Back-end Engineer

The Role:

As a Backend Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable and high-performing backend systems that support a wide range of British Council products and services used by people around the world.

You’ll apply your technical expertise to shape backend architecture, contribute to development and optimisation efforts, and ensure systems are secure, reliable, and well-integrated with client-facing applications. Your work will directly support our mission to deliver user-centred digital experiences.

Working within agile, cross-functional teams, you’ll collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and operations colleagues across global locations. You’ll share your knowledge, contribute to planning and delivery, and help ensure our solutions meet high standards of quality and performance.

Accountabilities:

The Backend Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining backend systems in alignment with agreed specifications and project milestones. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions that support British Council products and services. It includes ensuring compliance with industry standards, identifying opportunities for technical and cost optimisation, and contributing to continuous improvement through feedback, innovation, and inclusive team practices. The engineer also supports data-driven decision-making by developing analytics and reporting capabilities, while proactively managing risks and ensuring system integrity.

Requirements of the role:

• Experience in Backend engineering, involved in designing and implementing scalable and high-performance systems.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as .Net, C#, PHP, NodeJS, Python, and experience with Backend frameworks (e.g., Symfony, Express, Django).
• Good understanding of distributed system concepts, cloud architectures (e.g., AWS, Azure), and microservices architecture.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, data modelling, and query optimization.
• Solid knowledge of RESTful APIs, message queues, caching mechanisms, and other Backend technologies.
• Experience with end-to-end unit and integration testing (e.g., Cypress, Jest and Playwright)
• Prototyping skills
• Knowledge of resource allocation and management, and component optimisation
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience of agile development (Scrum/Kanban), software patterns, test and behaviour driven development and version control

Closing Date: Applications will close at 23:59 on 15th November 2025 UK Time.

You must have the legal right to work in India at the time of application.

Important Information:

Department: Engineering & Development

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Requirements:

Please note that candidates must have the pre-existing, legal right to work in India

Mobility / relocation / visa sponsoring support will not be provided.