Netcraft - Backend Engineer - Phone Scam Disruption

• Designing and building features and improvements to our products, while taking non-functional requirements like performance, reliability, and security into account. • Maintaining and modernising existing services, including some legacy Perl, ensuring stability, maintainability, and operational reliability. • Testing and documenting your work to a high standard with strong attention to detail. • Taking responsibility for system maintenance, operational stability, and incident prevention. • Responding to issues with a sense of urgency and ownership, identifying root causes and implementing long-term fixes. • Identifying scaling bottlenecks and resolving them, while being conscious of running costs. • Collaborating with other engineering teams to ensure services you own are well-integrated with their services. • Working with cross-functional stakeholders to help propose, design and implement solutions to meet business needs. • Working independently and proactively, identifying opportunities to improve systems and processes over time. • What you’ll need to be successful • Experience developing and maintaining production backend systems, ideally in Go or a similar backend language. • Experience in a domain relevant to phone scams, such as telecoms, phone or messaging systems, or fraud and anti-abuse. You don’t need to have worked at a telco, but you should bring relevant experience from an adjacent area. • The ability to work independently and take ownership of services and systems. • Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with production systems. • A proactive mindset when addressing operational issues or incidents. • Experience working with SQL databases (such as MySQL or MariaDB), including schema design, and writing and optimising complex queries. • Experience with version control systems, such as Git, and CI/CD pipelines. • Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts clearly and concisely. • Open to using AI tooling in software development.