Senior Backend Engineer (Tech Lead)

Company

Go10 Limited is a rapidly growing UK-based value-added distributor of consumer products, known for its focus, speed, and agile operations. We work with renowned and emerging brands across multiple categories, supporting national retailers including Argos/Sainsbury's, John Lewis, Very, Currys, and Costco, alongside dropship fulfilment and online channels including Amazon and DTC Shopify sites. We prioritise quality service, clear communication, and strong partnerships with retailers and brands.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to lead our newly established Philippines-based platform engineering team and take ownership of the technical foundations of the Go10 business platform.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will inherit an established ecosystem of backend services, databases, retailer integrations, and infrastructure. You will be spend understanding the platform, documenting it thoroughly, and building a high-performing team around it.

The platform is a mix of .NET Core and Java services running on PostgreSQL and SQL Server, integrated with an ERP, major ecommerce marketplaces, and multiple retailer dropship and EDI feeds. Infrastructure is self-hosted on European VMs with Cloudflare at the edge.

You will report directly to the Head of Digital Platforms in the UK and act as the technical lead for the Philippines engineering team, including helping recruit, mentor, and manage engineers as the team grows.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Help Recruit, onboard, and develop engineers into a cohesive and effective team.
• Establish coding standards, code review practice, and operational discipline.
• Help Run stand-ups, sprint planning, and delivery management.
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the UK business during Philippines working hours.

Technical Ownership

• Own the platform end to end: backend services, operational databases, and integration layer.
• Manage bidirectional integrations between our ERP and the core platform, and between the platform and retailer systems.
• Ensure infrastructure reliability, including backup validation, recovery procedures, and capacity management.
• Lead incident response, diagnosing and resolving production issues across the stack.
• Define technical direction with the Head of Digital Platforms.

Documentation and Knowledge Transfer

• Audit and document all live integrations, APIs, and infrastructure.
• Produce operational runbooks for all critical systems so the team can own them independently.
• Maintain a complete data flow map across ERP, integrations, and downstream consumers.
• Lead structured knowledge transfer from the UK engineering function.

Change Management

• Manage production change through version control, testing, and rollback procedures.
• Improve reliability, observability, and operational tooling over time.
• Migrate credentials and access toward a secure, centrally governed model.

Requirements

Leadership (required)

• Demonstrable experience leading an engineering team: hiring, mentoring, performance management, and delivery ownership. This will be tested in depth at interview with specific examples.
• Experience leading distributed or remote teams across time zones.
• Strong written English. Most collaboration with the UK is asynchronous, and your documentation will be the backbone of how the team operates.
• A track record of producing high-quality technical documentation.
• A methodical, disciplined approach to incident management and production change.
• Comfort operating in environments where documentation is incomplete and systems must be understood before they are changed.

Engineering (required)

• Strong backend engineering experience in .NET (C#) or Java, with working proficiency in the other.
• Deep relational database expertise - PostgreSQL strongly preferred - including schema design, query optimisation, migrations, and data integrity.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production API integrations: REST, webhooks, SFTP, scheduled batch.
• Experience operating production infrastructure: Linux, self-hosted VMs, and at least one cloud platform.
• Strong Git-based workflow discipline.

Preferred (learnable on the job - do not self-deselect if you lack these)

• ERP integration experience (BrightPearl, NetSuite, Dynamics, SAP, or similar).
• Marketplace API experience (Shopify, Amazon, Mirakl, or similar).
• EDI experience (X12 or EDIFACT) and exposure to a production EDI platform.
• UK or European retail trading partner exposure.
• Self-hosted BI, data warehouse, or ELT/ETL pipeline exposure.

Working at Go10

Fully remote. Direct access to the Head of Digital Platforms and genuine influence over technical direction. A collaborative, engineering-led environment that values clear communication, practical problem-solving, and long-term software quality. We work with AI-assisted development tooling as standard. Core overlap with the UK team is 9:00am to 1:00pm UK time.

Compensation

PHP 170,000 - 210,000 per month (approximately GBP 24,500 - 30,500 annually), benchmarked against the senior engineering market. Final compensation reflects experience and capability. Employment via a global Employer of Record with standard Philippines statutory benefits.

• Go10 Limited is an equal opportunities employer.