Flywheel · London
Software Engineering
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In this role, you will architect and implement backend capabilities that drive our global, high-scale cloud infrastructure services.This position transcends standard backend development and pure DevOps; you will operate at the intersection of software engineering, distributed systems, and production reliability, maintaining full ownership of services from initial design through observability and technical support. Your work will focus on complex challenges in resiliency, asynchronous workflows, automation, and system scalability. We value engineers with deep technical fundamentals who are eager to adapt to evolving architectures, new languages, and emerging cloud-native technologies.
Design, build, test, and operate scalable backend services and platform capabilities.
Develop APIs and service integrations used across distributed and cloud-based systems.
Make technical design decisions around data flow, asynchronous workflows, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
Own services throughout their lifecycle, from design and implementation to deployment, observability, troubleshooting, and production support.
Design and operate services across different cloud and platform environments, understanding how application, infrastructure, networking, and runtime decisions affect production systems.
Work across modern and established platform technologies, making pragmatic decisions based on system requirements.
Diagnose complex problems across application, infrastructure, networking, and data layers.
Improve CI/CD, automation, testing, and engineering workflows to reduce manual work and increase delivery quality.
Contribute to technical designs through ADRs, RFCs, and architecture discussions.
Collaborate with engineers across teams and help raise engineering standards through technical feedback and knowledge sharing.
Use AI-assisted engineering tools to accelerate development, investigate problems, and improve engineering productivity.
You have strong software engineering fundamentals and a passion for building scalable, resilient production systems. You value engineering principles over specific languages and are comfortable operating across the entire software lifecycle.
Backend & Cloud Architecture: Skilled in designing REST/gRPC APIs, relational databases (SQL), and cloud-native architectures across GCP and AWS environments.
Distributed Systems: Deep understanding of event-driven architecture, asynchronous processing, scalability, fault tolerance, and eventual consistency.
DevOps & Security: Committed to Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), observability (monitoring/tracing), and integrating security (IAM, OAuth) throughout the development process.
Engineering Discipline: Practitioner of SOLID principles, automated testing, and collaborative development through code reviews and technical documentation.
AI Integration: Proactive in leveraging modern AI tools to accelerate development and improve code quality while maintaining technical ownership.
Languages & Runtimes: Go, PHP, Ruby, Python.
Cloud Services: GCP (GKE, Pub/Sub, IAM, BigQuery, Cloud SQL) and AWS (EC2, S3).
Orchestration & Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform.
Observability Tools: OpenTelemetry, Google Cloud Operations, Prometheus, Datadog
Company Stock Options (Every employee is an owner in the company)
Health Benefits (LuxMed Premium Rehab + Dentistry III)
Pension Scheme with a match
Life Insurance, 100% premium paid by WP Engine
Free Multisport Card - Light and Classic
Short-Term Disability & Sick Leave: 100% salary coverage for the first 33 days
Employee Assistance Program
Generous Vacation Time (Who doesn’t like time off)
1 floating holiday
4 Company Wellness Days
Home Office Stipend
On-going education through LinkedIn Learning, Workday Learning and our Career Growth Portal
At WP Engine, we strive to have the broadest possible view of diversity, going beyond visible differences to include the background, experiences, skills, and perspectives that make each person unique. WP Engine is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, Veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.
Base Salary Range
We believe that compensation should be reflective of the impact you have within the organization relative to the market value of your role. The estimated base salary range for this position is as listed above. Some roles may also be eligible for overtime pay. Our salary ranges are determined by job role and responsibilities and level. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for salaries for the position nationwide. The actual base pay will vary based on various factors including job-related skills and individual qualifications objectively assessed during the interview process. Your talent acquisition partner can share more about the total rewards package at WP Engine including any additional total rewards components such as equity, variable pay plans (if applicable), and benefits during the hiring process.