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Senior Backend Engineer Plexy Remote (Americas) $100,000 to $135,000 a year
February 2022
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our mission is to help software teams get more done. Over the past decade there has been an explosion of specialized tooling in the enterprise. It’s putting the burden on each of us to jump between different apps and tabs to get our work done and at the end of the day we’re wasting valuable time. We believe there is a better way. Our ambition is bold: build the best platform for software teams to get their work done.
We’re just getting started and are looking to grow the team to help us accomplish our mission. We love what we do and are motivated by working on a product that we enjoy using ourselves. You would have an immediate impact as a builder and user influencing product. You would join the early team as a founding engineer and have full ownership working closely with our founders. Come join us!
Who we’re looking for
We are looking for a full-time backend engineer. Our ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience building event driven micro-services or service oriented architectures and has built most facets, if not all, in a twelve-factor app. Preference is for real experience (2+ years) in our primary language of Golang, but other languages are considered when able to quickly pick up new technologies. Additional experience in integrating with 3rd party systems, event-driven architecture, databases, and cloud services (AWS, GCP, etc) are important.
You will directly influence how and what to build, and must be comfortable collaborating on the architecture, code, product, etc as we have a strong culture of devops as well as being technically curious, thoughtful and purposeful in what we build. We value deploying frequently with well-written, maintainable, instrumented and tested code to a kubernetes cluster.
**Responsibilities: **
* Develop new products and features in a small team
* Collaboration with the team to solve technical problems and help shape the product direction
* Provide technical input and knowledge to the planning, design, and requirements process for new products and features
* Review other software engineers' code for correctness, style, and completeness
* Support your team's production software by responding to an occasional alert or bug report
* Write integration tests and work with our product team to ensure the operation and correctness of new features
Requirements:
* 5+ years of backend engineering in a distributed systems
* 2+ years in Golang or 5+ using several languages you were able to quickly pick up
* Strong knowledge of a variety of database systems (Graph, relational etc.)
* Experience working with 3rd party APIs and OAuth
* Comfortable with strong dev ops culture
* Strong communication skills in English and experience working as part of a remote team
* Need to be located in timezones UTC-4 through UTC-8 (The Americas)
* Excited to travel internationally for company retreats (twice a year)
* Favorite Ted Lasso quote
Who Are We?
We love what we do: designing and building great products. But our work isn't the only thing that defines us. We're not trying to create some semi-cult to get people to work here. We simply enjoy working together and building useful and beautiful software for our customers. We’re a venture-backed, pre-launch startup and are looking for someone who is excited about this stage of building a product and having a real impact on the company’s success.
You would join a group of repeat founders. We have founded and worked at startups that raised a bunch of money from top VCs. While that has its advantages (hire lots of amazing people, spend money on ads and cool perks…) it also puts a company on a very narrow success path. It's very binary, since venture investors have a binary return profile (they succeed if their investments sell for billions). So we decided to do it a little differently this time. Where growth isn't the only goal of a company. Where it's balanced with the goal of being default-alive and capital-efficient which leaves doors open and avoids the trap of forced binary outcomes.
We are looking to bring on a Backend Engineer to join our FinTech practice. Backend Engineers will work with our frontend, mobile, and design teams to design and build the services that perform a variety of different banking and financial operations. The ideal candidate is a self-motivated engineer with experience shipping reliable, performant, scalable, and instrumented services. We are looking for a teammate that enjoys mentoring teammates and working closely with users.
Responsibilities:
• Partner with multiple internal and external teams to design, develop, and deliver scalable solutions
• Build backend systems using Go, Docker, Postgres, and AWS
• Plan, triage, and prioritize work across multiple projects and clients
• Plan, build, and maintain test infrastructure
• Share your knowledge with teammates and help mentor and guide clients
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience building backend systems
• 3+ years of experience with SQL
• Experience designing and developing distributed systems and event driven architectures is preferred
• Strong communication skills
Backend Engineer Launch Darkly Oakland, California, United States $105,000 to $155,000 a year
February 2021
7 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
As a Backend Engineer, you will help us build features, design and implement API methods, and improve the performance and reliability of our systems. We're looking for someone who knows what it takes to deliver value to customers and takes pride in the quality of their work.
Our platform serves over twenty billion feature flags daily. The core technologies we use daily include Golang, React, Redux, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, HAProxy, and NATS.
