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The Tyk API Management platform is helping to drive the connected world and power new products and services. We’re changing the way that organisations connect any number of their systems and services.Whether internal, external, public or highly encrypted systems, Tyk helps businesses drive value across the retail, finance, telecoms, healthcare, or media industries (to name just a few!)
If you’ve banked online, used an app to check the news, or perhaps even driven a connected car, API’s, and by extension, Tyk, make that possible. Founded in 2015 with offices in London, Atlanta and Singapore, we have many thousands of users of our B2B platform across the globe. Brands using Tyk range from Lotte, Bell, Dominos, Starbucks, to RBS and Societe Generale. We have a varied user base hailing from every continent – even Antarctica.
Our Mission
Tyk is on a mission to connect every system in the world. We’ve started by building an API Management platform.
Total flexibility, default remote, radical responsibility
We offer unlimited paid holidays and remote working from anywhere in the world, for everyone, Why? Tyk was founded on the principle of offering flexibility and autonomy to our employees, we believe this allows our employees to achieve their best results. It also means we can build the best possible team, location and working hours are no barrier.
If this sounds like an environment that you believe could work for you then read on to find out more.
The role
You will be responsible for designing and building out compelling and quality solutions for our Universal Data Graph (UDG) product. You will work closely with Product Managers, Technical Leads, Engineers, QA experts, and UX Designers to shape and deliver high quality and high efficiency solutions for Universal Data Graph. You will be expected to input into UDG strategy, and be a keen advocate of continuous improvement concepts in our software engineering lifecycle – continuous testing, continuous integration, linting etc.
You will be a talented line manager, with experience in running teams, mentoring junior engineers, and leading a culture of empowerment and constant process and standards improvement.
https://tyk.io/docs/universal-data-graph/
Here’s what you’ll be getting up to:
* Contributing to strategic direction of UDG, working with the Senior Product
* Manager to suggest new ideas or challenge existing strategy
* Developing our event driven GraphQL (GQL) subscriptions product
* Building data connectors and resolvers to myriad datasources and which can be transformed into a GQL end point
* Working with our UX team to create highly efficient and beautiful solutions which leverage no-code principles and ‘drag and drop’ ease of use
* Iterating and improving our federation solution for dividing GQL implementation over multiple back end data sources
* Designing and delivering analytics solutions for GQL and UDG
* Advocating and driving a continuous improvement agenda for how we engineer – driving continuous testing, continuous integration, test coverage, linting etc and driving your teams to adopt the same mindset
* Responsible for ensuring your teams feature to debt ratio remains healthy
* Working with the Product Manager to architect solutions to future roadmap items or new capabilities, using well accepted design patterns that allow for future scaling
* Working with DevSecOps to embed a security first approach to our product iteration and ensure what is released is safe for our customers
* Takes responsibility for the quality, maintainability and flexibility of code written by your team
* A leader of ensuring we write automated tests for every new capability and bug fix and ensure this culture permeates.
* Have a clear focus on creating , coding, and testing solutions for non functional use cases – technical debt reduction, documentation improvement, security, stability, bug fix
* Driving your teams adherence to Tyk coding standards – ensuring test cases are written, ensuring documentation is written, driving high levels of automation in our pipeline process, ensuring tests are passing before merge
* Driving your teams adherence to Scrum process , being an example in working to definition of ready / done, improving estimation, documentation first etc
* Be a key shaper and contributor to our continuous improvement agenda – be it the clarity of our user stories, how we estimate, or how we ensure continuous testing, we expect this role to be advocate of continuous improvement
* Play an active part in our Scrum process, helping to ensure tickets are well groomed and planned for the next sprint
* Line management of a small team – mentoring, improving, leading performance reviews, assisting in objective setting, and reviewing progress against our progression matrix
* Leads the drive to embed and run a DevOps culture where we have a clear focus on release engineering quality and automation
Here’s what we’re looking for:
Experience:
Strong backend engineering experience in Go
Strong understanding and experience of GraphQL
Working experience with Scrum
Strong understanding of integration principles and meshing myriad data sources into one
Expert in building brilliant software engineering process with high levels of automation
Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
Experience of influencing and guiding product strategies through technical knowledge
Line and team management and mentorship – creating outcome focused teams, accountability, thirst for improvement, and culture of innovation and empowerment
Deep working understanding of DevOps best practice, particularly in relation to release engineering
Good working experience of security first software development
Experience with software engineering best practices (e.g. unit testing, code reviews, design documentation)
Experience with Redis and MongoDB
Skills:
Very organized and exceptional attention to detail
Passion for continuously improvement software delivery lifecycle
Happy to input into and challenge product strategies based on technical knowledge
Strong communication skills
Hands on development experience scaling complex systems
Considerable backend engineering experience
Familiarity with Kubernetes or other orchestration tools
Experience building applications in Go, C, C++
Passionate about working on and contributing to Open Source
Here’s why you should join us:
Everyone has unlimited paid holiday.
