Senior Product Engineer [Backend]
- Role
- Backend
- Experience
- Senior
- Employment
- Full-time
- Company size
- Startup
Open to GB only. Set where you work from to check your eligibility.
No BS summary
Senior Backend Product Engineer for an early-stage CRM company. You should have deep expertise in Node.js, TypeScript, and GCP, plus experience building scalable, reliable backend systems. UK-based role.
Core skills
Required skills
Attio is the CRM for agentic revenue. Designed for the most ambitious go-to-market teams, it gives companies the power to understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion exactly as they need. We've raised $116M from some of the world's best investors: GV (Google Ventures), Redpoint, Balderton, Point Nine, and 01A.
We hire builders who thrive on complex technical challenges, hold themselves to a high bar, and genuinely care about delighting the people who use what they build. The team here brings sharp judgement, real craft, and the drive to do exceptional work. We're obsessed about the details and energized by the frontier.
If you want to do the best work of your career, this is the right place.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Our Engineering team tackles the toughest challenges, so our users never have to. Real-time infrastructure, AI-native architecture, and a frontend that feels effortless - all powered by a team that moves fast, thinks rigorously, and holds an exceptionally high bar for quality.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Engineer who takes pride in pushing boundaries, obsesses over details, and wants to help reinvent how millions of people work.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Use your strong expertise in TypeScript/Node.js/GCP to move the company and product forward
- Lead projects end-to-end to solve real customer problems
- Architect the systems which power new features to support our high standards of performance, reliability, security and scale, and re-architect existing systems as their scaling demands grow
- Design REST API contracts for both internal and external consumers that are easy to work with
- Represent Attio’s Product & Engineering values both internally and externally
WHAT YOU'LL BRING
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, secure backend systems
- Excellent knowledge of modern Cloud Native systems architecture
- Expertise with Node.js and TypeScript
- A track record of ownership and product delivery
- A proactive, self-motivated problem solving attitude, with a strong passion for advancing and innovating in distributed systems
- The ability to communicate technical ideas to the wider team and influence stakeholders across Engineering, Product and Design
Nice to have:
- Experience contributing to, or participating in open source projects
- An interest or experience in mentoring other members of the team
- Experience working with data-rich backend applications, or processing large volumes of real-time data
- A love for experimenting with new ideas, tools and techniques, and exploring new technologies
WHAT WE OFFER
- Competitive salary of £95,000 to £125,000
- Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory
- 25 days holiday plus local public holidays
- Apple hardware
- Private medical insurance through AXA
- Pension contribution through Hargreaves Lansdown
- Enhanced family leave
- Team off-site in fun places! (We've been to Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far)
What you'll do
- Use your strong expertise in TypeScript/Node.js/GCP to move the company and product forward
- Lead projects end-to-end to solve real customer problems
- Architect the systems which power new features to support our high standards of performance, reliability, security and scale, and re-architect existing systems as their scaling demands grow
- Design REST API contracts for both internal and external consumers that are easy to work with
- Represent Attio’s Product & Engineering values both internally and externally
What they require
- Experience designing scalable, reliable, secure backend systems
- Excellent knowledge of modern Cloud Native systems architecture
- Expertise with Node.js and TypeScript
- A track record of ownership and product delivery
- A proactive, self-motivated problem solving attitude, with a strong passion for advancing and innovating in distributed systems
- The ability to communicate technical ideas to the wider team and influence stakeholders across Engineering, Product and Design
- Preferred: Experience contributing to, or participating in open source projects
- Preferred: An interest or experience in mentoring other members of the team
- Preferred: Experience working with data-rich backend applications, or processing large volumes of real-time data
- Preferred: A love for experimenting with new ideas, tools and techniques, and exploring new technologies
Benefits
- Equity in an early-stage tech company on an incredible trajectory
- 25 days holiday plus local public holidays
- Apple hardware
- Private medical insurance through AXA
- Pension contribution through Hargreaves Lansdown
- Enhanced family leave
- Team off-site in fun places! (We've been to Barcelona, Lisbon, Malta, and Split so far)
Attio is the CRM built for the AI era. Designed for go-to-market teams, it helps companies understand every customer, automate at scale, and build their go-to-market motion.