Senior Back-End Software Engineer

Back End Software Engineer

Senior Back End Software Engineer
Location: West Yorkshire
Hybrid, 2 days a week in the office
Salary: £50,000-£62,000 + bonus + benefits
+ bonus and excellent benefits

We are looking for a Senior Back End Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable, and high-performance Back End services for a B2C E-commerce platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable, and secure Back End services for E-commerce applications.
• Build and optimise RESTful and SOAP APIs for seamless integration with Front End applications and third-party platforms (PIM, payment services, ERP, CRM).
• Work closely with Front End engineers and digital teams to support key E-commerce functionalities, including product search, checkout, order tracking, and customer authentication.
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to integrate CI/CD pipelines and monitoring tools for performance optimisation.
• Implement and support caching mechanisms and performance enhancements to improve response times.
• Ensure security best practices for authentication, authorisation, and data protection in compliance with UK regulations (UK-GDPR, PCI-DSS).
• Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in E-commerce Back End development.

What We're Looking For:

• Proven experience in building Back End high-traffic, transactional E-commerce platforms.
• Strong expertise in C#/Java/.NET, and database technologies (MS SQL, SSRS, SSIS, Oracle Endeca).
• Experience in API development (SOAP, RESTful, LDAP) using XML/JSON for seamless third-party integrations.
• Strong understanding of secure coding practices (OWASP), authentication protocols (OAuth2, JWT), and encryption techniques.
• Experience integrating payment gateways (eg, Cybersource).

Desirable:

• Knowledge of digital marketing (SEO, CRO, personalisation) and digital merchandising (search, recommendations, taxonomy management).
• Experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, Selenium).
• Strong understanding of caching strategies, load balancing, and performance optimisation techniques.