We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all.
Generous maternity and paternity leave
Company retreats
We all share the same vision – we value authenticity, respect, responsibility, independence, honesty, diversity and inclusion and most importantly treating others how you wish to be treated. We look for like-minded people who bring their personalities to work everyday, strive to achieve their personal goals and who are willing to challenge the way we do things, why? – to make what we do even better!
Our values tell the story of Tyk – here’s how:
It’s ok to screw up!
We’ve found that it’s often the ‘stupid’ or unexpected ideas that turn out to be the successful ones – so try it, at least we can say we have!
The only stupid idea, is the untested one!
It’s in our DNA – starting a business with founders 12 hours apart, giving our gateway away for free – sure, we did that, and we’d do it again!
Trust starts with you – make it count!
Trust is a two-way street – instil it from day one!
Assume best intent!
We have each other’s back – we’re all on the same team. Think before you speak or act.
Make things, better!
Always try to leave things better than when you found them – change is constant, inevitable and embraced! Be that change we want to see.
Tyk is an equal opportunities employer and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, or race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.
Software Engineer epilot Cologne, Germany €65,000 to €85,000 a year
March 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
epilot digitizes the energy industry with a unique cloud software. We are a fast growing scale-up in the heart of Cologne. Our mission: epilot revolutionizes the way all market partners in the energy world work together to deliver products and services. We offer a large network of partners within the cloud world, which is constantly expanded by the community.
We "epilots" are a team of experts from the fields of software development, energy management, product management and sales. In order to bring our solution even faster to the top in the energy world, we are looking for you as a Software Engineer (m/f/d).
What awaits you
You will get a deep insight into the German energy market and why epilot is a blessing for the digitalization of the market.
You will not only help us to put our vision into practice, but you will also play an active role in shaping it
You are part of the team building the epilot software product using modern web technologies and languages.
You are part of an agile cross-functional team of full-stack, backend and frontend developers, as well as designers and product managers
You will participate in exciting and diverse development projects using agile methods.
You will coach others to learn more as well as be constantly learning new technologies yourself.
In close collaboration with our product management and design teams, you deliver end to end features for our users/
Technically speaking, the use of cutting edge technology is awaiting you, e.g. React, Node.js, Typescript, Golang, AWS and serverless. Check out our current tech stack https://techradar.epilot.io
What you bring
You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a comparable education.
Ideally you have experience with React OR other JavaScript frameworks
Experience crafting and implementing RESTful micro-services or GraphQL
Understanding of SaaS, PaaS, IaaS industry with hands on experience with public OR private cloud offerings (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure)
You are familiar with microservices based architecture patterns
Experience in taking ownership of features, with a team on short and long-running projects
Practical knowledge of agile software development methodologies (e.g., XP, scrum)
You think like an entrepreneur - you understand our business goals and how your daily decisions influence them.
You don't see problems as a problem, but as a great opportunity for you personally, your team and epilot.
You are a doer and have a strong Do-It mentality.
You make quick, smart decisions and weigh the risk intelligently.
You are a TEAM player, motivating and inspiring your colleagues.
What we offer you
The opportunity to help building the most successful SaaS platform in the energy market.
Start-up mentality: dynamic atmosphere and great team spirit.
A rapidly growing company with an open communication culture, motivated colleagues and an international corporate culture.
Epilot is growing rapidly and we expect the same from you. You never stand still, you are permanently challenged, you learn from your mistakes a la Fail Fast and Often.
A central location in the heart of Cologne with cool cafes around the corner.
Performance is rewarded with us - We take your desired salary seriously and talk openly about it with you.
Transparency - We maintain a very flat and open corporate culture, everything is visible and open for discussion.
Coffee, cold drinks, fruits and much appreciation.
