Description
About Hey Savi
We're a fully female-founded company on a mission to change the way people search and shop online for fashion...forever! We're going to spark a new era of fashion discovery, igniting confidence in everybody and every body, and to create a world where fashion confidence starts with "Hey Savi...". Hey Savi is at the beginning of an exciting journey and we're looking for top talent to join our team. Unlike many start-ups we're well funded, have a detailed business and financial plan, and are looking for experienced, passionate professionals to join us in creating and scaling a game-changing business. So if you want a role where you will make a major impact and want to be a part of a team of women building an incredible product and experience for other women, come join us and make the most Savi move of your career!
About The Role
We're looking for an experienced Backend Engineer to architect and maintain our platform core services and infrastructure. This role is perfect for someone who thrives on building scalable, high-performance systems and enjoys empowering cross-functional teams through reliable backend services. You'll design and implement backend services that empower our Product vision, and optimise cloud infrastructure to ensure our systems are secure, resilient, and ready for growth.
Key Responsibilities
Technology Strategy: Shape the backend architecture and technical direction supporting our Product vision, implementing business rules and domain models, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
Backend Service Development: Build and maintain core services for Product Catalogue, user Profiles, Asset Management.
API Design & Development: Create robust, well-documented APIs for internal/external use with comprehensive contract testing/verification.
Build Deployment & Release Management: Ensure reproducible builds by leveraging modern techniques such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), GitOps etc.
Observability High Availability & Scalability: Ensure high system reliability/performance by implementing strong observability practices including metrics collection/logging/dashboards/alerting; design fault-tolerant systems ready for growth; implement stress testing/disaster recovery strategies.
Security & Access Management: Implement secure authentication/authorization mechanisms while maintaining compliance/data protection across all systems.
Ways of Working & Cross-functional Collaboration: Lead technical proposals through RFCs/contribute Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) aligning engineering efforts; partner with frontend developers/data engineers/ML teams ensuring seamless integration.
Requirements
Desirable Experience
Please note: You do not need to meet every criteria listed below. Specific technologies are provided as examples of the tools/practices we value.
- Scalable Backend Development: Designing/implementing scalable backend services using modern programming languages such as Kotlin/Python/Go or Java with open-source frameworks like Ktor/Quarkus/FastAPI/Gin.
- Cloud Computing: Experience with AWS services such as ECS/S3/Lambda/API Gateway/CloudFront or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Database Management: Working with SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB) databases including query optimization/indexing strategies.
- Microservices Distributed Systems: Implementing service communication/discovery/load balancing/resilience using tools like gRPC/Kafka/Envoy/Istio or Consul.
- API Development: Developing public APIs optimized for various use cases including RESTful GraphQL/WebSockets/gRPC-web.
- Infrastructure Automation: Managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform/AWS CDK or CloudFormation automated provisioning/deployment.
- Authentication Security Implementation protocols such as OAuth/JWT/OpenID Connect
- Observability Logging experience with observability tools/logging collection strategies using Prometheus/Grafana/Loki ELK stack/or Datadog
- Performance Optimization Resilience applying performance tuning/caching strategies/circuit breakers/fault tolerance techniques ensuring reliability efficiency
- Supporting Data Teams collaborating data science ETL/web scraping teams providing scalable efficient backend solutions
Who you are:
Systematic Thinker Problem Solver - You craft robust architectures anticipate edge cases implement elegant scalable solutions
Security Performance Focused - You build systems that are both secure efficient
Collaborative Cross-functional - You excel enabling teams clear documentation reliable services
Continuous Learner - You stay current backend technologies best practices
Ownership Autonomy - You take initiative drive development minimal oversight
PLEASE NOTE If you don't meet 100% criteria but passionate about mission think can do job—especially values work principles resonate strongly encourage apply!
Benefits
Daily rate £250–£325 GBP/day based on experience
Initial contract term 3 months followed by rolling monthly
Possibility of contract-to-hire