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Distributed Systems Engineer Flare London, United Kingdom Ā£60,000 to Ā£80,000 a year
August 2018
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Our mission is to give every person on the planet fast and affordable internet. We remove traditional internet infrastructure costs by developing technology which allows any device to be used as a cloud server. Using this tech, we will build a global distributed cloud platform. We are working at the forefront of distributed systems, peer-to-peer networking, and cloud systems.
Flareās first product is a peer-to-peer CDN, designed to be faster and cheaper than incumbents. We are looking for someone to help us tackle the scalability challenges around our product. You will help us design and build out our caching, messaging, and routing systems to work across millions of nodes. You will have significant input and control over the architecture of these systems, to help us ensure that they are scalable, reliable, and fast.
We raised a Ā£1.1m seed round earlier this year, and are backed by some of the original investors of Protocol Labs, Transferwise, and Zoopla. We have already partnered with industry heavyweights like the Guardian Media Group (one of the largest media platforms in the world), and our advisory board includes the ex-CEO of BitTorrent, ex-CTO of Shazam, and one of Akamaiās founding architects.
You will be a core team member in a fast-moving startup, working alongside talented engineers to build and ship a product that will be used by millions. You will be one of the first employees at Flare, and you will have direct input over the architecture and design of Flareās systems. It is an unparalleled opportunity to grow and learn in a startup environment, and have direct impact on Flareās direction.
We are looking for someone who has built and deployed performant and distributed systems at scale (preferably in Golang). We expect that you have experience working with the major cloud providers (AWS/GCP), ideally in high-load systems. You should be familiar with CDN architectures (caches, origin servers, proxies, etc), the networking stack, and the infrastructure of the internet.
Golang (Go) Backend Engineer Healum London, United Kingdom Ā£50,000 to Ā£65,000 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 peopleās 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 youāll love getting your hands dirty with planning, scaling, security and testing. Youāll 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 peopleās 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!
Backend Engineer Cuvva London, United Kingdom Ā£75,000 to Ā£90,000 a year
August 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Cuvva
Cuvva is making car insurance radically better.
Weāre creating truly flexible products that meet peopleās 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 weāve sold over 3 million policies and supported over 450,000 customers. Weāre a world-class team of over 100 people, passionate about solving our customersā problems. Join us.
Why work for Cuvva?
We donāt 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 businessāincluding our CEO & Founder Freddyāis 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! Hereās a blog post on our āCops Clubā.
Weāve 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 weāre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things.
Weāre 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 donāt love insurance, trust us, youāll love what weāre building.
About the role
Youāll work in one of our cross-functional product squads, helping the team achieve their goals - whether thatās 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 donāt just write code or implement against a spec. Youāll 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 donāt 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 weāre 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 ālegacyā 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
āShowing off our K-sortable IDsā our blog
āHow we analyse and test new pricing modelsā our blog
āHow we test and roll out new product featuresā our blog
You'll do great here if you:
ā¢ Have genuine interest and curiosity about the Cuvva product, and consumer insurance in general
ā¢ Enjoy working as a team to solve problems collaboratively
ā¢ Have around 5 years of experience building rock-solid backend systems and APIs
ā¢ Have a track record of shipping great quality code with real customer impact
ā¢ Be comfortable and productive working with Go
ā¢Ā We donāt require commercial Go experience but you would be expected to have a basic understanding and a willingness to learn
ā¢ Having a background with at least one statically-typed language is a good sign
ā¢Ā Know your way around the major AWS services (or similar cloud services), and have an enthusiasm for cloud services in general
ā¢Ā Be comfortable working with containers (e.g. Docker, K8S, ECR, container based CI platforms)
Perks & Benefits
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary (Ā£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
ā¢ Brand new MacBook š»
ā¢ 33 days holiday (inc public holidaysš)
ā¢ Flexible working
ā¢ Wellbeing, personal development and work from home budgets
ā¢ Yearly increases to budgets and holiday allowances
ā¢ Generous parental leave policy
ā¢ One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus mental health coaches, giving you a safe space to talk š§
ā¢ Access to Lifeworks - our mental health tool and employee assistance programme
ā¢ Mates rates on your car insurance
ā¢ Salary sacrifice schemes for electric bike hire and electric car lease
ā¢ Cycle to work scheme š²
ā¢ Season ticket loans š
ā¢ A volunteer day
ā¢ Office library full of great books š
ā¢ Great coffee machine in the office āļø
ā¢ Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge (we do team drinks every Thursday)
ā¢ Monthly team outings or remote events (so far weāve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy nights) š¤
Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain/Backend) Metrika Remote (United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland) $60,000 to $140,000 a year
July 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
We are building the world's premier Operational Intelligence platform for Blockchain. We strive to develop our systems by observing the best practices of our craft; this means writing testable, performant, easy to maintain and constantly improving code, while enabling our company to iterate our product fast and stay ahead.
