Senior Backend Engineer*
Recruitment Agency: Randstad Digital
Location: Fully remote position within the UK
Temporary: 6-month contract
Salary: Not listed
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Hey Java developers! If you're looking for a contract role where your work actually matters, this is it.
We're on the hunt for a Senior Backend Engineer for an urgent, 6-month contract to help build a genuinely safe, privacy-first digital ecosystem for kids and families. This is a fully remote position within the UK, and we're looking for someone ready to hit the ground running ASAP.
If you love untangling messy system problems, building rock-solid data flows, and working with a high degree of autonomy, you're going to love this team.
What you'll be doing day-to-day:Protecting younger audiences: You'll architect and scale the backend systems that enforce critical safety, privacy, and parental control guardrails globally.
Collaborating across the board: You'll team up with mobile, web, and product engineers to design modular, reliable, and easily auditable interfaces.
Keeping quality high: You'll champion engineering best practices and ensure operational excellence using meaningful metrics like SLIs and SLOs.
What we're looking for:The Essentials: You are a core Java expert (8+) with proven production experience in GCP. Your system design, data structures, and algorithm fundamentals are incredibly sharp, and you're comfortable diving into SQL for ad-hoc investigations.
The Nice-to-Haves: If you have a background in data engineering (think Scala, Beam, or Scio), know your way around Protocol Buffers, or love performance tuning under heavy load, you'll stand out from the crowd.
Above all, we want someone pragmatic, collaborative, and genuinely excited about shipping high-quality code that protects users.
Ready to jump in?
We'd love to see your CV!
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