About Cuvva
Cuvva is making car insurance radically better.
Weâre creating truly flexible products that meet peopleâs real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.
Cuvva was the first UK company to sell hourly insurance through an app. Since then weâve sold over 3 million policies and supported over 450,000 customers. Weâre a world-class team of over 100 people, passionate about solving our customersâ problems. Join us.
Why work for Cuvva?
We donât cut corners. We strive to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
We are customer centric and everyone in every area of the businessâincluding our CEO & Founder Freddyâis expected to spend a few hours a month on customer support. This is so we all fully understand customer needs and how the app works! Hereâs a blog post on our âCops Clubâ.
Weâve nurtured an awesome team culture. We always speak up when we have an idea - but also know when to let go and get behind something else. And weâre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things.
Weâre building a diverse team from different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. Everyone is given a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donât love insurance, trust us, youâll love what weâre building.
About the role
Youâll work in one of our cross-functional product squads, helping the team achieve their goals - whether thatâs building a new service in our backend platform, creating a new version of an existing API to deliver a new feature, or creating a CLI tool to automate something.
We work in a highly collaborative fashion, and maintain an open and transparent work environment. Engineers at Cuvva donât just write code or implement against a spec. Youâll be expected and encouraged to take part in the entire product development process from problem-discovery to solution design, to implementation and rollout.
Each product squad autonomously owns an area of the Cuvva product. Squads are made up of engineers from multiple disciplines (backend, web, iOS, Android), product and content designers, and a product manager. Engineers at Cuvva come from a variety of backgrounds and have different but complementary skill sets. We donât require a computer science degree - many of us are self-taught.
Our approach
We value consistently-written, simple, resilient systems. Our backend is made up of many standalone services with a JSON-based RPC interface. We aim to create a client-agnostic API design suitable for a variety of clients (mobile apps, website, internal tooling, 3rd parties). Because weâre a regulated financial company, we have interesting and rigorous requirements to meet with regards to data security and auditability.
Most systems are written in Go (some older ones are Javascript), backed by either Postgres or Mongo, and are hosted in a container environment. We heavily lean on AWS tooling such as S3, Lambda, and SQS, and we occasionally build integrations with more âlegacyâ 3rd party systems in the insurance industry.
You can find out more about our backend systems here: Our libraries and Go tooling is open sourced on GitHub âShowing off our K-sortable IDsâ our blog
âHow we analyse and test new pricing modelsâ our blog
âHow we test and roll out new product featuresâ our blog
You'll do great here if you:
⢠Have genuine interest and curiosity about the Cuvva product, and consumer insurance in general
⢠Enjoy working as a team to solve problems collaboratively
⢠Have around 5 years of experience building rock-solid backend systems and APIs
⢠Have a track record of shipping great quality code with real customer impact
⢠Be comfortable and productive working with Go
â˘Â We donât require commercial Go experience but you would be expected to have a basic understanding and a willingness to learn
⢠Having a background with at least one statically-typed language is a good sign
â˘Â Know your way around the major AWS services (or similar cloud services), and have an enthusiasm for cloud services in general
â˘Â Be comfortable working with containers (e.g. Docker, K8S, ECR, container based CI platforms)
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary (ÂŁ75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
⢠Brand new MacBook đť
⢠33 days holiday (inc public holidaysđ)
⢠Flexible working
⢠Wellbeing, personal development and work from home budgets
⢠Yearly increases to budgets and holiday allowances
⢠Generous parental leave policy
⢠One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus mental health coaches, giving you a safe space to talk đ§
⢠Access to Lifeworks - our mental health tool and employee assistance programme
⢠Mates rates on your car insurance
⢠Salary sacrifice schemes for electric bike hire and electric car lease
⢠Cycle to work scheme đ˛
⢠Season ticket loans đ
⢠A volunteer day
⢠Office library full of great books đ
⢠Great coffee machine in the office âď¸
⢠Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge (we do team drinks every Thursday)
⢠Monthly team outings or remote events (so far weâve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy nights) đ¤
Apply ⎘ Copy Link ↗ Visit LinkWeâre looking for a full-stack developer/software engineer who wants to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.
Youâll have a passion for great coding, an ability to plan out and work with high volumes of data to join our growing team of existing developers!
All in all, we process over 4 billion products daily, throwing up a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match. And through the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that drive forward online retail growth.
Redbrain, Europeâs biggest Google Shopping partner. Weâre absolutely smashing it in the UK and across Europe last year alone driving over ÂŁ500 million in incremental sales to over 5,000 retailers.
