Lead Backend Engineer

Can you bring your strong backend development skills to our team Join our team in Solihull UK and enjoy a collaborative culture that empowers you to build a career you can be proud role is hybrid.

What you would do as our LeadBackendEngineer

Biosite provides biometric access control and workforce management software solutions for the construction industry and Biosite is expanding the team and is looking for aLead Backend Engineerto support its growth journey. Joining the R&D team the Lead Backend Engineer reporting directly to the Head of Software will play an essential role in R&D to drive profitable and sustainable growth whilst upholding company values.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead Backend Engineer to join our dynamic ideal candidate will be an expert in C with a passion for building scalable high-quality applications. The Lead Backend Engineer will be responsible for leading the development of the backend stack ensuringbest practices are followed and collaborate closely with front-end engineers and the Product team to deliver highly efficient systems.

You would also:

Collaborate with product managers architects and other stakeholders to define technical requirements and design develop and maintain backend systems that power our access control and security solutions.

Evaluate develop and implement AI-powered tools and solutions to enhance products engineering productivity and operational efficiency and optimize performance scalability and reliability of our APIs and services.

Stay current with emerging AI technologies and provide technical leadership on the adoption of AI best practices across the team and participate in API design discussions and contribute to the evolution of our platform.

Lead and assist a team of backend engineers fostering a collaborative high-performing engineering culture and own technical delivery for backend projects ensuring work is well-planned tracked and delivered on time.

Facilitate sprint planning stand-ups and retrospectives in collaboration with product and delivery teams and identify bottlenecks optimize database queries and improve system efficiency write unit tests participate in code reviews and collaborate with QA engineers to ensure high-quality software releases.

The skills and experience you need
We are looking for someone who:

Has a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field and has proven experience as a Lead Backend Engineer or similar role.

Has strong proficiency in C with fair knowledge of the language specification and thorough knowledge of the standard library STL containers and algorithms.

Has experience developing integrating or deploying AI/ML-powered solutions and is familiar with Large Language Models (LLMs) AI-assisted development tools and modern AI frameworks.

Has understanding of AI system architecture prompt engineering vector databases RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) and AI service integration and has experience evaluating

Has knowledge of database systems and excellent problem-solving skills and a proactive attitude.

What we offer

Were passionate about providing amazing opportunities and benefits so you can continue and progress a lifelong career with us heres what we have to offer:

Salary commensurate with experience.

Flexible hours 37.5 hours a week with core hours between 10am and 4pm (GMT/BST).

24 days leave increasing 1 day/year after 2 years of employment.

The role is hybridwith at least2-3daysper week expected at our modern purpose-built offices in Solihull UK.

Company pension scheme.

10% time available to work on your own projects and ideas.

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We are the ASSA ABLOY Group
Our people have made us the global leader in access return we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces physical and virtual safer more secure and easier to access.

As an employer we value results not titles or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions supporting them with regular feedback training and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact and we encourage them to grow their role locally regionally or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board its important to us to have diverse inclusive teams and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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