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Go Developer MachineMax London, United Kingdom ÂŁ45,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
February 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Are you an enthusiastic developer with experience in Go, looking for the opportunity to join a small but rapidly growing start-up?
MachineMax is a start-up positioned to transform and disrupt heavy industries through the use of IoT and data analytics, with the backing and investment of Shell, BCG Digital Ventures and B Capital.
What does the role involve?
Develop event-driven data pipelines to process IoT data
Design and build a suite of web services to support web and mobile apps
Design a system to accommodate a high volume of IoT sensor data
Develop automated tests for everything going into production
Develop CI/CD pipelines to deploy the different services
What are we looking for?
An experienced software engineer motivated by getting an excellent product into the hands of consumers
A few years of experience working with Go
Willingness to operate across the tech stack, from data engineering, to backend, to devops
Someone happy to collaborate as part of a team
A drive to deliver high quality code with a focus on automated testing
Senior Go Engineer MachineMax London, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
August 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Lead Engineer - Go, Python, AWS
Are you an enthusiastic, experienced engineer with excellent experience in Go or Python, looking for the opportunity to work in a small and growing start-up?
MachineMax is actively hiring a Lead Engineer to join them - a team of around 20 people, they are creating a world first machine analytics service that will deliver, analyse and visualise data to improve machine efficiencies through the use of IoT technologies, Machine Learning methods, and cutting-edge techniques.
This is a true opportunity to shape and build both a product and an engineering culture. Far from your typical start-up, MachineMax has been incubated with BCG Digital Ventures, a fortune 50 corporate partner, and a venture capital firm managed by a Facebook founder.
As a Lead Back End Engineer you'd be joining a tight-knit, collaborative team in a role that is a mixture of hands on coding, mentorship of less experienced developers, and contribution of software development expertise to the rest of the venture team.
Responsibilities:
Develop a range of APIs to serve multiple internal consumers, from customer facing apps to machine learning pipelines
Design and deliver high quality, well-tested code in Go/Python
Communicate with other teams and individuals to plan, coordinate and collaborate
Pitch in where needed as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team
Share technical solutions and product ideas
Champion testability, security, and scalability
Requirements:
Excellent development experience building scalable backend services in Go or Python
Excellent architecture and design skills
Experience working with distributed systems
Analytical skills, with a love for problem solving and troubleshooting
Confidence in deploying production applications using AWS, Google Cloud or similar
Enthusiasm for CI/CD and the benefits you've seen when using this in previous projects
A strong understanding of databases and when to use relational and non-relational
A strong understanding of the fundamentals - data structures, algorithms, OO design and system architecture
Unix/Linux experience
Communication skills, happy to collaborate and talk with the rest of the team
Solid understanding of Agile development methods
Perks & Benefits
Bonus, shares, free gym, pension, subsidised canteen, and nice people!
Senior Software Engineer (EMEA) Zero Hash Remote (London, United Kingdom) $110,000 to $130,000 a year
August 2022
15 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About the Role
Zero Hash is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help architect and build new features, as well as scaling the gateway to Finance 2.0. We are a high performing team looking for an equally ambitious and driven teammate.
The right candidate for this position is detail oriented, deeply technical, and driven. You are eager to learn new technologies and complex systems. You build resiliency and scalability into the platform at every step.
If you're looking to have a massive impact in a high-growth startup in one of the most exciting markets in decades, you will find this role challenging and rewarding in equal measure.
This fully remote role is open to candidates in any EMEA timezone.
#LI-Remote
Responsibilities
Support the companyâs vital business by contributing to the design and
development of software in an event-driven microservices environment
Develop microservices in Golang and Python
Work with platform engineers to setup new services
Respond to production issues and alerts
When necessary, communicate directly with client technical teams
Requirements
5+ years of experience, preferably in the FinTech space
A humble and scrappy get-it-done mindset; youâre resourceful and in your
element going from 0 to 1
Excellent problem solving skills - can troubleshoot complex systems
Deep Proficiency with at least one of Python and Golang and experience with
the other.