This is an opportunity to join a team of talented problem solvers, looking at untangling complex problems and finding simple solutions. Through your work, you will have a direct impact on how the world's leading retailers grow their online sales.
We believe engineers write code for other engineers and not just for machines, therefore we celebrate clean and smart code!
If youâre keen to support us on our mission to build the worldâs best incremental sales engine, take a look at what we have on offer.
Job is linked to our Birmingham office, we're Remote first with 1 office day every two weeks.
Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:
Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Microservices
Platform: Elasticsearch, PostgresDB, Vault, PubSub, GCS, Spanner
Tools: GRPC, Protobuf, Terraform, Gitlab, Kibana, Golang
Ways of working: Agile, Scrum, Pair Programming
The role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, youâll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions.
Youâll own the design and development of large-scale high-performance services using technologies such as Golang & Kubernetes.
You will be a great team player, providing and seeking useful feedback from other members of their team, and seeking opportunities to help out within the wider business.
The software engineer will be able to manage their own workload, estimate tasks well and prioritise when issues arise.
Weâre looking for someone who cares deeply about building flawless product features while challenging our thinking on software architecture.
Youâll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering team.
Someone with a passion for building performant and reliable systems, and is always up for a challenge.
Weâre looking for engineers with:
**As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, youâll get: **
NO AGENCIES - Please note we do not accept applications from agencies. We will treat all CV's submitted as Direct Applicants.
Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the worldâs most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.
Youâll be leading the development of some of Budâs most critical internal services that are utilised by product teams across Bud as well as owning a number of core platform exposed services that are non-product specific for domains such as authentication and traffic management. Every request that hits the Bud Platform will end up touching at least one of the services youâre responsible for. Youâll be contributing to Bud-wide architecture as well as actively developing in Budâs Platform & Security [Product] Team where youâll be the driving software engineering force in the team (which is mostly composed of SRE/Platform Engineers). Youâll also be a core channel of representing the perspective of backend engineers in the team and helping the team to solve cross-engineering problems.
The software engineering team are tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner of integrating hundreds of third-party businesses. Data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research and most importantly secure it.
We could play buzzword bingo but one of our core values is 'Authentic' and the best way to demonstrate this is by sharing our employee engagement dashboard. This provides a weekly engagement and NPS score giving you a true reflection of life at Bud. All data collected is realtime & anonymised so we have no control over what you see.
The dashboard is interactive so check it out here and have a look at what the numbers mean, https://bit.ly/2MhjAZT
Weâre a diverse group of people. With backgrounds ranging from data science to music production, more than 80% of our team come from outside the world of finance â providing us with a unique perspective as we help consumers feel more in control of their lives. For us, an interest in people comes first; finance follows.
The apps and infrastructure weâre building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people. Picture this: a world where your bank knew you were paying too much for your gas bill and could switch you to a more suitable provider, or understood your savings targets and could automatically find you a better deal. Thatâs what weâre working towards.
Budâs mission is to make the money part of peopleâs lives simple. To get there, we need a workforce that is diverse as the people we create our products for. Which means we need people who have different backgrounds and experiences, who are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.
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Compensation đ°
We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud.
Options đ
Anyone joining Bud is granted stock options and the opportunity to invest in what we are building and developing, and to get to share in our future successes.
Wellbeing Allowance đď¸ââď¸đ§ââď¸
We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, Bud has a ÂŁ50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance which can be used towards your own wellness, whether thatâs a gym membership, meal-box subscription, massages or something else!
Learning & Development đ
As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual ÂŁ500 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses & events - the choice is yours.
We also have quarterly R&D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something thatâs inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.
Flexible Working âł
As a trusted member of the Bud, youâll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. This role can be based in our London office, or fully remote/distributed in the UK.
Time Off đď¸
Weâre a team that likes to work hard, so we need to make sure we balance this with time to rest and relax. We offer 25 days holiday, plus the usual bank holidays, plus additional time off over the holiday season.
Equipment đť
We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so youâll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.
Social đđş
Weâre big on keeping Bud a social place to work, with big quarterly events (we throw an epic summer party), regular team socials & monthly company breakfasts. This year weâve stepped up our virtual social scene with quiz nights, virtual cocktail making, book clubs, and online workouts.
Commuting đ
We are big advocates of sustainable transport and travel, and are members of a cycle to work scheme. We also have season ticket loans available.
