Backend Software Engineer

About Intermedia

Are you looking for a company where YOUR VOICE is heard? Where can you MAKE A DIFFERENCE? Do you
THRIVE in a FAST-PACED work environment? Do you wake every morning EXCITED to work with GREAT
PEOPLE and create SUCCESS TOGETHER? Then Intermedia is the place for you.
Intermedia has established itself as a leading provider of cloud communications and collaboration tech that allows
companies to connect better. We have a strong track record of growth, profitability, and creating an environment
where everyone matters. Everyone. While we are fast-paced and admittedly a bit intense, we promise that you won’t
be bored. You will find Intermedia is a place where you can indulge your passion for creating and supporting great
cloud technology. What’s more, we always look to promote from within and have many employees who have been
with us 10, 15, and 20+ years!

Culture at Intermedia is built on teamwork and transparency. We hold each other accountable and always have each other’s back!

While primarily remote, this role requires occasional visits to the Bristol office or London.
Are you ready to make your mark? 

About the Role 

In this role, you will design and build the backend services and capabilities that enable users to create, configure, test and deploy. 
You will work closely with frontend engineers, AI/ML engineers, product managers, UX
designers, and platform teams to bring Agent Studio capabilities from concept through
production. You will develop the services behind agent configuration, orchestration, integrations,
testing, deployment, and lifecycle management while ensuring the platform meets enterprise
expectations for performance, reliability, security, and scalability.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced backend engineer who enjoys solving complex
technical problems, building extensible products, and creating intuitive ways for users.

• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs 

• Build capabilities that enable users to create, configure, test and deploy. 
• Build APIs and service interfaces that enable intuitive user experiences and reliable interaction between frontend and backend services.
• Develop mechanisms for managing configurations, versions, state, context, tools, permissions, and other runtime components.
• Build services that enable to securely interact with Intermedia products, enterprise
applications, APIs, data sources, and external services.
• Collaborate closely with frontend engineers and UX teams to translate complex capabilities into intuitive product experiences.
• Work with product managers to translate customer needs and requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to technical design decisions for agent orchestration, configuration
management, workflow execution, integrations, and supporting backend services.
• Build capabilities that allow users to test, evaluate, troubleshoot, and refine before and after deployment.
• Develop reliable mechanisms for handling execution, errors, retries, timeouts, and other runtime conditions.
• Design appropriate controls for authentication, authorization, permissions, and secure
access to tools, models, services, and data.
• Design for scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and fault tolerance across services.
• Write high-quality, readable, testable code that follows established engineering standards
and best practices.
• Participate in code and design reviews and contribute to strong engineering and quality
practices across the team.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across backend services, workflows and integrations.
• Build monitoring, logging, testing, and observability into production services to support
reliable agent execution and product operations.
• Collaborate with DevOps, and infrastructure teams to support reliable deployment and operation.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and engineering approaches related backend engineering, and distributed systems.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives that enhance product quality, reliability,
developer productivity, and engineering efficiency.

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical
field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 4–7 years of professional software engineering experience, with demonstrated
experience developing backend applications and services.
• Strong proficiency in one or more backend programming languages and associated
frameworks.
• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs, microservices, or other serviceoriented applications.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, data structures, algorithms, and
distributed systems concepts.
• Experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• Experience building and supporting scalable, reliable production applications.
• Experience integrating applications with internal and external APIs, services, and data
sources.
• Experience designing backend services that support complex, interactive product
experiences.
• Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure and cloud-native
application architectures.
• Familiarity with automated testing, CI/CD, source control, and modern software
development practices.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, observability, and production support practices.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to independently investigate and resolve
complex technical issues.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment where technologies, product requirements,
and technical approaches are evolving rapidly.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across
backend, frontend, AI/ML, Product, UX, and platform teams.
• Working understanding of Agile development methodologies and frameworks.