Understanding of SQL and database schema design
Comfort with ambiguity; the ability to independently lay out and test clear
hypotheses and solve problems without well-defined direction
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
Bachelors in computer science or equivalent experience
Experience with the SciPy stack, specifically Pandas
Experience at a banking-as-a-service, brokerage-as a service, payment-as-a- service business
An understanding around financial services reconciliation tools
Experience with digital assets
Experience with yield-generating products
Benefits Offered
We believe that the best way to succeed is by having a happy, motivated and healthy team. We offer the following benefits:
Healthcare Insurance: Zero Hash covers roughly 100% of employee premiums as well as a portion of spouse/children
Vision & Dental Insurance
Mental Health and Wellness Program
Work equipment
Equity Ownership and Early Exercise
Maternity & Paternity Leave
Educational budget of $1000
WFH stipend of $500
WeWork All Access Membership
Visa Sponsorship
401k
About Zero Hash
Zero Hash is a B2B embedded infrastructure platform that allows any platform to integrate digital assets natively into their own customer experience quickly and easily (a matter of API endpoints). We power neo-banks, broker-dealers, and payment groups to offer digital asset trading and custody, crypto-backed rewards and round-ups programs as well as yield through staking and DeFi and NFTs.
Our thesis is very simple: every financial services firm will offer digital assets within the next 2 years and will do so through platforms such as Zero Hash. Zero Hash is defining the new FinTech vertical of digital-assets-as-a-service.
Clients include MoneyLion, Wirex, Deserve, MoonPay, Tastytrade. Backed by Point72 Ventures, NYCA, Bain Capital, Tastytrade.
The Zero Hash Culture
All Zero Hash employees are guided by the following characteristics and core principles:
Independence/Ownership - An ability to work autonomously. Join Zero Hash, pitch ideas, and shape the work you do.
Passion - We are innovating quickly and challenging the status quo. We want you to think big, be creative and âmake a difference every day.
Collaborative - A good attitude and respect for others. Weâre teammates, not co-workers. Everything we do is a shared success and equally a shared failure - we talk in terms of âweâ not âmeâ.
Initiative - An ability and passion for learning and asking questions. We will champion you, challenge you and push you to achieve your best - and we expect you to do the same.
Empathy - An ability to listen, respect, and understand your co-workers, customers, and everyone you interact with no matter how different they are to you.
Adaptability - An ability to respond quickly. We are in a fast-paced industry and so we expect you to be creative when solving a new problem and comfortable under pressure.
Transparency - We believe that transparency is critical to empowering everyone to make the best decisions, both the company to its people and vice versa.
Integrity - Integrity creates trust. As both an organization collectively and as individuals, it is our most valuable asset.
Golang Engineer Red Ventures London, United Kingdom $70,000 to $100,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
What You Will Do:
By the time you've reached the end of this paragraph, Red Ventures will have made countless API transactions, all thanks to the expertise of our Engineers. Instead of logging hours chained to a desk, our engineers have an active role in our business. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will build and maintain the RESTful services and FullStack applications and will play a key role in the development of our SaaS-based projects, such as live chat platforms, web analytics suites, live streaming dashboards, and more.
How We Work:
Iterate - Red tape doesnât get in our way. We believe that "Speed Trumps Perfection" so we test and deploy daily.
Autonomy â Aspiring entrepreneurs succeed here because you will have full-ownership over your work from beginning to end.
Collaborate â Better than making the dream work, teamwork makes the code work. Through open work-space, Slack and peer reviews, our teams work together to build amazing solutions.
Innovate â With the belief that âEverything is Written in Pencilâ, we encourage our teams to test new frameworks, learn new languages and challenge the âstatus quoâ to make us better.
What You Need:
2+ years of recent server side experience in technologies such as C#, Golang, PHP, or Node
Experience in front-end technologies such as React, Angular and Polymer
Cloudy with a guarantee of AWS and Docker Containers
Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.
Knowledge of unit-testing (TDD/BDD tool i.e. Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor)
Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs
Building modular and scalable code
A sense of humor and thirst for knowledge
Who We Are:
Red Ventures is a leading digital, consumer-choice platform based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through deeply integrated brand partnerships and consumer-facing assets, Red Ventures connects online customers with products and services across high-growth industries including home services, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures has more than 2,700 employees in offices across the Carolinas, Seattle, Washington, London and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This position will be located in London, England. We are looking for a local engineer to work on our start up team.
Senior Developer Government Digital Service London / Bristol / Manchester, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
February 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Who we are
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.
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.
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
Who you are
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
How you'll be assessed
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.
Things you need to know
You can find out about the application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page.
Senior Back End Engineer Somo London, United Kingdom ÂŁ45,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
April 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About the Job
We are currently looking for a Back-End (Golang) Engineer to work alongside a very exciting client of ours. They are disrupting the global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in company shells.
The role will entail being the back bone of the tech team and it is a unique opportunity to be part of a product with significant market fit as it scales exponentially.