Pension đŚ
We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%
MySense is a wellbeing analytics platform which utilises a suite of Zigbee IoT sensors, a sleep belt and a wearable device to provide valuable insights into a personâs behaviour in order to improve quality of care and support.
We are at the forefront of a new industry which is improving peopleâs lives using technology, your work will have great value and purpose. Our ideal candidate has leadership capabilities, a passion for design and strong attention to detail.
The Role
This unique role requires a Golang engineer to rebuild an embedded Java application using Go microprocesses. The current app is written in Java 8 and is hosted on an Embedded Linux system. You will need a passion for hardware and IoT as you will be doing a lot of testing using physical IoT devices.
You will work directly with the Engineering Lead to create production ready code with good test coverage. If you are a Go engineer who has always tinkered and enjoyed working with embedded Linux devices, this job will be perfect for you. The role will involve learning new technologies and becoming the go-to expert for all things gateway related.
Required Skills:
Desirable Skills:
Why us
We are a fast-growing scale-up in the IoT health space, you will help shape the team and company and your decisions will have a huge impact. As an IoT company, the challenges we face are often novel and require unique and innovative solutions which can be both invigorating and rewarding. We trust our engineers, remote working is very much encouraged.
Our culture
We foster a culture of openness and authenticity over structure and process. Strong communication, learning and collaboration are what we strive for and we are looking for people who share these values.
Our benefits:
Where
We are set up to work fully remotely, and this is how we will continue to operate. We do have offices which can be used as and when required.
We are right by Lambeth Bridge on the 12th floor of Westminster Tower with great views overlooking the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye.
Fastly helps people stay better connected with the things they love. Fastlyâs edge cloud platform enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customersâ applications as close to their end-users as possible â at the edge of the Internet. The platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. Fastlyâs customers include many of the worldâs most prominent companies, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
We're building a more trustworthy Internet. Come join us.
Principal Software Engineer - Edge Data
You will be one of the first engineers working on a brand-new system that Fastly has been prototyping and is now beginning to operationalize. The system applies cutting-edge distributed systems theory â notably, CRDTs â to Fastly's global network to provide an infrastructure for state at the edge.
What You'll Do
Why Fastly?
We have a huge impact. Fastly is a small company with a big reach. Not only do our customers have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of open source projects and initiatives. Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
We love distributed teams. Fastlyâs home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. In fact, 50% of our employees work outside of SF! An international remote culture is in our DNA.
We care about you. Fastly works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits like up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave, options for free medical/dental/vision plans, and an open vacation program that enables our folks to take the time they need to recharge (some benefits may vary by location).
We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
We are passionate. Fastly is chock full of passionate people and weâre not âone size fits allâ. Fastly employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
Weâre always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the Fastly team. If you think you might be a fit, please apply!
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Excited about the idea of working on distributed systems at scale? Want to be writing Go everyday? With great people? Weâre looking for curious problem solvers to do just that.
At Geckoboard, weâre working to help teams achieve their goals by enabling a fresh way of working. This revolves around making sure that important data gets seen and acted upon. Thatâs where our dashboards come in. Geckoboard is straightforward dashboard software that makes it quick and easy to surface live business data, metrics and KPIs for teams.
We're all here to build something great. You'll be joining a growing team of empowered engineers in a supportive environment that values experimentation, work-life balance and personal development. We've built a culture of knowledge sharing and feedback, so you'll be involved in planning and prioritisation of work as well as peer reviews and pair programming.
Learning is also a big part of our engineering culture. About once every fortnight you're able to take a whole day â an Innovation Day â to work on projects that interest you, learn new skills or contribute to open source⌠whatever it may be! We encourage these projects and often they have led to improvements in the way we work or concepts that have then been prioritised, developed further and added to our Product.
We work in small and focused cross-functional teams, usually made up of a Product Manager, a Designer, and a mix of Frontend and Backend Engineers. QA and Infrastructure tend to come in at the points they're needed or for specific projects. We scope out our project such that we're able to deliver meaningful work but small enough to iterate and take on board feedback quickly. We encourage our engineers to get involved in different teams and projects based on their interests, skills and opportunities to learn. We're also equally mindful about technical debt and make sure we dedicate time to addressing it.
**Product
**Our product teams each own a different part of the product, building features that improve Geckoboard for our customers. Some of our recent work has ranged from a new send-to-Slack feature, SSO and in the team youâll be joining initially, weâve been building a brand new internal framework for importing, storing, and analysing data from third-party APIs we integrate with. We know that investing in our Data Platform is the best way we can deliver flexible, high-quality integrations quickly and easily. The new framework takes care of managing and scheduling imports, responding to webhooks, receiving analytics queries, migrating data from one version to the next and allows us to build internal gRPC services using a common protobuf interface upon it.
