Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
The Opportunity
Ocho are working exclusively with a fast-growing, well-funded cybersecurity firm to find an exceptional Backend Software Engineer. This is a unique and exclusive opportunity - you won't find this role advertised anywhere else.
This is a company on a serious upward trajectory. They're an emerging force in a massive, rapidly expanding market and are scaling fast - meaning the engineers who join now will help shape the technology, the culture, and the direction of the business. If you want to be more than just another engineer and actually leave your mark, this is the kind of opportunity that doesn't come around often.
You'll join a strong backend engineering team tackling complex, real-world challenges daily, working across all major cloud platforms and cutting-edge technologies to help protect the cloud infrastructure of a growing global customer base.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the full lifecycle of projects from initial design through to deployment, monitoring and production maintenance.
- Contribute to technical and architectural decisions.
- Conduct design and code reviews.
- Analyse and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of backend system components.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Frontend and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality features.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
- 1+ years of backend engineering experience in a high-level programming language.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
- Experience building data-intensive systems - databases, event systems, messaging systems.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and microservices-based architecture.
Tech Stack
- Golang / Java / Python / Node.js
- AWS / GCP / Azure
- Kubernetes, Docker
- Neo4j, ElasticSearch, Redis, TimescaleDB, RabbitMQ
Desirable Skills
- Experience in a fast-paced, high-growth startup or scale-up environment.
- Interest or experience in cloud security or infrastructure.
Why Join?
- Exclusive opportunity - this role is not advertised anywhere else.
- Join a company that is scaling rapidly and gain real influence over the technology and engineering culture as it grows.
- Be part of an emerging, high-growth company making a real dent in cloud security.
- Freedom to think creatively and contribute across a wide range of challenges.
- Work with cutting-edge technologies across all major cloud providers.
- Get in early - the engineers joining now are the ones who will define what this company becomes.
- Collaborative, globally distributed team with a strong engineering culture.
For more information feel free to reach out for a confidential chat today
Chanel Gillen