Backend engineers
Engineers who design and operate production services: APIs, distributed systems, queues, databases, and the boring-but-critical infrastructure that keeps revenue moving.
We recruit across the full technical stack: engineering, data, ML, DevOps, security, IT and technical leadership. Every profile we put in front of you is sourced from a private network of practitioners across the UK and Spain who have shipped real systems, operated real production environments and passed a serious technical bar.
Our network is not a job board. It is a curated, continuously refined group of senior practitioners — sourced through proprietary AI, engineer referrals, and direct technical conversations. Below is what we cover, the seniority ranges we typically place, and the kinds of teams we hire for.
Two of Europe's strongest technical markets, with deep candidate density, direct relationships and local recruiting knowledge in each. We cover hybrid and remote roles, and cross-border hiring between the two.
We focus where the technical bar matters most — senior individual contributors, staff and principal engineers, founding engineers, and engineering leadership up to CTO. We do not run high-volume junior funnels.
For Atelier searches, senior engineers on our team interview candidates live — systems design, code reasoning, architecture — before they reach you. You receive the transcript and a scored assessment with every shortlist.
Engineers who design and operate production services: APIs, distributed systems, queues, databases, and the boring-but-critical infrastructure that keeps revenue moving.
Product-minded engineers who can own a feature end-to-end — from schema to UI — and ship it without needing a committee. Strong front-end taste, real backend depth.
Engineers who build the internal platform other engineers depend on: CI/CD, developer experience, observability, internal tooling, runtime platforms.
Engineers who turn raw data into reliable, queryable, governed pipelines — and care about lineage, cost, and freshness rather than just moving bytes.
Engineers who ship models into production — not just notebooks. Comfortable with evaluation, retrieval, serving infrastructure, and the realities of LLM applications.
Operators who own reliability, deployment pipelines, and cloud cost. They run change safely and know when to push back on bad designs.
Application, cloud and infrastructure security people who can read code, threat-model real systems, and lift the bar across engineering — not just file tickets.
Operators who run the systems that businesses actually rely on: identity, networks, endpoint, internal services. Senior, calm, accountable.
Engineering managers, staff engineers, principals, heads of engineering, CTOs. People who have already taken a team or system from one stage to the next.
Share a brief and we will start sourcing from the network the same day. First qualified shortlists usually arrive within 24–48 hours.