**Platform
**We believe that we can only be successful as an Engineering team if we are constantly and systematically investing in our tooling, our common systems, and our developer experience, this is where our Platform team comes in. Our recent work has ranged from rapid response work to improving test and trace coverage, migrating existing services to Go modules and support for other teams. We're also working on enabling older RESTful services to be migrated onto gRPC with a GraphQL API gateway in front.
What weâve described sounds interesting
Youâre interested in distributed systems
Youâve worked with Go before*
You want to build a product that delights its users and genuinely serves their needs
Youâre collaborative; you empathise, listen and discuss
You actively seek out feedback in your work and to ensure you understand the problem youâre solving
We know that there are great candidates who may not exactly fit into what weâve described above, or who have important skills we havenât thought of. If thatâs you or youâre not sure, please apply, weâd love to hear from you.
While most of our team are normally based in our leafy East London office, a lot of us work remotely at least a day or two during the week. This means weâve always been intentional about making sure our ways-of-working are remote-friendly so we can support that flexibility for everyone. We also have fully remote team members, though the expectation is that youâre comfortable with a visit to the London office about once a quarter (except during pandemics).
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our office remains closed and everyone on the team is working from home presently. Weâre likely to continue working from home over the Winter. We keep a close eye on the government guidance, regularly update the team, and plan to open our office only when itâs safe to do so again.
Some of our team have shorter working weeks and weâre more than happy to try to accommodate this or another arrangement whenever possible. Just let us know what works best for you or that youâd like to chat about it in your application.
At this time, weâre only considering candidates who are (or will be) based in the United Kingdom (regardless of whether youâre onsite when out offices reopen or fully remote). Unfortunately, weâre unable to provide sponsorship for this role.
The whole process takes about 2-3 weeks end to end, but weâre flexible!
Do you want to join our team as our new Backend Go Software Engineer? We'd love to hear about you!
About Cuvva
Cuvva is a new kind of insurance thatâs fast, friendly, and flexible.
We get it - insurance doesnât sound exciting. But this isnât insurance as you know it. Itâs insurance the way it should be. Weâre putting the customer first and building products that solve real human needs.
We were the first company in the UK to sell hourly insurance, and the first to sell insurance through an app. Weâve sold over 1 million policies. Weâve written over 260,000 lines of code. And weâre a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.
Why work for Cuvva?
Weâre shaping the future of insurance. So we donât cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
Weâll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.
And weâre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. Itâs the Cuvva way.
Weâre building a diverse team with different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. So we give everyone a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donât love insurance. (Donât worry - we didnât either.)
And if you need any adjustments or support when youâre applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.
As well as a competitive salary (ÂŁ75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
Equality
Weâre committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to join Cuvva, whatever your background. We will always treat your application in a fair and equal manner.
About the role
We're looking for a software engineer who has held senior positions in engineering teams within high-growth, high-scale startups, who will operate with a high level of autonomy, ensuring impeccable reliability and availability. You care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering solutions which support your team and your product.
You will develop Cuvva's core platform, abstracting the key processes required to sell insurance, delivering solutions that allow the team to develop strong and stable products, without having to spend time ensuring they get the basics right.
Aside from developing core platform services, we expect you will also become heavily involved with ops and security activities, contributing towards the maintenance of our servers, AWS account, etc.
"Core platform"
When we refer to the "core platform", we mean the services which underpin the processes of all insurance activities on our system.
For example, we expect one of these to be the "policy service", which might be responsible for ensuring compliant issuance of policies, coordinating mid-term adjustments, preventing overlapping policies (double insurance), etc.
Other services could include user authentication, risk & pricing calculation, handling the process of modifying user data in-line with any mid-term adjustment requirements.
All services we consider to be part of the core platform will have strict requirements around stability, data integrity and transactional safety. All functionality must fail safely and explicitly, for example using 2-phase commit processes or other similar techniques. This will also require a reasonable level of testing to validate this safety.
The perfect addition to our team will have:
We are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!
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Welcome! Weâre Attest: a Consumer Growth Platform. Weâre on a mission to bring every business closer to consumers, and empower them with the insights that drive predictable and repeatable growth; enabling them to create and deliver better, more useful services, products and experiences for communities worldwide.