These are the early days of our platform, and as a Senior Backend Engineer you will be able to contribute, influence and take ownership in significant parts of our systems. Our goal is to build a very high performance platform, capable of analyzing thousands of transactions across multiple blockchain networks in real-time.
If you are a Senior Software Engineer, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, passion for your work and would love to work with a geographically distributed team, join us!
What this position is all about:
Designing and implementing crawlers, software agents and accompanying backend services that feed our Operational Intelligence platform with hundreds of metrics pertaining to the performance and health of Blockchain networks. You will be expected to demonstrate capacity to code (or pick up competence in) Python or Golang.
Working under a Scrum or Kanban framework and releasing product increments on a continuous basis.
Owning your work. This means writing unit tests, ensuring proper containerization, observability/instrumentation and documentation for your code.
Understanding, participating and contributing to the company goals, regardless of your role. Metrika is a small company with a very inclusive culture. We are looking for people that share those values with us.
Please note: Our Engineering team is predominantly based in Europe. This position is currently open to those resident and currently able to work in the European Economic Area (EU, Norway, Liechtenstein), Switzerland, the UK as well the eastern United States/Canada (UTC-4/UTC-5 timezone)
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Metrika Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion._
Job requirements
You will need:
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Masters or higher degrees preferred.
Considerable experience in building production-grade, distributed, cloud native, asynchronous/event-based microservices-based or serverless systems, using Python, Golang, Java/C# or Scala. (At Metrika we're predominantly using Python and Golang for our services at this time.)
Excellent understanding of TDD, agile development methodology and version control.
The ability to function autonomously to solve problems, and deliver working software. Our geographic distribution requires people that can work well on their own.
The ability to communicate well with your team, both interactively and asynchronously, and that of being a positive, constructive team member.
You'll probably be a great fit if you have:
Expert knowledge of Python or Golang.
Experience with blockchain systems.
Experience with key-value, document, time series or other non-relational databases.
Experience with CI/CD.
Experience with Docker/Kubernetes or Serverless environments.
Experience with SQS/SNS, Kafka, Pulsar, RabbitMQ or other brokers.
Experience with public cloud providers, e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean etc.
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worldās largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazineās Top Company Cultures list.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
In this role, you can expect to:
Work on highly distributed and scalable systems
Participate in the constant cycle of knowledge sharing and mentoring
Manage and develop some of the biggest clusters in the world
Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies
Contribute to open-source
We are still a small team, well-funded, growing quickly and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflareās business grows. You will build tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime and response times. You will nurture a passion for an āautomate everythingā approach that makes systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
You may be a good fit for our team if:
You have proven skills of designing, developing and delivering HA scalable production systems.
You have deep knowledge of configuration management software, preferably Salt.
You have solid experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Mesos)
You are comfortable with developing software in Go or Python
You know how network services (DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP) and network fundamentals (DHCP, subnetting, routing, firewalls, IPv6, BGP) work
You have strong experience designing and managing multi-tenant database solutions (Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB)
You are confident in your knowledge with load balancers (nginx, HAProxy)
Bonus points if:
You have strong operational skills and are an expert in bash scripting
You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
Weāre not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Weāre a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflareās enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Hereās the deal - we donāt store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something youād like to be a part of? Weād love to hear from you!
Systems Engineer (DevOps) Zego London, United Kingdom Ā£65,000 to Ā£75,000 a year
October 2019
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Zego is reimagining insurance for modern businesses and the self-employed. We are building a 21st century insurance platform with which to drive innovation in the industry. In 2018 we were listed as one of the top 3 disruptors to watch on the Sunday Times Fast Track 100, we were also listed in Wired magazine as one of the 5 hottest startups in London. Weāre crafting the smartest insurance company in the world and we want you on board.
We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our team in London, where you will be part of the TechOps squad whose mission is to maintain and secure the systems and infrastructure on which our product operates. You will act as a systems and operations authority and work with other software engineers to ensure products will be secure, reliable, scalable and efficient in every aspect (performance, maintenance, cost).
Systems Engineers at Zego are ultimately responsible for the well being of the product from the moment it leaves developersā workstation. They understand the importance of efficient development processes and actively work on improving those at Zego.
We are looking for candidates who have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills,
an architect and operations minded engineer who embraces devops methodologies to improve the product and exhibit a willingness to learn and apply new technology.
