About Eequ
Eequ is a marketplace and booking platform for learning experiences outside traditional schools and universities. Providers use Eequ to list activities, take bookings and payments, and manage their programmes.
We are the market-leading supplier to local authorities in the UK for council-funded programmes and we also serve thousands of independent providers. Our platform handles bookings, payments, and sensitive data at scale.
Our vision is to build the infrastructure for a more decentralised model of education, where anyone can create, share, and sustain learning experiences – from forest school leaders to sports coaches and artists.
We are a product-led company. Engineering decisions directly shape our reliability, user experience, and ability to scale.
Senior Backend Engineer - UK
We’re hiring a senior backend engineer to join a disciplined, senior team responsible for the platform behind Eequ, where engineers have real ownership and operate with high autonomy.
This is a high-seniority individual contributor role. You will have been the primary owner of production systems, accountable for their design, deployment, and reliability under real-world load. You will be hands-on, responsible for both building and deploying the systems you work on.
What we do
Eequ is the market leader in delivering booking infrastructure for government-funded programmes supporting underserved communities, while also powering a growing commercial marketplace for activities across the UK. By serving both, we’re lighting up a nationwide network of independent providers and helping bring communities together through real-world classes, clubs and events.
What you'll do
Build and operate the backend platform that powers a real marketplace handling bookings, payments, and reporting for thousands of families and providers.
- Design and ship features from API design through database models to deployment
- Make architectural decisions and communicate them clearly to the team
- Own our AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and keep production healthy with observability and alerting
- Lead incident response when things break, find root causes, and drive follow-ups
- Improve database performance, query patterns, and data pipeline as usage grows
Our stack
This stack reflects the platform we build and operate. You're not expected to have deep expertise in everything listed, but you should be comfortable and excited working with these technologies.
- Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript
- MySQL with TypeORM, Redis-backed job queues
- AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, CloudWatch), managed with Terraform
- Monorepo with Turborepo, shared packages, and automated testing
- Github, Slack, Linear
Who you are
- You've shipped and maintained scalable systems handling real-world transactional workloads
- You've owned cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and incident response
- You favor simple, reliable architecture over clever solutions
- You take security seriously, especially around payments and personal data
- You're self-directed and operate with high agency
- You elevate others through thoughtful code reviews and mentorship