Platform Engineers work collaboratively with the engineering and project teams alongside producers, designers and engineers. In this role you will; work on the development of backend microservices in collaboration with the engineering team and support the team through maintaining our continuous integration and deployment processes.
We design and build services, platforms and products for our customers and your role will be focused on building platforms and APIs for the team to build on. We alsoâ research, prototype and build our own products as part of our R&D process - youâll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies you are most interested in.
What you will be doing
Building backend microservices and APIs (Go, Serverless / Cloud Functions, Node).
Supporting the team with CI/CD automation (i.e. creating staging environments so our frontend engineers can test their code).
Helping to scope and define effort for infrastructure requirements on a variety of different projects â from CMSâs to large scale eCommerce projects.
Day-to-day management and monitoring of our GCP infrastructure.
Keeping up to date with and identifying suitable new technology-related trends, techniques, tools and methodologies.
2+ years experience in a digital agency, startup or product team.
Strong programming skills with development experience and expertise in at least one language (preferably Go).
Experience setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with scalable cloud deployments (GCP ideally but any other cloud platform like AWS or Azure).
Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, Cloud Datastore/Firestore).
Familiarity with test driven development .
Deep familiarity with Linux/Unix.
Nice to have
Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and container orchestration technologies.
Experience with infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform).
Knowledge of secure coding practices including OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
Familiarity with security auditing (Web Security Scanner, Burp Suite).
The mindset we are looking for
What youâll get out of it
Weâre a small company and a tight team - we work collaboratively, we share load, we have deep specialist experience but often blend roles.
Weâre also a tech start-upââ ââ researching, prototyping and building our own products as part of our R&D process. Youâll be actively involved in this with opportunities to explore technologies youâre most interested in.
We pay fair London wages, encourage decent amounts of holiday and support remote and flexible working. To make sure our staff are as safe as possible during the pandemic, we are all working from home, with mature systems and processes in place that make this as easy as possible. In 2021 weâll be making fresh decisions about how and where we work. It will be flexible, youâll be allowed to work from home if you like it and there will be alternatives if you donât.
About Us
Perkbox is a platform that provides a unique employee experience, enriching the personal and working life of employees. It offers a suite of products including access to best in class Perks, Perkbox Medical, Perkbox Recognition and Perkbox Insights. It serves companies such as Nandoâs, Caffe Nero, Krispy Kreme and Levi Strauss & Co. Headquartered in London, Perkbox has offices in Sheffield, Paris and Australia and are on a mission to improve the employee experience at a Global level.
Weâre an ambitious, fast paced scale up where things evolve all the time. The success of our mission depends on your high expectations, your autonomy and your proactivity. We donât have a rule book and thatâs why we always strive to work better together. Weâre up for a challenge to solve problems that are bigger than us, and we promise you one thing for sure - you will never stop growing here.
Get a taste for Perkbox here
About The Role
Our mission is simple: take our leading product and transform it into a global SaaS product. Working in a small team of developers you'll be evolving our platform and infrastructure by developing microservices, creating tools, building APIs, writing tests, integrating systems and utilising AWS cutting-edge features to enhance the platform experience for a global user base.
You will need to hit the ground running in getting a measure of our platform and service architecture with support from our Product & Engineering teams and solutions architects. You will be working across teams to not only deliver code, but also to take a leading role in the design of services and implementations. You will understand the value of an MVP and know how to efficiently scale back functionality to meet user impact or time-bound requirements whilst maintaining stability.
On a day to day basis you will:
About You
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The cherry on the cake...
Are there any benefits besides the salary?
When you think of Perkbox, you probably think about all our free perks â like free coffee from CaffĂŠ Nero, free cinema tickets, gym discounts, birthday boxes, our employee assistance programme (EAP), and access to an online GP.
And yes â everyone who works here gets all the same great perks we give to our customers. But don't go thinking that's everything. Our culture goes well beyond the perks we're famous for!
We're also all about celebrating anniversaries and recognising your biggest achievements. We stoke the fires of your curiosity with external speakers and generous learning budgets. We practice transparency with regular 'Let's Talk' sessions from the senior leadership team. We take the time to listen to every single employee and use your feedback to make improvements to our company culture. We support working parents, provide pension plans â are you ready for this one? We're a dog-friendly office too!
It's all about delivering a work-life balance that lets you live your very best life.
