trainline - Senior Backend Engineer - Developer Experience
Requirements
• Strong professional experience developing applications with C# and .NET, alongside a solid understanding of software engineering principles and modern backend architecture. • A good understanding of distributed systems, including resilience patterns, observability, scalability and performance optimisation. • Experience designing reusable engineering patterns, frameworks or shared libraries that improve consistency and developer experience across multiple teams. • Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across engineering teams and influence technical decisions through partnership and expertise. • A continuous learning mindset and a passion for improving engineering practices, modernising legacy systems and delivering measurable business impact. • Experience developing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (or equivalent), alongside a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices. • Experience building and operating cloud-native applications using containers and orchestration technologies within AWS and Amazon ECS. • Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity, quality and software delivery, while applying sound judgement to validate outputs. • You're curious about the rapidly evolving AI landscape and can identify practical opportunities to apply AI to engineering workflows, automation and developer experience - ideally through first hand experience. • COMMUNICATING AND INFLUENCE • A track record of influencing technical decisions across engineering teams through collaboration, clear communication and technical credibility. • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences, build trusted relationships and help drive organisational adoption of engineering standards and best practices. • More information: • Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits. • We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one! • We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy. • Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do: • 💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail • ✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey • 🤝 Travel Together - We're one team • ♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact • We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated. • Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/trainline/, Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lifeattrainline/ and Glassdoor https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Overview/Working-at-Trainline-EI_IE249203.11,20.htm!
Responsibilities
• We’re interested in how you apply AI to drive efficiency, improve experiences, or raise the bar in your work. Whether you’re experimenting with tools, building automations, or shaping your team’s approach — we’d love to hear how AI fits into your thinking • Anything else you'd like to share? • Such as your motivation to apply or additional context for your application? • This part is optional. If you choose to fill it in, please speak authentically (you can use AI to help you, but don't rely purely on it!). • Diversity Survey • At Trainline we want to bring rail to the world and the world to rail and as part of our commitment to creating a diverse workplace, we'd love for you to take a moment to complete our diversity survey. Please note that this is completely anonymised and not attributable to your profile. • Describe your gender • Describe your sexual orientation • Describe your ethnic background • Describe your religion or belief
Benefits
• The top end of the starting salary range may not always be the top end of our banding. If you're unsure, you can check with one of our recruiters. • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • or drag and drop here • they/them/theirs • Prefer not to say • We may provide sponsorship support to candidates on a role by role basis. • Trainliners are expected to attend the office a minimum of 60% over a 12 week period. • We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible. If there’s anything we can do to support you, please let us know here. You do not need to share medical details - only what would help. • We’re interested in how you apply AI to drive efficiency, improve experiences, or raise the bar in your work. Whether you’re experimenting with tools, building automations, or shaping your team’s approach — we’d love to hear how AI fits into your thinking • Such as your motivation to apply or additional context for your application? • This part is optional. If you choose to fill it in, please speak authentically (you can use AI to help you, but don't rely purely on it!). • Prefer not to say • Prefer not to say • Prefer not to say • Do you agree to allow Trainline to contact you about job opportunities for up to 2 years? • Recruiting Privacy Policy
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