Infra & Backend Engineer

About Ubeya

Ubeya is a leading SaaS B2B platform in the work sector, making large operations easy to manage. You can find Ubeya in top stadiums in the UK and Europe, like Wembley, Emirates, Johan Cruyff Arena, and Wimbledon Championship.

Our workforce management platform helps hundreds of businesses and staffing agencies worldwide become more resilient and adaptive to change, resulting in growth, operational excellence, and happy workforces.

The Role

This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and takes pride in building scalable, resilient systems both from an infrastructure and backend engineering perspective.

You will work side-by-side with a hands-on backend/cloud architect to manage and enhance the infrastructure supporting multiple production services and contribute to backend application logic and performance. From infrastructure-as-code to CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and backend service optimization, you'll own and optimize critical systems in a modern AWS/Kubernetes ecosystem.

We value engineers who move fast, simplify complexity, and automate everything.

What You'll Do

• Design, manage, and scale cloud infrastructure using AWS services (EKS, RDS, IAM, networking, etc.)
• Define and manage infrastructure using infra as code tools.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions
• Drive improvements in deployment speed, reliability, and developer experience
• Collaborate with the backend team to design, implement, and optimize scalable APIs and services
• Contribute to performance profiling, debugging, and reliability of Node.js backend applications
• Optimize Kubernetes workloads, including Helm chart management, autoscaling, and policy enforcement
• Implement and evolve observability stacks (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana) to ensure high service reliability
  
  

• 4+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps or Backend Development
• Deep understanding of AWS cloud services and Kubernetes ecosystem
• Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi,Terraform or CDK)
• Solid experience in backend development, particularly in Node.js and TypeScript
• Proficient in Linux systems, containerization (Docker), and debugging networks/systems
• Independent, proactive, and clear communicator with a builder mindse Nice to have:
• Experience working on distributed systems or microservice architectures
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions, Helm, and Prometheus-based monitoring stacks
• Passion for clean, minimal, and well-documented setups
• Background in developing secure, high-performance REST or GraphQL APIs