Company
Utility Warehouse is a FTSE 250 organisation which has established itself as the most trusted supplier of utility products in the UK. Utility Warehouse is the only genuine multi-utility operator in the market providing gas, electricity, landline, broadband, mobile & insurance products and services to households and businesses nationwide, all on one single monthly bill. With over 600,000 customers the organisation has grown through a philosophy of offering savings, simplicity and service. Customers enjoy a number of advantages, including membership of a discount club, and a unique CashBack reward system on everyday shopping. The organisation does not advertise, preferring instead to invest in customer services and to keep prices low. Utility Warehouse has predominantly grown through a network of over 45,000 partners who operate as lead generators and advocates for the organisation. These partners come from a range of personal and professional backgrounds, and actively take it upon themselves to promote and recommend Utility Warehouse to friends, families and their professional networks. Trust between these partners and the organisation is crucial, and ensures that customer service and satisfaction are consistently prioritised.
Background
Utility Warehouse is an energetic and entrepreneurial challenger in a market traditionally composed of monolithic, slow competitors. In the utilities market, it is difficult to compete on the quality of the product and therefore establishing a strong value proposition is crucial to avoid a race to the bottom on price. Utility Warehouse has established itself as the most trusted brand in its sector, winning accolades from industry publications and consumer advisory guides. Customer service is at the core of their business ethos and another way they differentiate from their competitors; 93% of customers would recommend the organisation to a friend. By establishing a best-in-class experience for the consumer, Utility Warehouse commands a strong market position in an age where technology makes it increasingly easy to access information on consumers’ experiences. The organisation is well-placed to capture an increasingly large portion of the £52bn market that they operate in. By staying true to their values of trust and service, Utility Warehouse is the only major provider in the market to be both growing and profitable.
Utility Warehouse has an adaptive, agile, fast-paced culture which has enabled it to grow rapidly. The management team has expanded over the last two years as part of the growth strategy with significant hires in technology, legal, marketing, and finance. These hires and the rebuilding of the platform will enable the company to grow to two million customers over the medium-term. Utility Warehouse operates at high-transactional scale, processing large volumes of data. This presents new opportunities to understand customer behaviours better and to create an improved customer experience as a result.
Opportunity
With ambitious product plans for the future, it is important to have a solid foundation to enable growth for the business, allow innovation and achieve rapid time to market. To realise this, the underlying platforms and systems must be designed to be flexible, modular and resilient.
You will join our Insurance team tasked with designing and building the insurance platform from the ground up to enable new opportunities to our insurance product and services.
The platform will be a set of simple and intelligent APIs built using microservices and event driven architectures. Internally, the decision and rating engines will leverage integration with numerous 3rd party systems to provide quotes, offer addons, allow policy uptake and operational management.
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Hangout with engineering manager, pairing interview and whiteboard (non-algorithmic)
⎘ Copy Link ↗ Visit LinkAbout HousingAnywhere
HousingAnywhere.com is the biggest global booking platform for mid-term rental accommodation in the world. Being a peer-to-peer marketplace, we create an experience that serves both sides of the rental accommodation market and creates a direct connection between tenants and landlords. HousingAnywhere.com is active in 50+ countries and 400+ cities. We are partners with 160+ universities worldwide and currently target the international students and young professionals market. We are expanding to other audiences as well.
In 2017, we were awarded 4th most innovative company in the Netherlands and the 1st most innovative company in Rotterdam by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
In 2018, we have been honored by being the fastest growing propTech company in the Netherlands as part of the Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte.
The team
Our engineering team consists of a group of 30 people (product leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers), all passionate about our expertise.
Within the engineering team, we are organized in multiple cross-functional teams. By applying for this role, you will have the chance to become part of the Platform team.
We, the Platform team, are responsible for the core application of HousingAnywhere and are the team where it all started for HousingAnywhere. Here you’ll find those we call the “dinosaurs” of HousingAnywhere. Djordy, our CEO, started our team back when he was Head of Product.
We have ownership of listing management (listing creation, calendar management and listing representation) and also of chat and bookings functionalities. Down the line, everything we do should add to conversions and should help HousingAnywhere grow to be the number 1 market place for students and young professionals in the world.
Our mission as a team is to provide high-quality matching between tenants and landlords and to drive trust between the users of the marketplace. We think about these challenges every day in order to build a world-class product. If this sounds interesting to you, don't hesitate to read on.
About your role and impact in the platform team
HousingAnywhere has entered a scale-up phase in which we have seen impressive growth in terms of bookings and liquidity in the marketplace. This growth has brought us many technical challenges. On one end of the stack we build features and improvements to optimize conversions, on the other end we are making our infrastructure more resilient for future growth.
Some of the challenges we are tackling:
On the frontend side:
Consolidate our React based frontend with tests and consistent design Provide users with a more fulfilling mobile experience through PWA technologies and principles Integrate real-time technology to deliver content to users quickly Continuously improve SEO through performance and content delivery
On the backend side:
Pragmatically redesigning the core system to identify services and run them outside the main monolith Moving the core platform to Kubernetes and continuous deployment Rethinking the way we represent and store data to allow easier integrations through events and denormalization Monitoring and improving the performance of our private API. Your role in the team is to contribute to solving these challenges by implementing solutions and assisting our team so that our innovative technology can support future business needs.