About TreeCard
TreeCard is building the leading green finance brand. Weâre powered by Ecosia, the search engine that plants trees with 15M monthly active users.
Our first product, TreeCard, is a free top-up debit card that puts 80% of profits directly towards responsible reforestation investments. Weâve signed up over 100,000 users to our waiting list in the first month since announcement (breaking all of Revolut, Monzo and Curve's launch records). Our product sticks, with 40% of all sign ups being referred by a friend or family. Weâre planning to launch in Q1 of 2021.
Over the coming months, we will be expanding to offer a suite of green services, from payments, to lending, to investments.
Lead Backend Engineer
We are looking for an engineer to help us build out the backend that powers TreeCard.
You will be responsible for developing the backend platform from scratch, spanning a range of the tech stack, from integrating with our banking partners, to API architecture and design for our mobile client, to the execution of new microservices that the business will depend on like risk management, fraud detection, and big data analytics.
You will be delivering a product that will become a core part of our customerâs financial lives, and used daily by hundreds of thousands of these customers. As one of the earliest employees, you will have a huge amount of responsibility over the product and company, and will be given the opportunity to hire out a team to support you as TreeCard grows.
Requirements
Seldon is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team. We are focused on making it easy for machine learning models to be deployed and managed at scale in production. We provide Cloud Native products that run on top of Kubernetes and are open-core with several successful open source projects including Seldon Core, Alibi:Explain and Alibi:Detect. We also contribute to open source projects under the Kubeflow umbrella including KFServing.
About the role Design and build scalable machine learning solutions on top of the open source and enterprise Seldon products. Working on bring the Explainable AI and ML Monitoring available in the Alibi projects into the enterprise products for general use.
Essential skills A degree or higher level academic background in a scientific or engineering subject. Familiarity with linux based development. At least 2 years of experience in industry or academia showing completed projects.
Core skills (The role will be focused on these skills so we would expect existing experience or a demonstrable desire to learn these) Experience with GoLang and Python Experience with Kubernetes and the ecosystem of Cloud Native tools. Experience using machine learning tools in production. Bonus skills (Any of these will be of great interest to us) A broad understanding of data science and machine learning. Understanding of explainable AI or machine learning monitoring in production Familiarity with Kubeflow, MLFlow or Sagemaker Familiarity with python tools for data science
About our tech stack Some of our high profile technical projects: We are core authors and maintainers of Seldon Core, the most popular Open Source model serving solution in the Cloud Native (Kubernetes) ecosystem We built and maintain the black box model explainability tool Alibi We are co-founders of the KFServing project, and collaborate with Microsoft, Google, IBM, etc on extending the project We are core contributors of the Kubeflow project and meet on several workstreams with Google, Microsoft, RedHat, etc on a weekly basis We are part of the SIG-MLOps Kubernetes open source working group, where we contribute through examples and prototypes around ML serving We run the largest Tensorflow meetup in London And much more đ
Some of the technologies we use in our day-to-day: Go is our primary language for all-things backend infrastructure including our Kubernetes Operator, and our new GoLang Microservice Orchestrator) Python is our primary language for machine learning, and powers our most popular Seldon Core Microservices wrapper, as well as our Explainability Toolbox Alibi We leverage the Elastic Stack to provide full data provenance on inputs and outputs for thousands of models in production clusters Metrics from our models collected using Prometheus, with custom Grafana integrations for visualisation and monitoring Our primary service mesh backend leverages the Envoy Proxy, fully integrated with Istio, but also with an option for Ambassador We leverage gRPC protobufs to standardise our schemas and reach unprecedented processing speeds through complex inference graphs We use React.js for our all our enterprise user products and interfaces Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run all of our core cloud native technology stack
Benefits Share options to align you with the long-term success of the company. Exciting phase of fast-paced start-up challenges with an ambitious team and unlimited potential for professional growth. Access to discounted lunches, gyms, shopping and cinema tickets. Healthcare benefits. Cycle To Work Scheme.
Logistics Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task, and 2-3 hours of final interview (carried out virtually). We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions. We might design a system together on a whiteboard, the same way we often work together, but we wonât make you write code on one. Our recruitment process has an average length of 3 weeks.
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is part of the Cabinet Office. We lead the digital transformation of the UK government so that it works better for everyone.
