role Purpose We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure server-side services and APIs, while contributing to the adoption of Agentic AI capabilities within our engineering platform. The role sits at SFIA Level 4 : the individual works under general direction, uses discretion in resolving problems, plans and monitors their own...

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...

Systems Programmer — AI Data Pipelines About The Role What if your mastery of Rust could directly shape the infrastructure powering the world's most advanced AI systems? We're looking for a senior Rust engineer to design and build the high-performance data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on to train and improve their models. This is a fully remote contract role working on real production systems — not toy projects. You'll be embedded alongside world-class data, research, and engineering teams, solving hard systems problems that have a direct impact on the trajectory of AI development. Organization: Alignerr Type: Hourly Contract Location: Remote Commitment: 20–40 hours/week What You'll Do Design, build, and optimize high-performance systems in Rust supporting large-scale AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for data...

Job Title: Software Developer Team Lead Location: London (3 days onsite) Duration: 12 Month Contract Start Date: ASAP IR35: Inside Clearance: Active DV Security Clearance required   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Developer to provide technical leadership for the delivery of an AI-enabled Defence tasking and workflow platform. The role will help shape a secure application that combines Python/FastAPI services, React and TypeScript user interfaces, Camunda workflow...

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...

Backend Developer — AI Data Services About The Role What if your C# expertise could directly shape the infrastructure powering the next generation of AI? We're looking for a Senior C# Full-Stack Engineer to build and optimize the data pipelines, annotation tooling, and evaluation systems that leading AI labs depend on to train and improve their models. This is a fully remote contract role with meaningful, high-impact work — the kind where your code doesn't just sit in a backlog, it actively influences how AI systems learn and behave at scale. Organization: Alignerr Type: Hourly Contract Location: Remote Commitment: 20–40 hours/week What You'll Do Design, build, and optimize high-performance C# systems supporting AI data pipelines and evaluation workflows Develop full-stack tooling and backend services for large-scale data annotation, validation, and quality control Improve reliability, performance, and safety across...

Job Description: Project Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and certified AWS Cloud Security & Frontend Engineer to conduct an intensive and comprehensive security assessment, infrastructure mapping, functional review and technical documentation of our platform. The target delivery window is 1–2 weeks. We are looking for an all-round Full-Stack Developer to work with us 5 days a week to also cover all aspects of our websites, including frontend and backend development, AWS infrastructure, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, security and SEO. The role requires someone who can take ownership of our web platforms and manage their ongoing development and performance. The business operates on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, with Next.js cloud-based web applications, integrated Machine Learning APIs and a MySQL backend database. Scope of Work & Key Deliverables Application & Frontend Security Assessment: Evaluate Next.js...

Salary £400-£425 Outside Ir35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description   About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Role Purpose Join a blended agile delivery squad working on large-scale, secure digital services for a government client. As a Senior Developer, you will bring strong hands-on experience across both .NET and Python, contributing to...

Salary £450-£500 Outside IR35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.   We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership within a client delivery team. You will be responsible for driving engineering standards, code quality, and the technical...

Salary £400 - £425 Outside IR35 City London Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Postal Code E14 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Role Purpose We are looking for an experienced Backend Developer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure server-side services and APIs, while contributing to the adoption of Agentic AI capabilities within our engineering platform. The role sits at SFIA Level 4 : the individual works under general direction, uses discretion in resolving problems, plans and monitors their own...

Fully remote, outside IR35 contract role until 31/05/2027 - up to £750 per day Reapit - Who are we? Reapit is the original end-to-end business technology provider for estate agencies of all sizes. We've been helping sales and lettings agents build relationships and grow their businesses for more than 25 years. Our technology empowers property professionals across Europe, the Middle East, Australia, and New Zealand to work with buyers, sellers, tenants, and landlords to deliver a dream home experience. Worldwide, over 100,000 agents across more than 15,000 branches use Reapit to run their businesses, manage properties, collect rent, engage clients, and provide outstanding customer service every time. What you'll be doing Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you'll operate as a highly senior, technically hands-on Back End engineer, Embedded into a squad and owning delivery of substantive, cloud-native services end-to-end. Ad-hoc client...

Job Title: Software Developer Team Lead Location: London (3 days onsite) Duration: 12 Month Contract Start Date: ASAP IR35: Inside Clearance: Active DV Security Clearance required   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   Role We are seeking an experienced Senior Developer to provide technical leadership for the delivery of an AI-enabled Defence tasking and workflow platform. The role will help shape a secure application that combines Python/FastAPI services, React and TypeScript user interfaces, Camunda workflow...

Senior AWS DevSecOps & Next.js Consultant – Security & Infrastructure Audit Project Overview We are seeking a highly skilled and certified AWS Cloud Security & Frontend Engineer to conduct an intensive and comprehensive security assessment, infrastructure mapping, functional review and technical documentation of our platform. The business operates on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure, with Next.js cloud-based web applications , integrated Machine Learning APIs and a MySQL backend database . The target delivery window is 1–2 weeks . Scope of Work & Key Deliverables Application & Frontend Security Assessment: Evaluate Next.js codebases, Server-Side Rendering (SSR) security, API routes and frontend security controls against recognised industry standards, including OWASP Top 10 and CIS Benchmarks . AWS Infrastructure & Database Audit: Conduct a comprehensive security assessment of our AWS environment,...

Salary £400-£425 Outside Ir35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description   About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Role Purpose Join a blended agile delivery squad working on large-scale, secure digital services for a government client. As a Senior Developer, you will bring strong hands-on experience across both .NET and Python, contributing to...

Salary £450-£500 Outside IR35 City Taunton Province Somerset Country United Kingdom Postal Code TA1 Job Description About Scrumconnect Consulting   Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful and innovative technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.   We are passionate about user-centred design, agile delivery, and building digital services that make a real difference. Our teams work at the forefront of innovation, helping organisations transform and deliver high-quality, scalable solutions that truly matter.   Overview We are seeking an experienced Lead Technical Developer to provide hands-on technical leadership within a client delivery team. You will be responsible for driving engineering standards, code quality, and the technical...