You want to know what it is like to work for us? Find out what our colleagues on Kununu say about work @ epilot: https://www.kununu.com/de/epilot
Pragmatic Backend Developer Yapeal AG Zurich, Switzerland Fr80,000 to Fr120,000 a year
February 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
YAPEAL AG is a start-up in the software & finance environment that was founded in June 2018 and is independent of third-party banks. As the first company in Switzerland with its own fintech licence, we have been offering our services on the market since 2020.
We develop state-of-the-art payment solutions for B2B and end customers, including our own Swiss account and VISA debit cards. The whole team is working full of verve and highly focused on the most varied of customer requirements (as well as requests from the community) and needs your support.
Key responsibilities
Do you like to design and develop software? Do you like to work in a cloud-native and fast-moving environment? Are you ready to challenge banking in Switzerland and abroad by implementing new ideas in Go or Python? Are you ready to think outside the box, try and validate ideas and bring them as working software to our clients?
Design software together with our business analyst and test experts
Implement and validate the design in our cloud-native environment
Analyze production behaviour and continuously improve our software
Your Profile
Keen to learn and make a difference
Experience of working with Microservices is a plus
Solid software development skills
Knowledge in financial services in Switzerland and abroad
Knowledge in Go or Python
Experience with REST services
Ability to work with business customers at all roles of the organization
Fluent in English and German
We Offer
High standards: First-class products and a future-oriented, modern workplace.
Team spirit: A highly motivated, young team with an open communication culture.
Personal development: An exciting area of responsibility with plenty of potential for further development and creative freedom.
Work-life balance: flexible working hours at our Altstetten location, combined with home office.
What are you waiting for?
The pleasant working atmosphere, very flat hierarchy, independent work and the short distances in our team particularly distinguish us as an employer.
Disclaimer
YAPEAL is an equal opportunities employer. We respect and promote each individual and support different cultures, perspectives, skills and experiences.
Senior Software Engineer SugarCRM Remote (United States) $100,000 to $120,000 a year
February 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
The Cloud Platform team is responsible for creating robust, scalable, and highly performing technologies that drive all of our cloud offerings. You’ll be responsible for building new services and architectures while helping transform parts of our product lines into a robust and state of the art offering. We are looking for exceptional engineers with a deep understanding of distributed systems, multi-language software development, and an understanding of what it takes to truly create an innovative platform that others can build on as well.
So, if you are a motivated engineer looking to join a collaborative team, submit your application. You might be a perfect fit!
Impact you will make in the role:
Development of core micro services in a global kubernetes cloud environment
Produce high-quality, readable, scalable, secure software that performs well, and at lightning speed using test-driven development
Further develop, optimize, refactor and understand our software architecture
Push the envelope of software design and architecture
Challenge, mentor and learn from your peers
Design reviews and code reviews to keep the standards high
Continually sharpen your own skills
Expertise you will bring in:
5+ years in software development
Golang
Familiarity with micro services architectures, messaging, loosely coupled design, NoSQL / relational databases, Restful APIs and protobuf
Must be able to adapt to a fast-paced collaborative environment
Strong written and verbal communication abilities, flexibility, and commitment to meet deadlines are a must
Join our team either remotely or in our HQ in Amsterdam. This role can be based in any location within the EMEA region.
About us
MessageBird is transforming the communications landscape as one of the fastest-growing software companies in the world. Our cloud communications platform makes it possible for businesses to instantly connect with over 7 billion phones globally, allowing them to speak with their customers in the same ways they talk to their friends.
Our suite provides access to all major messaging channels, from SMS and Voice to WeChat, Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp and more. We provide out-of-the-box solutions with our own applications like Inbox and Flow Builder, plus a robust set of APIs that simplify workflows and automation.
With over 15,000 customers — from small and mid-sized businesses to some of the world’s biggest brands — it’s likely that you’ve benefited from our technology at some point. Our products range from turn-key applications like Inbox, Flow Builder and Campaign Builder, to leading solutions and APIs for enterprises; all are available through our Online Self-Serve (OSS) dashboard.
Our global team is a powerhouse of 350+ employees, who work across eight international offices. We’re excited that you’re here and interested to #jointhenest.
How we work
We work fast, grow fast, and build fast. Life at MessageBird moves in fast-forward motion. We’re a team that focuses on making an impact — right from day one. We are go-getters, industry leaders, and dreamers. Risk takers. Roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen kind of people. We thrive on transparency, and we value solution-minded attitudes.