Following our Government Design Principles, we deliver platforms, standards and digital services to help departments transform how they work and meet the needs of their users.
Our work is user-focused, dynamic and forward-looking, making our organisation an exciting and innovative place to work.
Find out more at the GDS Blog or the Design in Government blog.
Youâll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. Youâll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. Youâll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or more projects. Above all, youâll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. Also, as part of the Data Standards Authority youâll lead by example adopting and promoting data standards.
To learn more about what Developers do in government please review the DDaT Capability Framework
As a Senior Developer in GDS youâll:
lead the implementation of our central API catalogue.
shape the technical solution of a federated API catalogue
support wider technical needs from the Data Standards Authority and across Data and Innovation
take responsibility for solving complex issues, and for the quality of the code produced
work in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure our software puts user needs first
build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team, both developers and non-developers
act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences
be involved in helping recruit developers and, where appropriate, helping sift and interview
Weâre interested in people who:
have experience in back-end development, with detailed knowledge of Ruby
understand software design principles
research and learn new programming tools and techniques
take a systematic approach to solving problems
have experience of using testing to validate solutions
understand agile environments and version control
understand web security and accessibility
have an awareness of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, Mac OS
have experience working with web technologies
In the Civil Service, we use our Success Profiles. For each role we advertise we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. We will be looking at your experience, career history and achievements that are relevant to the specific job role.
For this role we will be assessing your ability, strength, experience, technical/specialist skills and behaviours, the following behaviours are the most relevant:
working together
changing and improving
making effective decisions
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
You can find out about the application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page.
We're bringing peace of mind and financial security to all modern families, in one holistic and engaging platform âď¸
We offer life insurance to our users alongside a suite of free products to help them with the life and after-life admin. This includes the ability to write your will for free with our online will writer. We're creating a single platform for users to manage all of their families life admin, and protect the things that matter most to them.
What are we looking for?
As we expand our engineering team, we are looking for an experienced back-end developer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can help us build and scale our product beyond the MVP. Currently we've built a web application, but next on our radar is to build a mobile app.
You will be one of the first hires of the company and working closely with our CTO and the co-founding team. Since we are an early-stage startup, you will have more responsibilities than in a regular role and play a large part in shaping the next features of the application.
Currently we're all working remotely, but post-covid we're looking for someone who is willing to commute to our London office once or twice a week.
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What we offer
Weâre looking for a Backend Engineer to join our TechOps squad at Monzo.
Our TechOps squad is primarily responsible for making sure everyone at Monzo has all of the tools they need to do a great job. That means managing all of our devices (predominantly running Mac and Chrome OS), managing our G-Suite domains, providing 1:1 support to Monzonauts across the business, and much much more.
A big contributor to the success TechOps have had to date is the way weâve embedded engineers in the squad, meaning weâve been able to automate away a lot of the manual work traditionally associated with a TechOps squad.
This has allowed us to move quickly, achieve an incredible ratio of TechOps people to total employees, and reap the benefits of being able to hire people all across the world without friction.
Youâll help us solve problems such as:
Youâll be a backend engineer in the squad. Some of the projects youâll be involved in might include:
Youâll work closely with TechOps generalists and engineers from around the business to tackle some of the challenges mentioned above, working at the intersection between Security, People and TechOps to make sure weâre moving forwards together.
Security, scalability and how we continue to support the services youâre building should always be front of mind.
Youâll also have the opportunity to coach and mentor others in the squad on engineering best practices. We want to empower everyone in the squad to automate away the low-value manual work, and youâll be key to unlocking this potential alongside other engineers in the squad.
At Monzo weâre aiming to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal đ
Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds
We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, weâd love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.
We are actively creating an equitable environment for all of our engineers to thrive
Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. We provide a sponsorship framework in Engineering for women and people of colour; all of our leaders are trained on privilege awareness and we are creating partnerships with organisations dedicated to supporting underrepresented groups. You can read more in our 2020 Diversity and Inclusion report.
We encourage an open and transparent working environment
You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripeâs example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We contribute to open source software as much as possible. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!
Monzo works in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams
We have around 150 engineers out of roughly 1,400 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so youâll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.
At Monzo you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology.
We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:
Our product squads are truly cross-functional.
This role is all about collaborating across disciplines to test hypotheses and make a difference to customers. As a product backend engineer youâll work in a squad alongside product managers, marketers, user researchers, designers, mobile engineers, web engineers, data analysts, business analysts, writers and more!
