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Backend Engineer - .NET / Azure / Event-Driven Architecture
Quick overview
Salary£500 - £600/mo
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeRemote
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
C#.NETJavaAzure
Job description
£500 TO 600 GBP
Remote WORKING
Type: Contract
Backend Engineer - .NET / Azure / Event-Driven Architecture
Contract: 6 months
Day Rate: Up to £600per day, Inside IR35
Working Arrangement: Remote-first, with occasional flexibility required
Security Clearance: Active SC clearance required
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to take a technical lead role within a development pod, delivering robust backend solutions using modern distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
You will specialise in designing and developing CQRS-based systems, helping shape technical approaches and ensuring high-quality backend delivery within a collaborative engineering environment.
This is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer with strong architectural knowledge and practical development experience to contribute to complex, secure technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Contract Details
Remote WORKING
Type: Contract
Backend Engineer - .NET / Azure / Event-Driven Architecture
Contract: 6 months
Day Rate: Up to £600per day, Inside IR35
Working Arrangement: Remote-first, with occasional flexibility required
Security Clearance: Active SC clearance required
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to take a technical lead role within a development pod, delivering robust backend solutions using modern distributed systems and event-driven architecture.
You will specialise in designing and developing CQRS-based systems, helping shape technical approaches and ensuring high-quality backend delivery within a collaborative engineering environment.
This is an opportunity for a hands-on engineer with strong architectural knowledge and practical development experience to contribute to complex, secure technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the technical lead for backend development within a delivery pod.
- Design and develop event-driven, distributed backend systems.
- Implement and maintain CQRS-based architectures.
- Apply event sourcing principles where appropriate.
- Develop and integrate APIs to support reliable system communication.
- Build and maintain solutions using C#/.NET and Azure technologies.
- Work with Azure Service Bus to support event-driven messaging and integration.
- Contribute to technical design decisions, coding standards and engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with other engineers and stakeholders to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.
- CQRS: Strong practical experience designing and implementing CQRS-based systems.
- C#/.NET: Proven backend development experience, preferably using C# and .NET.
- Event-driven architecture: Experience building systems based on events and asynchronous messaging.
- Event sourcing: Understanding and practical experience of event-sourced systems.
- Azure Service Bus: Experience implementing messaging and integration patterns.
- API development: Experience designing and developing backend APIs.
- Distributed systems: Understanding of distributed architectures, reliability and system integration.
- Azure: Experience developing and deploying solutions within Microsoft Azure.
- Technical leadership: Ability to guide backend development and contribute to technical decisions within a delivery team.
- Security clearance: Must hold active SC clearance.
Contract Details
- Six-month initial contract.
- Inside IR35, with flexibility for candidates offering the full range of required skills.
- Remote-first working, with occasional flexibility required.
- Active SC clearance is essential.
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