About You
You are huge fan of clean design thinking & architecting, as well as a good communicator with the ability to learn and adapt.
Commercial experience with Golang and Java, along with an understanding of other programming languages such as ES6 & Python.
You will be well versed with database technologies like SQL, noSQL, key-value stores (e.g. mySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, RedisâŚ)
Strong knowledge of cloud technologies such as Google Cloud or AWS & experience with CI/CD
Familiar with unit testing, integration testing, or similar testing frameworks
About Us
Weâre one of the fastest growing digital agencies in the UK, helping the worldâs biggest brands to transform their customer experiences and become the leaders in digital change.
Weâre not just about building digital products. Using our Rapid Actionable Innovation Engine, we take our clients on a journey of digital transformation, identifying and solving their challenges from a truly customer-first perspective.
But we wouldnât be where we are without our people. We hire only the best, the smartest and the nicest folks in digital â those who push boundaries, who think big and are not afraid to be different. There are a few things that make us special, but we like to think our culture is what truly makes the difference. Weâre brave. Weâre innovators. We lead with knowledge. And we make sure everything we do creates success. If You think youâd fit in, apply https://www.somoglobal.com/career/ or drop us an email at workwithus@somoglobal.com
Golang (Go) Backend Engineer Healum London, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ65,000 a year
May 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are Healum - a well funded digital health company on a mission to improve and save 100 million lives across the globe. We believe that everyone should have access to better personalised preventative healthcare and healthcare professionals should be empowered to deliver this experience to their patients. Digital solutions can make this a reality. We build digital products to enable patients to monitor and understand their health, and software that empowers health professionals to achieve better outcomes with their patients. Our single aim is to maximise peopleâs engagement with their health by delighting them with products that make them feel confident, supported and motivated.
We are looking for a Golang Software Engineer based for a full-time position, to help further build Healum's distributed services platform to enhance our value proposition to our users. Are you excited about building petabyte-scale, business-critical, distributed software that helps people to transform their health outcomes? Do you find a peculiar satisfaction in bringing efficiency through intelligent algorithms? Do you enjoy looking at real-time data and incorporating that in to how you build software? The most important characteristic is that you can wear many hats and youâll love getting your hands dirty with planning, scaling, security and testing. Youâll have a passion for playing a lead role in envisioning our platform services and preparing Healum for scale and high availability. You will work closely with the founders to build high quality and scalable systems that are integrated with our products that establish Healum as a leader in providing useful and intelligent solutions for clinicians and their patients.
You have
5+ years experience in software development
Extensive knowledge of Golang and at least one other formal software languages (think compiled software languages C/C+, Java, Scala, Erlang, Clojure). **This is really important**. In your application note - please mention ONE feature about Golang that you like in order to qualify your application for consideration.
Experience in building distributed scalable and fault tolerant systems using micro-services, CEP, MQs.
Strong experience in working with data and multiple datastores both SQL / Non- SQL like relational data stores, document data stores, caches and graph Databases
Experience using go-micro or some other microservices framework and other tools like glide, godep, gorilla mux, revel,
Affinity for smart hacking over process and the ability to take complex technical requirements and breaking them down into smaller execution units.
Ruthless capabilities of documenting major technical details outside of the code and minor ones inside the code.
cognitive abilities to choose smart practices over best practices with a keen eye over security and scalability.
experience in continuously shipping and testing through deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools in an agile development environment.
experience in performance tuning your code and scalability thinking while writing it.
You also have
Deep understanding of distributed systems and service mesh concepts
Familiarity in Linux systems (like Centos) and some experience in scripting, automation and tooling.
Experience working with virtualisation systems (like Docker, Vagrant etc.) VMs and hypervisors (like vsphere, xenserver etc.)
Experience working with orchestration tools (like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm etc.) and container registeries (GCE, Docker hub etc.)
Crazy attention to detail - sleepless nights because you found a bug that you couldn't resolve at 5:44 pm.
Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing, unit testing, continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a production environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.
Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members, customers and partners.
As one of our first team members, a typical day might include some of the following
Write, test, debug and ship code and gather feedback on scale, performance, security to incorporate back into the platform.
Work with the founders to identify complex technical problems and solve them.
Work with the product design and client experience development team to support them with scalable services
Feed into the overall mission and vision of the Healum's platform over the period of coming months and years.
Inspire us with latest technical trends and frameworks especially in programming languages, data stores, security and create some of your own.