We are all driven by one ethos: Get Shit Done. We love shaping things together and leveraging different perspectives, because that makes our products better. Our Birds are empowered with freedom and opportunity; in return, we expect honesty, courage, and agility. We own our work, and sometimes we fail. And then we get back up and cross the finish line — together as a team. Sound refreshing? We think so, too.
The role: Senior Software Engineer Golang
Senior Software Engineers play a key role in our product engineering squads. You’ll be responsible for helping design, develop and maintain our communication products and related services. This will enable our customers to send out millions of SMS messages per day; place voice calls via our REST API; gain real-time insights using our Dashboard; and reach out to consumers via IM platforms like WhatsApp.
Our product engineering squads have the freedom and authority to create impactful products to empower both our internal and external customers. We use an agile development methodology, meaning we deploy code multiple times per day while ensuring our applications are rigorously tested and statically analyzed.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Help design and build a performant, scalable and fault-tolerant communication platform.
Team with engineers to solve system design and implementation problems (and get a thrill out of every triumph!).
Work with and enable engineers from other teams who interact with the platform.
Problem-solve issues based on business/customer need and impact, working with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Teach others: One of the most meaningful tasks of a Senior Engineer is improving the knowledge level of the team members.
You will flourish working in a hyper-growth environment where the next project is ready to be picked up.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING
At least 5 years of relevant software development experience
Strong experience in Golang is a must
Strong experience working with relational databases and non-relational data stores (like MySQL, Cassandra & Redis).
Experience with Docker, Containers and Kubernetes.
Practical and theoretical knowledge of development patterns, software architectures and design patterns (TDD, Event-Driven, SOLID, Hexagonal, DDD).
Knowledge of (cloud) infrastructure principles (load balancing, high availability, containerized services, database configurations) is a bonus.
Strong verbal and written communication skills in English.
Ability of teaching others and helping them grow.
Psst… some added perks
The ability to Work Anywhere — literally anywhere you want, as long as it’s in the same time zone as your team (yup… you read that right!). This comes with the added benefit of finding the right work-life balance for you by following our 80/20 rule.
WFH office set-up allowance to make sure you have all you need to “get shit done” in an ergonomically-friendly manner.
Top-notch work equipment (including Bose headphones!).
MessageBird swag to keep you well-dressed.
The occasional (virtual) company-wide and team events.
A team of (fast-)forward-thinking, talented and fun colleagues from more than 50 countries!
MessageBird is an equal opportunity employer. If you think you’re a match for this role and can bring some great skills to the MessageBird team, please apply! We’re excited to get to know you.
Loophole Labs is an early-stage startup building open-source developer tools focused on the networking and application delivery control space.
What's the opportunity?
We have an opportunity for developers who want to help build revolutionary open-source tools from the ground up. You will be involved in the key decisions - software stack, toolset, architecture, and you will work closely with the leadership team. Our HQ location will be Toronto, but we are open to individuals working full-time but remotely within the CA/US/UK/EU time zones. Furthermore, all of your work at Loophole Labs will contribute directly to open-source projects and repositories.
Why is Loophole Labs an amazing place to work?
We're building an engineering culture with tons of autonomy, constant desire to improve, and a focus on creative problem-solving with measurable customer impact.
We have a modern tech stack designed to build software that's efficient, scalable, and maintainable. We offer competitive salaries and generous equity options, not to mention that we are a completely remote company.
We have an incredible engineering culture based on true ownership, a customer-obsessed mentality, and taking the time to get the technical details right. We're built to scale well and scale fast.
You always want to learn, and you take pride in what you build.
You've got a startup mentality and love creative problem-solving.
Ideally, you are deeply curious about what's happening in the world of work. You are driven to create a product that solves an immediate, real-world need.
The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing high-quality applications. They will also be responsible for designing and implementing testable and scalable code.
Responsibilities:
Write good quality code and focus on the details - Since we're delivering an open-source tool, it's important to us that the code be easy to maintain and easy to understand. We want you to be proud of the software you write, and ideally this will already your past work, whether it's through an open-source Github repository or a web app you've published.
Work with the management team to architect fault-tolerant and highly-scalable infrastructure
Analyze and maintain external open-source libraries and tools
Discover and fix various bugs
Take ownership of projects and features
Run benchmarks and improve our core technologies
Foster an engineering culture
Analyze and maintain existing internal and external open-source libraries
Qualifications:
At least 3 years of professional software engineering experience
Understanding and implementation of common networking protocols (SSL/TLS, L4 Traffic, L7 Traffic, TCP vs UDP, etc.)