As part of our you-build-it-you-run-it culture, all developers may be responsible of support applications in production, including on-call. On call is compensated in addition.
What you'll get to do:
Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
Collaborate with frontend engineers to deliver user-facing features
Monitor and improve server-side performance
Write unit, integration, and load tests as necessary
Actively participate in code reviews
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
On day one, you should have:
Proven experience and fluency with server-side web development (e.g. in Java / Scala, Ruby, Python, Golang, Node.js)
Experience building RESTful APIs
Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, distributed systems, concurrency, and threading
Strong communication skills, a positive attitude, and empathy
You write code that can be easily understood by others, with an eye towards maintainability
You hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
You value high code quality, automated testing, and other engineering best practices
Bonus Points:
Experience with NoSQL databases (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
A deep understanding of networking technologies (TCP, HTTP, websockets, server-sent events, etc.)
About LaunchDarkly:
LaunchDarkly is a Feature Management Platform that serves hundreds of billions of feature flags daily to help software teams build better software, faster. Feature flagging is an industry standard methodology of wrapping a new or risky section of code or infrastructure change with a flag. Each flag can easily be turned off independent of code deployment (aka "dark launching"). LaunchDarkly has SDKs for all major web and mobile platforms. We are building a diverse team so that we can offer robust products and services. Our team culture is dynamic, friendly, and supportive. Our headquarters are in Oakland.
At LaunchDarkly, we believe in the power of teams. We're building a team that is humble, open, collaborative, respectful and kind. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
We've partnered with KeyValues to help demonstrate the amazing culture we've built here at LaunchDarkly, find more info at https://www.keyvalues.com/launchdarkly
LaunchDarkly offers:
Full Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
Unlimited vacation
Flexible schedule & work environment
Healthy lunches & snacks every day.
Conference & meetups as an opportunity for everyone.
A yearly education stipend for conferences and classes on your own.
A budget to personalize your work station.
A location in downtown Oakland, just steps from public transportation
Sr. Video Engineer Frame New York City, United States / Remote (United States) $125,000 to $150,000 a year
January 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About Frame
Frame.io is changing the future of how videos are made by helping over 1 million creative professionals seamlessly collaborate from all over the world.
We’re backed by Accel, FirstMark, Insight Partners, SignalFire, Jared Leto, and a host of other amazing investors. Our market-leading product is used and loved by companies such as Turner, Disney, NASA, Snapchat, BBC, BuzzFeed, TED, Adobe, Udemy, and many more.
We’re in an exciting period of growth and are always seeking extremely talented and passionate individuals who share our vision for helping visual content creators produce their best work.
About the Role
Engineers at Frame.io are creative, technical people making beautiful and powerful tools to help other creative, technical people to do their best work. We have to be—Frame.io is the thread that runs through the entire video post-production process.
We're looking for a media focused systems engineer to join our growing engineering team. You'll work in an autonomous group that builds cloud-based services to power our entire media processing and delivery pipeline: the service at the very core of the Frame.io product. You will prototype innovative ideas and look to continuously optimize and enhance our media pipeline.
Some projects members of this team have built recently include:
An HLS and Dash streaming video service, built using Cloudfront, Lambda@Edge and API Gateway.
An on-the-fly watermarking system, encoding segments within Lambda functions.
A PDF page extraction service, generating up-to 4k images per page of a PDF.
We also have some very exciting initiatives around live capture from multiple sources into the Frame.io cloud. We rely heavily on AWS services to build these systems; in fact our whole video encoding process was recently the subject of an in-depth AWS showcase that you can check out HERE.
As a team we work with petabytes of data, hundreds of thousands of video encodes per day, and the challenges and demands that come from working at the very forefront of delivering Enterprise grade secure review experiences. This is a great opportunity to enhance your cloud computing knowledge; you'll be expected to design, build, and maintain cloud-based services that our client teams and customers consume.
Requirements
Experience working in Go (Golang), Python, Java, or C++.
A background working with video or image processing.
Past experience with Cloud Computing platforms: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google App Engine or similar.
Past experience working with distributed systems, especially in a media business.
Great communication skills are a must.
Bonus points if you have
Worked across the full multimedia streaming and playback stack
Knowledge / understanding of audio video encoding such as H.264, AAC, HEVC, AV1 or streaming formats such as HLS, MPEG-DASH and also live streaming.
