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NTT DATA UK seeks a delivery-focused Backend Developer to join our expanding team, working from our Birmingham London offices. The role requires on-site presence in Leeds for two days per week, providing an excellent opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders in a dynamic, hybrid environment.
As a Backend Developer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, APIs, and data integrations within a mature cloud-native platform. You will work under the technical direction of onshore senior engineers and principals, contributing high-quality, scalable backend code to support business outcomes.
What you'll be doing:
You are an experienced backend developer, passionate about producing high-quality code and collaborating in a team. Adaptable to hybrid working, you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are committed to continuous improvement and best practice engineering.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain backend services and RESTful APIs, adhering to established architectural patterns and standards.
- Implement business logic, data access layers, and integrations with internal and external systems.
- Develop and enhance RESTful APIs, following defined contracts and ensuring robust error handling.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, following engineering best practices.
- Contribute to unit and integration test suites to ensure functional correctness and regression safety.
- Support feature delivery by implementing backend components from pre-defined designs and tickets.
- Participate in code reviews, address feedback, and continuously improve code quality.
- Troubleshoot backend issues using logs and diagnostics, escalating complex concerns to onshore leads.
- Work within an Agile/Scrum team, contributing to sprint delivery and estimations for assigned work.
- Follow established security, performance, and reliability guidelines when implementing backend changes.
What experience you'll bring:
- 3–6+ years of backend development experience, preferably in distributed or offshore delivery teams.
- Strong experience with Python or equivalent backend frameworks.
- Solid understanding of REST API development, including request/response models and error handling strategies.
- Hands-on experience in microservices-based architectures.
- Proficient in deploying and running services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or other hyperscale cloud providers.
- Familiarity with managed database solutions such as Cloud SQL or PostgreSQL.
- Good knowledge of containerised workloads (Docker) and serverless/container platforms like Cloud Run or Kubernetes.
- Excellent SQL skills, including schema design, query optimisation, and maintaining data consistency.
- Experience integrating with external systems, using APIs or messaging solutions.
- Awareness of key backend patterns such as data validation, idempotency, and robust failure handling.
- Experience writing unit and integration tests for backend services.
- Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and Git-based version control workflows.
- Ability to work from detailed requirements, tickets, and technical guidance provided by onshore leads.
- Effective communicator, able to clearly report progress, blockers, and risks to onshore counterparts.
- Willingness to follow established standards and best practices.
Who we are:
We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects.
Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation. We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.
For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA
what we'll offer you:
We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.
You can find more information about NTT DATA UK & Ireland here: https://uk.nttdata.com/
We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
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“Upon joining the NTT DATA UK family, you will experience a culturally diverse organisation living our values of Clients First, Teamwork and Foresight as we partner with our customers every day.
At NTT DATA UK, we are proud to support and invest in our people. We offer a variety of rewarding career paths and opportunities to develop professionally - with access to cutting edge innovation.”
Niccolo Spataro, CEO, NTT DATA UK