Work with the infrastructure team to squeeze every ounce of efficiency from our existing systems.
To land this gig, you need...
Quality experience in building large scale distributed systems, a formal degree in computer science, physics or mathematics. Background and expertise in software development, micro services, API integrations, data analytics, security and huge scale thinking!
Would you like to make a lasting impact in peopleâs lives and change them for better? Then get in touch.
Absolutely NO recruitment agencies or outsourcing companies as we work with our PSL only.
Interview Process
If you are interested in this role email us at hello@healum.com with your CV, and one feature about Golang that you like and why!
For us, digital transformation is constant - not a one-off event. Itâs our obsession. And itâs how we forever evolve our technology to improve the lives of our customers. We continually experiment with ways to make our journeys more intuitive, simple and enjoyable. And weâre constantly testing and trialing ways to give customers faster access to our services, more flexibility - and the richest, most rewarding experience.
All you need is the right mindset and the desire to help us create award-winning digital experiences â we work at pace, we love ideas and collaborate on agile project.
About the role
We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Engineer (Innovation) to join our innovation team in London, bringing with you a broad range of experiences and a passion for modern development technologies and practices. As an Innovation Software Engineer you'll be part of innovation team, building and testing great products that delight, transform and have a revolutionary impact on our business.
Working as part of the Innovation team and collaborating with teams across the Digital department to solve business problems - internal and external; by coming up with creative solutions and employing future technologies that can have revolutionary impact on our bottom line.
Your key skills and experience will ideally include:
Strong development skills in Python or Java. Familiarity with Scala, Go and Clojure is a plus.
Experience with stream pipelines and data store technologies (nosql, wide column and graph). We are Currently using Cassandra, Kafka, Amazon dynamoDB, Redis, Neo4j and Mysql.
Experience in Agile (Scrum) development.
Proven experience working in a continuous integration environment and prefer collective code ownership.
Familiarity with high availability distributed systems, SOA and RESTful messaging.
Bullet proof system design with solid tests
Experience working at scale with distributed Big Data technologies.
Someone with an interest in AI first software engineering and data
Experience with, and desire for, high quality and reliable service development
Organised and pro-active, with strong attention to detail
A natural team player, who enjoys working collaboratively with colleagues
A highly motivated self-starter with a can-do attitude, flexible and adaptable, with a âcan doâ approach and solid problem-solving skills even in the face of demanding deadlines
Focused on delivery, with a passion for quality and innovation
Ongoing contributor and passion for learning and adopting cutting edge technologies
Interest or experience in NLP, ML, disambiguation strategies and semantic approaches are plus points
Mentor the team and inspire experimentation, who facilitates and encourage training.
Established as a technology leader, working closely in cross functional teams and encompassing different technologies into solutions.
Nurture and encourage innovative ideas to problem solving, empower the team with the current line of thinking to produce the most cost effective solutions.
Moving on with new ideas to help find solutions with the emphasis on how can technology or a new creative method help make improvements.
Senior Software Engineer Paddle London, United Kingdom / Remote (Europe) ÂŁ75,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
April 2022
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What do we do?
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, weâre a Merchant of Record for our customers, taking away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It's faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.
We have over 230+ talented employees serving over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, youâll be helping to drive our product and engineering department forward, working on different parts of the Paddle ecosystem and helping our Software Sellers sell their products on a platform they trust and rely on.
Our Engineering Department is split into 8 cross functional Product teams, along with an SRE and Data team.
Our Product teams are made up of an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager and between 4 - 8 engineers (mix of backend and frontend), depending on the demands of the team.
You are empowered to use the right tech for the job and youâll have the freedom to input into what technology and tooling are used and educate the rest of your colleagues accordingly.
Our Tech
Go for our new services
PHP and Laravel for our legacy system
Docker in production and local development
gRPC for internal services running on AWS Fargate
AWS lambda for event-based services
AWS SQS for our asynchronous message queues
MySQL and DynamoDB for persistent data storage
Redis for key/value store
Terraform and Cloudformation for infrastructure management
What you'll do
Develop high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands users per month
Engineer high-performance background workers for consuming queues
Practise DevOps, youâre responsible for getting your code to production and supporting it
Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
Help design a stable platform to support phenomenal growth
Mentoring and coaching other engineers
Play a part in an agile team, either kanban or scrum as needed
We'd love to hear from you if
You have a development background with Go
You have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
You enjoy collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
You proactively find ways to improve the code and team processes
You have a strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
You take pride in what you build
You are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!
