Senior Backend Engineer (£60k-£80k) at Carno

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Job Title

Senior Backend Engineer (Laravel)

Salary

£60,000-£80,000

Company Description

Carno is a seed-stage London-based startup building the operating system for the UK's renewable energy installation industry. Their platform streamlines workflows for heat pump installers, cutting administrative time by up to 90% and powering thousands of installations to accelerate home decarbonisation at scale across the country.

Job Description

Join a lean founding team of four as a Senior Backend Engineer to own the architecture of a mission-critical Laravel platform. You will design multi-tenant SaaS systems, build event-driven pipelines, and develop scientific calculation engines for building thermodynamics. This high-impact role directly influences the UK's transition to low-carbon electric heating.

Location

London, UK (Remote)

Why this role is remarkable

• High ownership at a seed-stage company where your architectural decisions define the platform's foundation rather than maintaining legacy designs.
• Direct daily collaboration with the founding team, including the CTO, CEO, and CPO, in a fast-moving, high-autonomy environment.
• Tangible real-world impact by building software that accelerates the deployment of renewable energy and home decarbonisation across the UK.

What You Will Do

• Build and maintain a complex multi-tenant SaaS architecture using Laravel, ensuring strict tenant isolation and sophisticated per-organisation business logic.
• Design and implement asynchronous queue pipelines and event-driven patterns using Redis pub/sub to handle high-frequency data workflows.
• Develop and manage shared internal Composer packages and integrate third-party property data APIs to power the core installation workflow.

The ideal candidate

• 3+ years of professional Laravel engineering experience with proven expertise in building multi-tenant SaaS and managing per-tenant databases.
• Strong fundamentals in modern infrastructure, including AWS (EC2, RDS, S3), Docker containerization, and managing CI/CD pipelines across multiple repositories.
• Proficient in security best practices, including OAuth 2.1, RBAC, and secret management, with a solid grasp of authorisation boundaries in multi-tenant environments.

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