Your experience should include (preferred):
Coding and scripting (Bash, Python, Golang)
Configuring Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Cloud services (AWS)
Container management and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
We offer a number of benefits to all our employees, including:
Experience of working with founders from VC backed fast-growing startups
A great office located in Shoreditch right by Old Street Roundabout
High-end equipment of your choice
A competitive compensation package including options
A company sponsored mental health program
Free breakfast in the office every Friday
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services, and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.
Skills & Requirements
Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting
Experience with algorithms, data structures and software design
Experience with UNIX operating systems internals and / or networking
Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership
Coding beyond simple scripts
Solving novel problems from first principles
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
Senior Software Engineer Hashicorp Remote (United States, Canada, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Germany) $100,000 to $190,000 a year
May 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Consul helps organizations automate network configurations, discover services, and enable secure connectivity across any cloud or runtime. We recently launched Hashicorp Consul Service on Azure, a fully managed application available through the Azure marketplace. Weāve also announced the availability of Consul on AWSthrough our flagship HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP), a self-service, fully managed platform offering HashiCorp products as a service to automate infrastructure on any cloud.
About HashiCorp
HashiCorp is a fast-growing startup that solves development, operations, and security challenges in infrastructure so organizations can focus on business-critical tasks. We build products to give organizations a consistent way to manage their move to cloud-based IT infrastructures for running their applications. Our products enable companies large and small to mix and match AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other clouds as well as on-premises environments, easing their ability to deliver new applications for their business.
At HashiCorp, we have used the Tao of HashiCorp as our guiding principles for product development and operate according to a strong set of company principles for how we interact with each other. We value top-notch collaboration and communication skills, both among internal teams and in how we interact with our users.
Engineering at HashiCorp is largely a remote team. While prior experience working remotely isn't required, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy.
About the Role:
On the Consul team, we help organizations automate network configurations, discover services, and enable secure connectivity across any cloud or runtime. The customers and large community of users of our tools are operators, infrastructure engineers, and software developers that encounter novel performance, scaling, and usability challenges that we help them solve.
Consul started as an infrastructure management tool for service discovery and health checking, and has evolved to become a full-featured service mesh. Some of the functionality youāll be working on will include proxy integrations, Envoyās xDS APIs, certificate management for mutual TLS connectivity, and security through service-oriented Intentions. Youāll be an active contributor to the service mesh ecosystem, following new developments in emerging technology and competitive offerings, looking for opportunities for product differentiation, and rethinking product architecture to meet new global scale and organizational demands.
In this role you can expect to:
Program mostly in Go, learning from and contributing to a team committed to continually improving their skills.
Build and architect distributed systems for service connectivity across heterogeneous environments (Kubernetes, VMs, bare metal datacenter or edge deployments).
Interface directly with internal teams, users and HashiCorp customers, as well as the larger Consul community.
Participate in user research studies and discussions with product managers and customers to better understand the network topologies, challenges, and constraints for which operators are trying to solve, and leverage those insights when approaching feature design and implementation.
Propose new functionality or substantive changes through written documents in an async process, describing the problem background, proposed implementation and example UX, then iterating on peer feedback collaboratively.
Own the full lifecycle of feature development from design through testing, release and support.
You may be a good fit for our team if you have:
Experience in a lower-level language like Go.
Familiarity with service-oriented architectures, and ideally have worked on an infrastructure or platform team building internal tooling to deploy, connect and monitor them.
Empathy for the people operating, learning, teaching and supporting software you write, and consider their experience when making design decisions and performance, security or complexity tradeoffs.
Awareness of the broader service mesh ecosystem and an interest in contributing to a full-featured product offering while reducing complexity and barriers to adoption for practitioners.
Curiosity for academic computer science research, particularly distributed systems papers such as Raft and Paxos variants, and enjoy learning more about the challenges of consistency at global scale.
Collaborate with peer engineers in discussions around performance, user experience, security and other constraints when designing complex systems.
What is our hiring process like?
The below serves as a basic outline; we may choose to add or remove steps based on the information that we gather during the process.
Introductory Call with someone from our recruiting team.
First Interview with an Engineering Manager
Interview Loop with additional team members, with the following panel:
Technical Code Pairing interview
Code Review interview
Communication and Collaboration interview
Systems and architecture interview
If applicable, a final conversation with the Engineering Manager for the team you would be joining
Offer
We do our best to accommodate your programming language of choice for technical interviews.
About the Application Process:
Please note, as collaboration and communication are a critical aspect of how we work, a cover letter is a great way to provide a sample of how you communicate.
In your cover letter, please describe why you're interested in working at HashiCorp, and what draws you to this role in particular. Specifics of your past experience that are relevant to this role are great to include, too.
HashiCorp embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe the more inclusive we are, the better our company will be.
