Senior Backend Developer - UK (Remote)
Role Overview
This senior role involves designing and developing clean, maintainable software using Golang, React/TypeScript, and Python, while collaborating with business stakeholders to translate requirements into product improvements. The hire will lead technical direction, mentor team members, and own end-to-end product development in a dedicated engineering team focused on AI-driven ERP automation. They will impact scalability and performance by shaping architecture and driving innovation in a remote setup.
Perks & Benefits
The job offers a fully remote position, likely with flexibility in time zones given the UK focus, and includes career growth opportunities through mentorship and ownership in a fast-growing, employee-owned SaaS company. Benefits include a collaborative, team-oriented culture with a focus on learning and innovation, and access to cutting-edge tech like Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure, though specific perks like health insurance are not detailed.
Full Job Description
Join blp – The #1 Solution for ERP Automation
blp is a high-performance ETH and HSG spin-off redefining ERP automation with AI. We solve real enterprise problems with cutting-edge tech and a strong sense of ownership. Our solution is in production across 40+ countries, used by 20'000+ daily active users, automating 70'000+ processes every day.
Our AI-driven ERP automation is transforming finance, procurement, logistics, sales, and more. As one of Switzerland's fastest-growing SaaS scale-ups, we are proudly self-financed and fully employee-owned.
Our success stems from deep expertise in technology and business processes, delivering a superior product with an outstanding product-to-market fit, proven by our growing customer base, including Fortune 500 companies.
Our rapid growth and career opportunities have been recognised with the LinkedIn Top Startup Award, and we’re just getting started. Our HQ? Zürich’s iconic Bahnhofstrasse, a fitting home for a company redefining how businesses operate.
Ready to build the future? Join blp today.
The Team
At blp, we create cutting-edge products for automated document processing. We have dedicated engineering teams for each product like invoices, customer orders, order confirmations, and more… The teams fully own their product, that means we understand the business problem that our product solves and own the roadmap how the product evolves.
We have a strong sense of end-to-end ownership and a desire to have direct impact by solving real world problems. Also team internally we strive to own and shape how we work together, how we grow, both as individuals and as a team.
What you’ll do
Drive Impact: Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into possible improvements to our product.
Build Great Software: Design and develop clean, maintainable, and high-quality software. Conduct code reviews and contribute to a culture of technical excellence.
Shape Architecture: Collaborate on system design, tech stack decisions and optimizations for scalability, performance and maintainability.
Lead and Influence: Guide technical direction for major initiatives, shape how the product evolves and mentor team members along the way.
Promote Innovation and Collaboration: Work closely with colleagues to continuously improve processes, tolls and team practices while fostering a culture of learning and growing.
The Tech Stack includes Golang, React/Typescript, Python, various ML models, MySQL, F#, Docker images deployed on a Kubernetes cluster in our cloud infrastructure (GCS, AWS or Azure) and Github CI/CD.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
5+ years of experience in a software engineering role.
Passionate about software craftsmanship: Strong understanding of software development principles, Clean Code and Clean Architecture.
Product thinking: Ability to translate business problems into precise requirements, specifications and ultimately into code.
Entrepreneurial mindset: link your daily work to team and company goals, balance cost and benefit, deliver high-quality solutions efficiently.
Ownership: take responsibility for your technical work, for the product we build and the team we shape.
Team-oriented: proactively support team goals, close gaps.
Abstraction and efficient communication: simplify complex systems, identify core concepts, communicate complex ideas clearly.
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