Senior Backend Engineer

Methodfi; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - GBP 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm is seeking a Software Engineer in Greater London. This role emphasizes end-to-end ownership of development tasks, from product to infrastructure. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience and a passion for user experience. The company offers a competitive salary, remote flexibility, and generous benefits including paid leave and wellness support. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and collaboration as you contribute to impactful products.

Benefits

Competitive Salary & Equity

Quarterly international team offsites

6 Weeks paid annual leave

Daily breakfast & weekly lunch

Mindfulness sessions and wellbeing support

Qualifications

• You have experience shipping software with a focus on user-centric development.
• Comfortable with making technical choices in a fast-paced environment.
• Understand the entire application lifecycle from backend to frontend.

Responsibilities

• Work across product, frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
• Contribute to team challenges and feedback loops.
• Own quality and testing of your own code.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Ability to handle ambiguity

Focus on user experience

5+ years of software development experience

Tools

Kotlin

TypeScript

Python

Rust

React

Postgres

DynamoDB

Kafka

ECS

EKS

AWS CDK

Job description

The Context

Natter has just closed a competitive Series A round (securing term sheets in
under two weeks), which gives us the capital to scale massive corporate
deployments for clients like Deloitte, Legal & General, and Miro.
We are a team of ex-Uber, WeWork, and Amazon builders.

The Role

• We’re looking for a builder who values ownership and autonomy over bureaucracy. We hire Software Engineers who enjoy solving real problems end-to-end.
• You’ll get involved wherever the problem lives—product, frontend, backend, or infrastructure.
• Collaboration is key: you’ll work with teammates to tackle challenges together, learning and growing along the way so you can confidently contribute across the stack.

Working at Natter

We are a remote-first team, which means you can work from wherever you do your best work. If you’re based in or near London, you’re welcome to use our office The Strand for collaboration, team lunches, or just a change of scenery.

How We Work

• Everyone owns quality. We don’t have a separate QA team—if you write it, you test it, and you ship it.
• We ship constantly. Instead of weekly releases, we rely on CI/CD, feature flags, and observability to get code to production multiple times a day.
• Fast feedback is how we learn and evolve.
• End-to-end ownership. You’ll touch everything from database schemas to React components to the AWS infrastructure that runs them. It’s your work, but always with your team’s support.
• We use AI to work smarter. Copilot, LLMs, and other tools help us handle the mundane so we can focus on the hard, interesting problems.

Language isn’t the point. We care more about engineering fundamentals than whether you know Python, TypeScript, or Rust.

The Stack

These are some of the tools we use as of today:
Languages: Kotlin, TypeScript, Python, Rust
Frontend: React
Data: Postgres, DynamoDB, Kafka
Infra & Compute: ECS, EKS, Lambda
IAC AWS CDK

About You

• You value E2E ownership. You are comfortable (or want to be) touching every part of the application lifecycle.
• You are comfortable with ambiguity. We are post-Series A, but we are still moving fast. Requirements change, and you need to make decisive technical choices without a perfect spec.
• You think beyond code. You care about the product and the user experience, and enjoy contributing to the vision and direction of what we’re building—not just shipping features.
• You want to see your work used. You care about the impact of your work on real users, not just code quality.
• You have experience shipping. You have 5+ years of experience and have seen what it takes to run business-critical systems in production.

What we offer

• Competitive Salary & Equity High earning potential reflecting our Series A growth)
• Quarterly international team offsites
• Remote-flexible with a dedicated private office in Soho, London
• 6 Weeks paid annual leave
• Daily breakfast & weekly lunch provided in-office
• Mindfulness sessions and wellbeing support

The Process

We respect your time. The process typically takes two weeks:
- Screening Interview 30 mins)
- Take Home tech test 12 hours)
- Systems Design session 1 hour
- Final Chat with the CEO