Weâre spearheaded by a bunch of awesome individuals, and our guess is that youâre pretty awesome, too. Weâre ultra-proud of the inclusive company weâve built to date. Attest is not just an exciting place to work alongside great people, but a feeling â one of belonging and adventure. Weâre delighted that youâve taken the first step to becoming an Attester by expressing an interest in who we are and what we do.
About the Technology team
Engineers join us for the technical challenges we overcome and stay for the incredible culture our Engineers create and grow, from talking at meetups such as the monthly 'London Microservices Meetup' (hosted and set up by our very own Technical Director) to contributing regularly to open source software (we're lucky to have the core contributor to Vue.js in our ranks). We work very closely with Product and Design in cross-functional squads, each of which has the autonomy to practice agile in the way that works best for them. We're also excited to build out a Data Science function here at Attest, focusing on ML and NLP techniques to provide greater insights to our customers and safeguard our high data quality.
Our tech stack utilises some of the latest technologies, such as; gRPC, linkerd2, Postgres and Elasticsearch (to name just a few) all running on Kubernetes. We mainly code in Go and Java, and going forward we are focussing on building event sourced systems in Go. Experience in these areas will be a big plus.
At Attest you will * Collaborate with the whole team to identify and create best-in-class products. * Deliver features regularly, be comfortable with ambiguity, and push for code quality always. * Participate in planning, stand-ups and retrospective meetings. * Explore innovative ways to solve problems, and become an expert in high-availability systems. * Design highly efficient architectures that scale around user demand.
Who you are * A team player. Collaborative, self-motivated, creative, entrepreneurial & thoughtful style. * Thrive with opportunities. Enjoy solving complex data & architecture problems efficiently. * Love delivery. High quality code in an agile environment. * Results-driven. With proactive use and exploration of new technologies and methodologies.
What youâll bring to Attest * Expertise in building and maintaining event-driven architectures. * Expertise in developing, testing & debugging highly-available distributed systems. * Experience with databases: PostgreSQL / mySQL / DynamoDB / Redis. * Experience with infrastructure technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
What weâll offer in return
Our benefits and perks are designed with a focus on the wellbeing, engagement, and growth of our Attesters.
A competitive salary that fairly recognises your experience and potential; High-quality Equipment â whether you prefer a MacBook or a Windows machine, weâll invest a sizeable amount to provide you with the right tools and set-up to help you do your best work; **25 days paid holiday â **we care about our teamâs wellbeing, so we make sure you have time to fully switch off, rest, and recharge; **Flexible working hours and working from home â ** whether you have parental responsibilities, just need some headspace, or have a parcel being delivered, weâll support you in making your work and personal life a manageable blend; A generous Growth & Development budget to spend on the resources and tools that will help you grow in your role and achieve your career goals; **10% adventure time **to invest in charitable activities, your growth and development, and/or side projects for Attest; Weekly team lunch â a team who eats together, works hard together, and stays together, right? We order in lunch every week, but also acknowledge those who are less fortunate than ourselves: for every meal we order, our supplier donates a meal in support of the Akshaya Patra Foundation; Fully-paid sick days â Mental health and physical health are treated equally at Attest. Whether youâve been knocked out with the flu, are having an operation, or need some time off to manage anxiety, stress or depression, for example, we encourage all our Attesters to rest up and come back when theyâre feeling more like themselves; A values-led working environment that encourages putting people first, honesty, curiosity and leadership.
Is this role not quite the right fit for you? Or, have you not seen a suitable position available on our careers site?...Weâre always on the look-out for interesting, bright folk to join our team of Attesters. Connect with us to stay in touch, and weâll notify you when we have new opportunities.
About our people and culture
Attest is a place where youâre encouraged to bring every part of you needed to do your best work; every part of you needed to build strong, meaningful and long-lasting relationships with your fellow Attesters, our clients and partners.
We champion our people in their entirety. With our team of Attesters, we take a human-first approach, optimising for joy and adventure, ingrained in everything we do.
Weâre a friendly, collaborative team, and value putting people (our team, clients and consumers) first; honesty, curiosity, empowerment and leadership are core to our team working style. Decisions are made with careful and quick consideration at Attest, to support fast and efficient growth.
About Attest
We believe that great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. These companies create better, more useful products and services, which leads to happier consumers and ever-greater success. Through our Consumer Growth Platform, everyone can now gain answers to their questions from audiences of over 100 million consumers across 80 markets.