Salary is around ÂŁ69,000 - ÂŁ116,000 plus stock options and other benefits.
We can help you relocate to London & we can sponsor visas.
This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working (with ad hoc meetings in London once COVID is over).
We have payroll set up in three countries: the UK, Ireland, and France. Right now, we can only hire people who work from those countries and weâll keep this updated with new ones as we expand and are able to hire from more places đ
We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
Diversity and inclusion is a priority for us â if we want to solve problems for people around the world, our team has to represent our customers. So we need to attract the best talent and create an environment that supports and includes them. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our blog.
If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance.
Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task and call to discuss it, and 2-3 hours of onsite interviews that can be conducted via hangouts as well. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions. We might design a system together on a whiteboard, the same way we often work together, but we wonât make you write code on one.
Equal Opportunity Statement
At Monzo, embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone.
We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
https://monzo.com/careers/#benefits
Apply ⎘ Copy Link ↗ Visit LinkThought Machine is solving one of the biggest problems in banking. Since launching in 2014, our mission has been to liberate banks from outdated, legacy technology which stifles their ability to innovate. Thought Machineâs core product Vault is a cloud native, core banking engine built to run any type of bank - from established Tier 1 banks all the way to new challenger banks.
To move closer to achieving our mission, we are looking for highly talented individuals to join the fast growing team. With a founding team drawn from Google, we have a deep culture of engineering excellence and we believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.
Thought Machine was recognised on LinkedInâs Top Startups List (2019) and named in Fintech 50 (2019). We pride ourselves on having an excellent internal culture, where we take cultural fit as important as technical fit when we make new hires. At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best technical work in the industry.
Back End Engineering is a key role within Thought Machine as Back End Engineers lead the development of Thought Machineâs Vault product. We pride ourselves in excellence in this role, adopting the best practices in continuous deployment monorepo style development.
While development at Thought Machine is fast paced, you will be expected to develop code to a high standard and production ready state.
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Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people's everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description.
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Rebank is building the financial operating system for high-growth companies. The way companies grow has evolved over the last decade; how they manage their finances hasn't.
Our customers used to rely on error-prone spreadsheets and outdated internal processes but with Rebank they can manage their bank accounts, easily send funds across the world, and access analytics and insights all from a single login.
This is the first step towards a new kind of banking and we have the backing of great investors including Y Combinator to help us achieve that.
Here's how we work
We believe that deep technical expertise and an understanding of the problems we solve for our customers are equally important. We choose the right technology for the job because we understand how it works and how it benefits our customers. You'll be joining as an early employee so you will have significant autonomy over your role and influence in how we grow the company.
Currently, our tech stack utilises the following
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Culture at Rebank
đŠđ˝âđŹ Learn from users, build what they want
Be inquisitive about the problems we're solving for customers and how it impacts their day. A deeper understanding of our users helps us focus on building the best experiences.
đŻ Be product focused
Align user outcomes with business outcomes. Err on the side of risky ideas with high potential. Take pride in creating beautiful product workflows.
ážE Plan collaboratively, execute independently
Collaborate on ideas. Take action early and learn as you go. Work with a high degree of autonomy.
We're an equal opportunity employer (and very pet friendly).
Working pattern -Â Flexible working, Full-time, (Job share / Part-time options)
Salary -Â ÂŁ29,017 - ÂŁ41,149
Package / Benefits - please follow apply link for further details
APPLICATION DEADLINE - 5th November 2019
As a Back-end Software Engineer, you will be a key part of the API and Data team within the Digital Publishing division of the Office for National Statistics. The successful Developer will share responsibility for the ONS Website, Developer sites, Dashboards and CMS. Youâll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team of front-end engineers, back-end engineers, site reliability engineers, interaction designers, user researchers, service manager, product owner and performance analyst.
Tech Stack
Our current back-end technology stack includes Go, Java, Python, Apache Kafka, MongoDB and Neo4j.  You will be part of a team with a range of skills and programming languages, so we dont expect you to know all of these.
More details available - for full information on the role, and to progress, please click APPLY to be taken to the CivilServiceJobs website. Â
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the advertising recruiter, Darren Weeks on 01633 651628 or darren.weeks@ons.gov.uk