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Backend Software Engineer 2
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
52 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Backend Software Engineer 2
Sophos
• Contribute to the design and implementation of product features that align with technical strategy, quality standards, and functional requirements. • Develop clean, maintainable code along with corresponding automated tests. • Participate in release planning, providing reliable estimations and delivering work that meets scope and quality expectations. • Engage in code reviews and other collaborative engineering practices. • Take part in daily standups, sprint ceremonies, and retrospective discussions. • Participate in security reviews of new development to help ensure compliance with Sophos security requirements and industry best practices. • Troubleshoot and resolve issues, escalating complex problems to more senior team members when appropriate.
Job Requirements
- Practical experience building backend services or APIs in a modern programming language (TypeScript preferred but not required).
- Good understanding of API design, request/response lifecycles, and common integration patterns.
- Experience writing clean, maintainable code accompanied by automated tests.
- Awareness of secure coding practices, authentication/authorization concepts, and cloud native development.
- Ability to debug production issues methodically and collaborate with senior engineers on complex problems.
- Solid problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.
- Experience using test automation frameworks (e.g. Mocha, Jest).
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- TypeScript backend development experience using Node.js/TypeScript for API or service layer development, understanding runtime considerations, type driven development, dependency injection, and module architecture (Desirable).
- Microservice architecture familiarity with distributed system concepts such as service boundaries, interservice communication, API gateways, observability, logging/metrics, configuration management, and handling failure modes gracefully (timeouts, retries, backoff, circuit breakers) (Desirable).
- PostgreSQL (RDBMS) understanding of relational schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, transactions, database migrations, and ORMs or query builders commonly used with TypeScript (Prisma, Drizzle, Knex) (Desirable).
- Experience with containerized development workflows (Docker and Kubernetes), cloud platforms, or serverless components (Desirable).
- Knowledge of messaging systems or event-driven patterns is a plus (Desirable).
- Experience with automated testing and CI/CD pipelines (Desirable).
Benefits
- Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach.
- Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
- Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
- Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
- Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
- Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
- Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
- Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
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