Our clients use Attest to learn more about their target consumers, enter new markets, build new categories, validate decisions, develop better products and services, measure their brand, track competition, all with the goal of driving sustained growth across the business.
Our clients include Heineken, Walgreens Boots, Samsung, Fever-Tree, Discovery, Transferwise, and Nutmeg, among many others.
Weâre backed by leading VCs, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) â the investors behind companies such as Uber, Salesforce, Box, and Tableau; Oxford Capital and Episode 1 (the investors behind LoveFilm, Zoopla, Betfair, Shazam, CarWow and many other greats); plus several high-powered amazing Angel investors.
Diversity statement
Diversity matters, and we celebrate it at Attest! Weâre building an inclusive place to work where everyone feels they belong. We see you and youâre welcome here. Attest doesnât discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.
We want to give everyone the opportunity to showcase their best selves during the interview process and beyond. Do let us know if there are any adjustments youâd like to make to ensure itâs more inclusive â weâre learning too, so weâre more than happy to adapt and accommodate where possible.
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Armakuni empower our clients to take ideas to production in weeks, not months. Our Engineering Consultants act as change catalysts, enabling teams to leverage development best practices to fully optimise their cloud journeys.
Best practice. What does this actually mean? Whatâs âbestâ for one company doesnât always work for others, right? Well, not quite. Research has shown that there are certain practices that lead to happier, more productive development teams and environments, and itâs these that we are positively evangelistic about here at Armakuni. We combine the practices of Software Craftsmanship, Agile/Lean, DevOps, Cloud Native architectures and infrastructures to enable high quality, high velocity, sustainable engineering teams.
What we enjoy:
A day in the life:
What does good look like?
First and foremost you will have a passion for leveraging technology to optimise processes and procedures. With a background in software development you will enjoy working alongside client Engineering teams to introduce and optimise development tools and methodologies, ultimately enhancing their cloud journey.
From a technical perspective we find those who enjoy a successful career as a Consulting Software Engineer with Armakuni typically have:
The reward:
We offer the chance to be a part of a rapidly evolving technology-driven community; a team of like-minded experts in sharing their knowledge not just with clients but with each other. Perks include:
Of course we also make sure that you are well looked after offering highly competitive salaries plus an ever growing benefits package which currently includes:
Please note: we get lots of successful applications for Backend Engineer, so there could be a delay in scheduling interviews from the initial stage right up until the final interviews. If you're invited to interview and you have any immediate time pressures, please let us know, as we'll always do our best to speed things up for you 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 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 regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. Weâve also made ourproduct roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum. 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 800 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:
Go to write our application code (thereâs an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)
Cassandra for most persistent data storage
Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
Envoy Proxy for RPC
Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (Oliver,our Head of Engineering, gave a great talk at KubeCon on how we use these technologies)
AWS for most of our infrastructure
React for internal web dashboards
We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties
You should apply if:
the work weâre doing sounds exciting!
you want to be involved in building a product that you (andeveryone you know) use every day
youâre keen to learn more about new technologies and the arcane inner workings of the financial industry
youâre comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity
youâre interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software
you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go,Java, C, Scala etc.).
At the moment, the following teams are looking for backend engineers:
Product The product backend team work primarily on creating backend services and APIs for our in-app user-facing features. They work closely with our mobile engineers and designers to create a delightful user experience, and to drive growth and retention. Projects that Product backend engineers have worked on recently include Summary (giving people insight into their finances to empower them to spend sensibly) and the Current Account Switch Service (all the hard work to allow users to move to Monzo quickly and easily).
Lending The Lending team works on making borrowing money simple, fair and transparent. They've already shipped and scaled overdrafts to hundreds of thousands of Monzo customers and they've made it easy to take out a loan without the unfair fees or confusing pricing that you find elsewhere. They work on everything from the way borrowing works in the app, right down to how they move and account for money that our customers borrow. One of the most interesting problems they face is deciding how much to lend and to whom. The team believes that they can make access to credit fairer and more transparent.
Logistics
We can help you relocate to London, we can sponsor visas, and we're open to remote working (as long as you can spend around 20% of your time in London).
We offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, which could be anywhere between ÂŁ40,000 - ÂŁ100,000 per year.
We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If youâd prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, weâll facilitate this wherever we can - whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.
Weâre continually hiring for Backend Engineers! Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, a take-home code task, and a half-day on-site interview. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions, and we won't make you code on a whiteboard
Questions about this role? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs (www.monzo.com/careers) or email tech-hiring@monzo.com