Why youâll love working at Paddle
We are a diverse team of 230 (and growing!) people who care deeply about enabling a great culture which is inclusive no matter your background. We celebrate our diverse group of talented employees and we pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative, friendly and respectful culture.
We live and breathe our values, which are:
*** Exceptional Together
* Execute with impact
* Better than Yesterday**
We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, pension plans, private healthcare, a health & wellbeing platform and coaching sessions.
We are a âdigital-firstâ company, which means you can work remotely or from an amazing office if you prefer, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We love our casual dress code, annual company retreats and much more. We truly invest in learning and will help you with your personal development, from constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning stipend to regular internal and external training.
Equal opportunities
We believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. Our office is wheelchair friendly and we are a family-friendly employerâ.
Backend Engineer (All Levels) GetGround Hammersmith, London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ100,000 a year
July 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
GetGround is developing the infrastructure for a global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in companies. Trillions of dollars of assets are tied in inefficient illiquid markets - think property, ships, factory machinery & infrastructure to name a few.
Enveloping an asset in a company unlocks liquidity by enabling the right legal basis for asset ownership, governance and exchange. However companies, one of humanity's greatest inventions, are stuck in the past. We are digitising and automating the company, through:
Programmatic incorporation and administration
e-wallet financial infrastructure
Automated accounting incorporating machine learning techniques and
A secondary market platform built for scale
To start, we're tackling UK private residential investment property, with ÂŁ1.3 trillion of stock and ÂŁ30-50 billion in transactions a year.
Backend Engineer | Hammersmith, London
A Backend Engineer at GetGround works on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We primarily use Golang, deployed on Google Cloud. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of building a product with significant market fit as it scales exponentially. Beyond strong traditional technical skills, weâre huge fans of clean design thinking and architecting, as well as communication and an ability to learn and adapt.
The role comes with immense scope for growth and impact in a zero-ego, zero-BS environment. Weâre building a team that works together to solve hard problems that will enable us to achieve our mission to make assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible.
In this role, you will develop:
Technical rigour through collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thorough refinement processes. We want hackers and painters!
Simple, clear and concise communication and documentation of technical ideas
A challenger mindset - to implement new patterns and libraries, and to improve readability and efficiency
What you will do
Working in a cross functional, collaborative team, you will participate in the entire application lifecycle, from architecting to development, testing and review
You will design and write clean documentation
You will work closely with product to design functionality
You will collaborate with Frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
You will provide training and support to internal teams. We believe in constant learning and growing - everybody learns from each other
You will build reusable code and libraries for future use
The experience you will have
Solid familiarity with programming languages such as (in order of desirability) Golang, C++, Java, Rust, ES6, Python
A passion for good design and architecture, including in the context of large-scale web applications
Systematic problem solving approach and knowledge of algorithms, data structures and complexity analysis
Experience with unit testing, integration testing, or similar testing frameworks
A passion for good documentation
Experience with database technologies like SQL, noSQL, key-value stores (e.g. mySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, RedisâŚ)
Experience with cloud technologies such as Google Cloud or AWS.
A desire to build large-scale technology that can change the world for the better
About us
Hello, we are GetGround. We have been in stealth mode building amazing products to disrupt a marketplace. We are building a new global network for trading assets, starting with residential property. We have just secured Series A funding and are on a significant growth trajectory that has the confidence of QED, Mosaic as well as several prestigious private investors.
Our Co-Founder and CEO Moubin qualified as a Doctor and went on to have a successful career at McKinsey and private equity house, APAX. Moubin started GetGround with his brother and our CTO, Misrab. Misrab is a Stanford Computer Scientist that led the scaling of the Gojek Data Science team in Asia.
We are proud of how far we have come since 2018, but humbled and excited at what there is still to achieve. Our values sit at the core of everything we do - pursuit of excellence, feedback obsessed, No BS and healthy egos.
If you are great talent, but working somewhere where you don't feel recognised, developed, rewarded or included, your next home could be GetGround. Join us!
Please note, whilst we have flexible working, this role will be office based when we are able to return to the office.
Diversity & inclusion at GetGround
GetGround encourages applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are focussed on and committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
GetGround benefits
Competitive salary + excellent stock options
Competitive health, dental benefits
Various discounts/benefits via Perks at Work
Cooked lunch on Fridays from a local restaurant when we are in the office
Health & dental benefits
20 days PTO + 1 day off per month as a mental health day
Support for conferences and professional learning & development