Experience using Kubernetes (ideally in production environments)
Experience with Golang or Rust
Experience with GraphQL or NoSQL Databases
Experience working with product and design teams
Familiarity with Git
Familiarity with CI/CD processes
Bonus Qualifications:
Familiarity with Distributed Systems Architecture
Existing contributions to Open-Source software (we'd love to see your work!)
Familiarity with AWS, GCP or Digital Ocean
Nuxt.js or Vue.js
TailwindCSS
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all of the above requirements!
Site Reliability Engineer Rebellion Defense Washington, DC / Chicago, Illinois, United States $100,000 to $200,000 a year
November 2020
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). As an SRE, you will be tasked with the reliability and operation of our production environments. SREs are tasked with ensuring teams within the company receive help maintaining software at scale, as well as help designing and developing software for scale. SREs are expected to engage with the product teams to ensure the delivery of our software is as seamless as possible.
These position is based out of our Washington D.C. or Chicago Illinois office locations. An active clearance or ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance will be required.
We look for a track record of the following:
Coming alongside high energy engineering teams to enable the adoption of best practices to enable the scalability and reliability of deployed software,
Defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
Experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production services,
Experience facilitating the definition and implementation of SLIs and SLOs,
Understanding how to carefully spend error budget to handle regular deployment of large changes to production,
Deep experience in Linux operating systems, and systems engineering,
Comfort delivering critical software in Go and Python,
Willingness to debug problems across the stack,
Comfortability with working on underspecified problems and are capable of rapidly learning and iterating on solutions,
Experience building the wrong system enough times to avoid the common pitfalls, whether building something personally or advising others.
You might be a good fit if you:
5+ years of relevant SRE experience in the tech industry,
demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP, web application security and experience supporting web application architecture,
experience working with a variety of storage systems, application architectures, compute infrastructure and network management systems,
experience designing, implementing, deploying, and operating high scale production service,
defined architecture and built services at scale on public infrastructure such as AWS and Azure,
proven knowledge at least one higher-level language (eg. Python and Golang),
The ability and desire to build and learn new systems with new technologies.
Rebellion is a well-capitalized technology start-up firm that is passionate about defining and delivering modern, life-changing software products to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD), and their allies. At Rebellion we believe in operating what we own, we deliver all of our products as managed services, this allows our product teams to maintain operational ownership across all deployments. Expect talented, motivated, intense, and interesting co-workers.
Compensation includes meaningful equity ownership, competitive salaries, full medical coverage, disability and life insurance, and transit reimbursement.
An Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.
Rebellion Defense is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. Rebellion Defense does not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic in accordance with federal, state, and local law.
Backend Software Engineer (Go) Stream Amsterdam, The Netherlands €65,000 to €80,000 a year
September 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What you will be doing
Most of your day will be dedicated to software design, research, and coding. On typical projects, you will have a lot of freedom and you will be paired with another team member. Our team is made up of very experienced engineers, some with more than 10 years of experience. By working together you will learn from each other along the way. You will have an enormous impact on making our API service faster, more scalable and more flexible.
You will add new features to the service and find ways to make the existing ones perform orders of magnitude faster. Our customers have millions of users; they use Stream for mission critical features such as showing content and exposing core functionality of their application. Building stable and reliable software is not just an option: as a member of the development team, you will design and write state-of-the-art software, follow best practices, measure everything and be responsible for deployment to production. You will also spend part of your time talking to our customers and help them to use Stream in their app.
The challenges
Distributed databases: we built our own data store for feeds and for chat
Real-time messaging
High performance: our API responses are in the 10ms range
High scalability: we use sharding, master-master, and master-slave to ensure scalability
High availability: our entire infrastructure is designed and operated to survive entire datacenter crashes
Multi-region: we deploy our service on 4 different continents
You have
* Proficiency in Go or you are a Senior backend developer willing and able to learn quickly
* 5+ years as a backend developer
* Experience with high traffic and high performance applications
* Good knowledge of relational databases
* Experience with building HTTP APIs
* Experience managing your own projects and work in a team
Our tech stack
At Stream we use a wide collection of technologies to offer highly optimized and available features to our customers. Over the years we have experimented with different programming languages, frameworks, databases, and libraries. Here is a short list of the technology that we currently use. Do not worry if you do not master them all or if you do not see your favorite tool or language, you will have the chance to be exposed to most and to convince us to expand the list:
Go, gRPC, RocksDB, Python
Postgresql, RabbitMQ
AWS, Puppet, CloudFormation
Grafana, Graphite, ELK, Jaeger
Redis, Memcached
What we have to offer you
Stream employees enjoy some of the best benefits in the industry:
A competitive salary
Company equity
A team of exceptional engineers
The chance to work on OSS projects
MacBook Pro or other development setup
Healthy team lunches and plenty of snacks
A generous relocation package
An office in the heart of Amsterdam
The opportunity to attend or present to global conferences and meetups
The possibility to visit our office in Boulder, CO
Our culture
Stream has a casual social culture, our team is diverse and we all have different backgrounds.