Senior Software Engineer Grail London, United Kingdom Ā£80,000 to Ā£110,000 a year
September 2020
14 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Software Engineers
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
GRAIL UK is looking for experienced software engineers, senior software engineers, and staff software engineers to join the team in London. The engineering team is responsible for supporting the collaborative efforts between GRAIL and its research partners (NHS/UCL). You will work as part of a cross-functional team to design, develop and run systems that power the safe execution of clinical workflows and the collection of relevant data. Your work will support cancer research and the development of GRAILs multi-cancer early detection blood test.
You Will:
Use your experience developing front-end applications and backend systems to build software that supports cancer research
Work as part of a cross-functional team to overcome real-world problems that sometimes canāt be solved with software alone.
Build and operate the infrastructure and tooling that runs the systems and powers the team.
Work with GRAIL engineers in the United States on core platforms.
Take responsibility for the systems managed by the team and support the operational concerns of our research partners.
Your Background Includes:
You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or similar technical field.
You have relevant work experience designing, developing, testing and maintaining software.
You have worked with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
You are experienced in general-purpose programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Javascript, etc, but understand that ultimately these are tools to solve problems.
You are passionate about software engineering, as well as software engineering teams.
You have excellent logical reasoning and analytical skills, with a preference for simple solutions.
You are a strong written and verbal communicator and can adapt your communication style and the level of detail to your audience.
Software Engineer Pivotal London, United Kingdom Ā£60,000 to Ā£75,000 a year
July 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Always be kind: a simple daily affirmation and one that feels more like a personal mission statement than a corporate motto -- but Pivotal isnāt just any corporation. Underpinning our world-class capabilities in cloud-native software delivery and agile development methodologies is one common thread: empathy. Not only do we want to transform the way the world builds software, we also want to make sure that sustainable pace, kindness, and diversity are at the core of every enterprise.
Known for taking an iterative approach, our 2000+ employees are empowered every day to help shape the way we build software. Pivotal is committed to open source, a diverse culture, and fostering safe spaces for all of our individual employees.
*You*
You are looking for a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch. Pair programming has always been something that you wanted to try out.
Furthering your education has always been a goal of yours. Learning new programming languages and getting to work with Golang piques your interest.
Contributing to open source software makes you feel good about the transparency it brings to an organization's code quality.
*Us*
Agile concepts are at the core of our process. We have a whole host of Pivotal Practices around Test Driven Development, pair programming, team retrospectives, technical retrospectives and continuous integration. We are excited to teach these to you and innovate with you on their implementation.
We stick to a strict 8 hour a day schedule (with flexible start and end times). Although on-call rotations are part of most teams, incidents are exceedingly rare.
We pair in small teams of 4 - 8 people in our London office, conveniently located at Old Street. We use Slack to stay connected and Tmux for pairing. We are working hard to make sure that our distributed teams function as smoothly as our distributed systems.
You'll rarely be alone when developing; from pairing all day to 1 on 1 time with your manager, there is always a Pivot there to lend a helping hand. Mentorship from senior engineering leadership is built right into our process - youāll always be empowered.
Making an investment in each Pivotās professional development improves the organization as a whole. We encourage you to go to conferences or purchase those pricey O'Reilly books - and weāll give you a budget each year to do it.
*Your Day*
As cliche as it may sound, every day is completely different from the next. We have a general framework for what our day looks like and the majority of it will be spent with your pair:
9:06 AM - Office-wide stand-up to build office cohesion and start the day off together.
9:10 AM - Team standup - discuss any blockers, choose pairs, maybe even tell a joke.
9:30-12:30 PM - Start pairing, tackle an open GitHub issue and open a pull-request.
12:30-1:30 PM - Lunch! Grab food from one of the many nearby restaurants, run an errand, or join a book club.
1:31-6:00 PM - Get back with your pair and start an acceptance test for a big feature.
While that schedule does look busy, donāt worry - we take ample breaks throughout the day. Take a walk to get boba, read a book on the balcony, play a game of ping pong, or chat with co-workers at the snack bar. Sustainable pace is held in high regard. We know there is a life outside of work, we want you to be able to spend time with family and friends.
*Desired Skills / Experience*
We know from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. You should apply regardless of your self-assessment because we want to hear from you.
Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learn
Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
Interest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patterns
Demonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete parts
*Nice to Haves*
BA/BS in Computer Science or related field
Operations or Systems Administration experience, particularly on UNIX
Worked with large Go/Ruby/Rails codebases
Used Test Driven Development (TDD) extensively
Worked in a pair programming environment
Contributed to an open source project
On-call experience with production grade systems
Has mentored others in a professional setting
Cloud Foundry engineers participate in an on-call rotation with their team to support software they work on.
Pivotal is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.