As a Senior Software Engineer we expect you to mentor our less senior team members and to work closely with our team lead and PO to help them solve technical challenges they face.
We also expect you to challenge our choices and practices by bringing your opinion in the mix, because only by rethinking our best practices we can really evolve as people and as a company.
Our stack
In frontend we are React lovers. We use Redux, CSS-in-JS, TypeScript, NodeJS and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database. We’re currently moving our backend to a service-oriented architecture (microservices). Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform. We've been using React, GraphQL and Golang in production environments since the early days. Since a few years we’ve started using Kubernetes and nowadays all our new services run in the cluster.
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We're a small team of smart, friendly people who collaborate closely and take pride in delivering amazing software and providing extraordinary customer support. You’ll help shape what we work on and how we do it. You won’t be micro-managed or stuck in a rut. We work hard on challenging problems and have a good time doing it. We believe focusing on automation, testing and code quality enables us to move faster than our competitors whilst delivering better software.
We are looking for motivated, intelligent problems solvers who ❤️ code to join our close-knit engineering team. We pride ourselves in getting our engineers up and running fast – expect to build and deploy your first feature in week one!
*What will I be working on?*
You will be identifying ways to improve our overall architecture and lead from the front on deliverying on new technical solutions. Focusing on the daily routines and working practices you will be helping delivery on this identified work, slice stories and minimise technical risk as you build these new features.
More broadly, with happy customers on long term contracts we are investing in our platform to prepare for the next phase of our journey. You will be a key contributor to the evolution of the platform to support ambitious plans to grow market share and launch new products.
Our technology stack
We use the best tools for the job and you'll have full input into what our stack evolves into. We're currently using:
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For us, digital transformation is constant - not a one-off event. It’s our obsession. And it’s how we forever evolve our technology to improve the lives of our customers. We continually experiment with ways to make our journeys more intuitive, simple and enjoyable. And we’re constantly testing and trialing ways to give customers faster access to our services, more flexibility - and the richest, most rewarding experience.
All you need is the right mindset and the desire to help us create award-winning digital experiences – we work at pace, we love ideas and collaborate on agile project.
About the role
We're looking for a talented and enthusiastic Software Engineer (Innovation) to join our innovation team in London, bringing with you a broad range of experiences and a passion for modern development technologies and practices. As an Innovation Software Engineer you'll be part of innovation team, building and testing great products that delight, transform and have a revolutionary impact on our business.
Working as part of the Innovation team and collaborating with teams across the Digital department to solve business problems - internal and external; by coming up with creative solutions and employing future technologies that can have revolutionary impact on our bottom line.
Your key skills and experience will ideally include:
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We're looking for someone who has: - At least 5 years of software engineering experience with open source contributions. - Written structured, high-quality programs and scripts for automation. - Significant experience writing Golang or the ability and desire to become proficient in new languages. - Experience developing, releasing, and maintaining production software and infrastructure tools like Elastic stack, InfluxDB stack, DataDog, PagerDuty, or VictorOps. - Built solutions with a broad set of technologies in and around cloud solutions (AWS EC2, ECS, Route53, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, Docker, - Google Container Engine, Kubernetes or Docker Swarm). - Implemented continuous deployment before (Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, Ansible, Chef, Puppet). - Experience with SDLC tools (Git, GitHub, Atlassian Stash/Bitbucket, GitLab, JIRA). - Experience with QA/SIT tools (Selenium). - Experience in Linux System administration including package management, network management, and security management. - Familiarity with open source P2P networking protocols. - Experience working in an agile development environment. - The ability to take ownership and see initiatives through. - Exceptional communication skills. - Experience working with distributed teams.
What your primary responsibilities will be: - Help scale software systems with automation, in an effort to improve reliability, velocity, and simplicity. - Create, maintain, and improve the tooling for continuous integration and continuous delivery. - Build and maintain tooling for deploying, monitoring, and maintaining clusters of Tendermint nodes on our testnets and mainnets. - Build and maintain tooling to help shorten feedback cycles within teams and projects. - Plan, build, and maintain public facing services in association with business goals. - Build tools to measure and monitor availability, latency and overall system health.
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We’re FinLeap, a Fintech company builder based in Berlin and active in more than ten countries. Along with our passionate co-founders, we launch several startups per year. Our environment is diverse, exciting, fast-paced and changing every day. We’re now looking for a Senior Backend Engineer (m/f) for one of our new ventures.
If you're looking for an innovative, dynamic, agile and international environment to work in become part of our eco-system with 13 different products.
