Top Backend Jobs in Glasgow

CoW DAO seeks a Senior Backend Engineer to build decentralized trading protocols, focusing on backend services in Rust and contributing to the evolution of blockchain applications.

Lead backend architecture and delivery for large-scale multiplayer game services. Architect distributed systems, write code, deploy infrastructure, mentor engineers, liaise with clients, design cost estimates, enforce best practices, and drive CI/CD, security, and production readiness.

Design, build and maintain backend services for multiplayer games. Implement distributed systems, CI/CD, containerised microservices, databases (SQL/NoSQL), cloud infrastructure, and documentation. Collaborate on estimates, support teammates, and ensure high-quality deployments and operational standards.

Design, build, deploy and maintain backend services for large-scale multiplayer games. Collaborate with peers and stakeholders on estimates, implement features, ensure CI/CD, docs, security, and support team members while operating autonomously in a remote environment.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll design and maintain core libraries for blockchain transactions, enforce security boundaries, and contribute to best practices in a post-quantum environment.

Design, build, operate, and maintain multi-tenant telemetry databases (metrics, logs, traces) for Grafana Cloud. Deliver features end-to-end, participate in on-call rotations, contribute to open-source projects, collaborate remotely, and improve reliability, performance, and scalability of distributed systems running on Kubernetes and major cloud providers.

Design, build and operate backend services in AWS for a multi-service hospitality platform. Implement new features, payment and EPOS integrations, improve performance, monitoring and deployment automation using TypeScript/Node.js and databases like Mongo Atlas, Postgres RDS or DynamoDB. Collaborate in a UK development team and automate infrastructure, CI/CD and QA.

Join the Payments cross-functional team to design and build scalable backend services used by millions. Produce high-quality code, collaborate with product and design, follow agile practices, own testing and reliability, and iterate using A/B testing and data-informed decisions.

Design, develop, and maintain highly scalable microservices and backends (Java/Spring) for millions of users. Collaborate with product owners, perform code reviews, respond to production incidents, mentor junior engineers, participate in team ceremonies, and potentially share on-call duties.

Design, build, and operate production-grade frontend, backend, and infrastructure systems. Use AI-assisted coding tools, decompose ambiguous problems, modernize existing systems, improve reliability and observability, lead technical discussions, mentor peers, and ensure high-quality, maintainable code and production outcomes.

Design, build, and maintain backend API and database services for a cloud PBX platform. Drive architecture, performance optimization, debugging, CI/CD and test automation, and collaborate with QA. Mentor peers and raise engineering standards while safely evolving high-load, networked systems.

Design and build high-performance backend services and APIs in Go to manage datasets, model assets, metadata, and workflow orchestration. Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, and CI/CD-driven deployments. Collaborate with frontend, product, and platform teams, contribute to architecture, resolve production issues, and support AI/ML evaluation pipelines and human-in-the-loop workflows.

Lead design and implementation of backend services and distributed systems for real-time AI automation. Build scalable, observable microservices, streaming data pipelines, and async event-driven architectures. Collaborate across frontend, product, and DevOps to ensure performance, reliability, and seamless integration at scale.

Own and improve a high-performance distributed data-processing backend that ingests, normalizes, and reconciles on-chain and exchange data. Ensure deterministic, financial-grade correctness, performance, and availability. Lead architectural decisions, write high-quality TypeScript and Rust code, tune Postgres at scale, and collaborate with product and engineering leads to ship reliable data pipelines for crypto tax calculations.

Build and extend the platform layer: design shared backend services and APIs, improve reliability and correctness, collaborate with product teams to remove platform bottlenecks, mentor engineers, shape architecture and migrations, and write high-quality fullstack code with a backend focus.

The Full-Stack Engineer will enhance backend functionality, collaborate with teams, and maintain platform performance and security, requiring expertise in Python.

Administer, monitor, and support Java applications and Genesys Cloud. Provide production troubleshooting, minor bug fixes and enhancements, and act as primary POC for Java apps. Develop/support microservices using Java and Spring Boot, perform analysis of system behavior, and apply problem-solving and diagnostics to maintain service quality.

The Backend Engineer will implement new SDK and Indexer features, automate testing, support integration, and oversee production releases.

The role involves owning product feature development, participating in system design, and maintaining software performance in an agile setting.

The Senior Staff Backend Engineer will lead technical direction for systems, manage engineering standards, mentor teams, and ensure alignment with broader company goals. Responsibilities include hands-on coding, architecture, and partnership with product teams to maximize impact.

As a Staff Backend Engineer, you will collaborate across teams to build and improve backend systems using various technologies, focusing on customer-centric solutions and resilient software.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to build resilient software and support various banking operations using technologies like Go and Kubernetes.

Build and own backend services and APIs in Java for a multi-tenant SaaS. Ship end-to-end product features, operate services on AWS/EKS and Kubernetes, improve reliability, scalability, CI/CD/GitOps, observability, and platform tooling that enables agentic development. Drive architecture and work directly with product and customers.

Own end-to-end features across Java backends and a TypeScript/Angular frontend for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Design APIs, schema and queries (MySQL/ClickHouse), build performant UIs, write unit/integration/e2e tests, deploy via containers/CI-CD, and integrate LLM/agentic workflows to help users find and fix data quality issues.

Design and build distributed backend services for the cloud monetization platform, focusing on correctness, consistency, scalable microservices, distributed transactions, and reliable asynchronous workflows. Influence system architecture, own service implementations, and collaborate across teams to support billing, reservations, payments, and revenue flows.