Job description
Principal Backend Engineer
Company Overview
edenity partners with companies building and scaling product, engineering, data, and AI teams at critical moments of growth. Our work spans the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and the Nordics, supporting organisations that need to strengthen technical depth while continuing to ship, scale, and evolve.
Job Summary
Our client is building the future of regulatory technology: systems that turn complex regulation into reliable, scalable infrastructure for ambitious companies across Europe. The work is high-stakes, high-impact, and high-bar and it’s being built in a fast-moving scale-up, not a corporate environment. You’ll join a small, high-calibre team of some of Europe’s best engineers.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead by example – design, build, and deliver backend systems that are robust, scalable, and easy to maintain
- Architect APIs and infrastructure for environments where trust, resilience, and accuracy are critical
- Contribute to engineering practices and technical culture, ensuring quality and maintainability remain front and centre
- Collaborate closely with product and leadership to turn complex, ambiguous requirements into clear technical solutions
- Balance being hands-on with code while also guiding architectural decisions and mentoring peers
Requirements / Qualifications
- Significant experience working in fast-paced, complex product organizations, ideally in distributed or high-availability systems
- A systems thinker who can see how individual decisions affect long-term system behaviour
- Experience providing technical leadership: mentoring, reviewing, and raising standards for teams
- Strong communication skills, able to simplify complexity and bring clarity across disciplines
- Someone who thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments and finds energy in creating clarity from chaos
- Curiosity, thoughtfulness, and a strong sense of craft
Preferred Qualifications
- Building systems in regulated or high-trust industries (finance, health, insurance, critical infrastructure)
- Working with event-driven architectures, distributed systems, or compliance-heavy workflows
- Experience with multi-tenant, enterprise-grade platforms
Location
Remote (Europe), is_remote: True
Employment Type
Full Time