Your Role & Responsibilities: - Responsible for the design and development of backend services - Work with cutting-edge technologies in an agile environment - Part of a collaborative international team of highly skilled technical experts, who inspire each other in their daily work - Evaluate different approaches and methodologies in development, finding the best ways to develop and ship new ideas - Work on the API development with external providers and manage complex integrations - Understand patterns of microservices architecture and have already applied them successfully - Take ownership of important components and continuously work to improve them
Our Perfect Match - 3+ years of experience in backend development - Knowledge of front end frameworks is a plus - Familiar with technologies like Node, Scala, Golang, Java and project management - Constantly improve your working environment by researching and applying new technologies - Experience in building RESTful APIs, data processing technologies and continuous deployment and delivery - Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database technologies - Familiar with test frameworks and you are used to test while coding - Familiar with different cloud providers and their products and always ensure security in your implementations - Embody the culture of excellent troubleshooting, communication and documentation - Good communication skills, with a high proficiency in English.
About This Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, testing, and deployment of products that help companies communicate with their customers in deep and personal ways. We service over 30,000 API requests per second and our SDK is installed on over 2 billion devices around the world. We are a small team <15 engineers and our technology stack is built in Ruby on Rails, Scala, and Python, running on Cassandra, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, and Kafka. We containerize and deploy with Kubernetes on AWS.
Success in this role requires:
-5 or more years software development experience, preferably for a B2B SaaS product and/or in a successful startup environment. -Expert level familiarity with Ruby or Scala. -Experience with a broad range of tools, frameworks, and libraries; including one or more of Big Data and Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Service--Oriented Architectures, NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB), ElasticSearch, Kafka, and Distributed Computing. The curiosity and desire to stay current on these and related rapidly evolving topics. -Expertise in REST and API design. -BA/BS degree in computer science or related experience. -Participation in 24/7 on-call rotation for monitoring of system status and resolution of critical issues & outages. -Self-directed, with a sense of urgency and a bias for action and data-based decision making. -Close attention to detail and commitment to building high quality, scalable products. -A commitment to lean/agile development that focuses on customer value delivery, low latency engineering practices, and individual developer ownership. -The ability and desire to collaborate closely with other developers and members of the Apptentive team. The belief that diverse teams do better work. -A willingness to work directly with customers to investigate and resolve issues, gather product feedback, and learn about new use cases and features.
About Apptentive
Apptentive helps thousands of companies build deeper, more meaningful relationships with millions of people around the world. We believe software is powering more relationships than ever before and that we can help make software about People. We’re building the platform to power customer communication for the modern business. We’re a rapidly growing, well-funded startup based in Seattle that’s passionate about building great products with a fun, dedicated hard-working team.
What We Offer Competitive salary and equity packages Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and generous family leave policies 401k, HRA/FSA and monthly Orca pass Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% premiums paid Paid professional development (conferences/courses) A chance to build something great with other amazing people
How We Work We have ownership on how we complete work and take responsibility for our outcomes We are creative in how we approach problems and deliver pragmatically We share information and learn from each other We pride ourselves on being adaptable because change is a constant We focus on the customer to give them a voice We make mistakes, learn and improve as we iterate
How We Do Not Work We are not aggressive or competitive with each other, and we greatly appreciate diverse thinking We are not defined by our roles. We get opportunities to work on new areas to expand our knowledge and abilities We don’t work at all hours, because we have friends and families, and they are important to us
Apptentive is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.
This position is based at Apptentive in Downtown Seattle and offers competitive salary and benefits.
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uSwitch’s purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. We’re a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.
What you might be working on:
We pride ourselves in delivering accessible, performant, and functional experiences to the consumer, hopefully you do too.
The things we look for in you:
You want to grow within your career and are looking for a place that lets you have immediate, meaningful impact - we deploy up to 150 times a day
Care about the product life cycle and the lifetime value of the customer - without our customers we wouldn’t have a business
Passionate about accessibility, performance, UX, and A/B testing
Pragmatic and deliver thoughtful and awesome solutions to solve business problems
Have had experience or want to have experience working in diverse, cross functional agile teams - we value people that want to push themselves into unknown territories
Want to be involved in the larger engineering community, and contribute back to that community through open source projects and conferences
Have a deep understanding of web applications and the surrounding stacks
We aren’t wedded to languages, but you should know how an application works for a customer :)
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at uSwitch even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
A competitive salary and bonus package
A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
The latest equipment - be it a Linux or Apple or Windows machine
Free breakfast, healthy snacks, coffee and soft drinks
Paid parental leave for those key moments in your life
We have lots of other great benefits within the business, these are just a few of them
Health insurance
Moving day off, birthday day off, charitable day off
In office gym and pilates + yoga classes
Flexi holiday policy
Bike to work scheme
Season ticket loans for those long commutes
Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
1 month full paid paternity leave to spend more time with the kids
We also want to help you with your life events, so offer interest free loans for special moments in your life like moving home, buying your first home and your wedding
Our application process is outlined here - so if you’re interested in reading about it in more detail go check it out!
Our interview process comprises of 3 steps, after which we will give you an offer. We will always give you feedback along the way as we value it within the company just as much as you will when you are interviewing :)