Our talented developers are highly technical and collaborative, which makes Stream a great place to learn and improve your skills. When it comes to software engineering our culture is oriented towards ownership and quality: our goal is to deliver stable software.
If you are interested in becoming a part of what we do, apply now!
Software Engineer Improbable London, United Kingdom £70,000 to £110,000 a year
July 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Improbable has created SpatialOS: a networking solution combining low latency, tools for faster iteration, and a ready-to-go architecture capable of supporting innovative games.
Now the Improbable Defence division, building on the backbone of SpatialOS, has combined world class scientific modelling, market leading AI, mission specific user interfaces and a uniquely flexible and secure deployment model to create a powerful simulation platform tailored to the needs of the military.
Our mission? To enable the most realistic and effective military simulations ever experienced, making defence users more effective on operations and decreasing the cost of military preparedness.
Mission
The Partner Engineering team are software engineers responsible for providing deep technical expertise to our strategic partners & customers to successfully develop and build with SpatialOS and our advanced probabilistic modelling products.
Partner Engineers at improbable are Software Engineers with deep knowledge of the core concepts of our faster-than-realtime simulation products, and help our industry partners to build specific products. A Partner Engineer in the Defence Unit helps design, deploy, and support solutions that are performant, scalable, and highly available wherever the end user requires.
Areas for Impact
Your work is amongst the most high-profile and important work that Improbable Defence does.
You will be working directly on one of our multi-year, high-value programs of work. You will work through the entire SDLC with partners.
In early phases, you will provide design expertise as well as deep competence in our modelling & simulation products.
As the project progresses you will serve as the Improbable product SME, leading complex areas of feature development (integrations, deployment, performance optimizations).
At the front-line with our partners you will be uniquely positioned to influence product direction, leveraging direct feedback and qualitative evidence.
We'd like to hear from you if you identify with much of the following:
Experience building cloud-based software products, leveraging tools like Docker or Kubernetes for example.
Experience building data-intensive software products leveraging tools like Kafka or Spark for example.
Experience with a range of software engineering languages; we use Golang, C++, Kotlin & Typescript but welcome a range of backgrounds and are happy to train candidates up
Natural communicator; able to work with a range of stakeholders inside and outside the core business.
You have a desire to work with our partners who are central to our platform; these include large engineering and defence organisations.
You have experience designing technical solutions alongside partners or customers; you may be a solutions architect or customer engineer for instance.
You enjoy working cross-functionally, contributing to Product direction and influencing senior stakeholders.
Equal Opportunity
The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Improbable are made up of an incredible range of talented people. Improbable is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.
Principal Software Engineer News UK London, United Kingdom / Limited Remote £70,000 to £85,000 a year
January 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are: News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.
Your team; Monetise. Responsible for the Monetise domain within the wider MAIN (Monetisation, Access, and Identity for News) platform. Our monetisation services underpin our award winning portfolio of produces across our brands. Our passion lies in building robust, flexible, scalable, secure, and clean platforms using the latest industry standard technologies.
Your role: Principal Software Engineer. We are looking for a talented and passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our team based in London.
Day to day you will: As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software. You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. You’ll report in to the Head of Engineering and will help them deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation. You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard.
What we’re looking for from you: You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, encouraging those around you to do the same.
You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard. You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD/BDD. You are an expert in Java and perhaps some other languages too.
As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be involved with the technical direction as well as day to day coding standards and best practices. You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business. You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK.
You’ll find these skills useful in this role:
Object Oriented analysis and design
Continuous delivery and associated tooling
Developing Cloud based applications
What's in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team environment. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
Corporate benefits
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions;
Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up 2 weeks full basic salary;
Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family;
A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees;
Interest free commuter loan of up to £10,000 tax free
‘Bikes For Work’ scheme to save income tax and national insurance;
Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice;
Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.