Experience with DRM and HLS-AES.
Knowledge of advanced and emerging video standards such as HDR10, Dolby Vision, 360 videos.
Experience in analyzing and improving performance of CDN infrastructure
Responsibilities
You'll work to plan, design, and execute new end-to-end multimedia-focused services and infrastructure for our customers and web, mobile and platform teams.
You'll work closely with other client and service teams to deliver your services. This means partnering to make sure you're designing clear APIs and well defined contracts. Ideally, you'd also learn to work throughout our tech stack.
You'll be responsible for running and maintaining the services you build – that means being on-call and accountable for meeting defined SLAs.
You'll be educating the wider engineering team on video engineering and the work you do.
You'll receive close guidance and mentorship from our engineering managers and leads, as well as code reviews from your peers.
Benefits
Competitive salary and equity
Paid parental leave for primary or secondary caregivers
Unlimited PTO and designated Volunteering paid time off
Work From Anywhere Week
Yearly stipend for learning and development
Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance and OneMedical membership
Pre-tax commuter benefit and Flexible Spending Account
Daily catered lunch & fully stocked kitchen with cold brew on tap
Discounted gym membership, Classpass discount and Free Citi-Bike membership
Our Philosophy
Our philosophy is simple. At Frame.io, we believe that working with people of different backgrounds and perspectives allows us to elevate each other and helps us build a better product for our users.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and are committed to providing all employees with a work environment that celebrates individuality and remains free from any form of discrimination and harassment. We base our employment decisions on the needs of our business, job requirements, and applicants' qualifications. In other words, we only care that you’re the best person for the job.
Software Developer - Backend GRAX Remote, US $130,000 to $200,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Software Engineer - Backend
About GRAX
At GRAX, it’s all about data. We help our customers secure and drive value across their ever expanding enterprise SaaS data footprint. Initially, we're focused on Salesforce, the wildly popular CRM platform used by the world's most successful companies. We capture and retain every data change over time, so it can be stored, processed and analyzed using the full power of AWS, Azure and GCP.
GRAX is a well-funded Series A startup. We’re one of the fastest growing partners in the Salesforce ecosystem with revenues more than doubling year-over-year.
Who we are
GRAX was founded by serial entrepreneurs with a long history of success in the Salesforce ecosystem. The product and engineering organization is led by veterans in cloud platform development, including some of the key architects behind Heroku.
About the role
The Backend team builds and maintains the core distributed data pipeline that slurps data from SaaS APIs, secures it for safekeeping before transforming and routing it to its final destination. As an engineer on this team you can expect to:
Program mostly in Go (golang.org) within a group of experienced developers committed to learning, sharing and continual improvement.
Work closely with internal teams from PM through Customer Success - and occasionally directly with customers.
Own the full lifecycle of specific features and product areas from design to release
You may be a good fit if…
You have experience with large scale data processing
You have built or operated a large cloud service
You have prior experience working with distributed systems with a focus on reliability and resiliency.
You have extensive experience building on AWS, GCP and/or Azure.
What it’s like to work here
Founded in Boston, GRAX is a remote-first, distributed team. We value collaboration, communication and accountability. You’ll be offered a competitive salary, equity, full health benefits incl. dependents and unlimited PTO.
GRAX 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.
Perks & Benefits
Full health benefits, including dependents. Unlimited PTO. Equity. Competitive salary.
Meredith Corporation is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to continue building its advertising platform. As a key member of our development team, you will be responsible for extending, architecting, documenting, improving and building all our Backend Services, as well as some Frontend services, including our proprietary Ads Server, Analytics, Tracking and Reporting Systems. Your first project in this role will consist of integrating our different Shopper Backend Services with multiple Big-Box Retailers to handle, build and deliver meaningful context-based Ads across our own-and-operated network in real time.
II. Essential Job Functions
20%
Participate in build out of proprietary Ads Serving platform for Backend and Frontend services.
20%
Implement code, write unit tests and participate in code reviews.
30%
Design and develop software in Go.
10%
Design and develop software in TypeScript and VueJS.
20%
Analyze business processes to identify product improvements.
100%
III. Minimum Qualifications and Job Requirements | All must be met to be considered.
Education:
Bachelor in Computer Systems or equivalent years of professional experience.
Experience:
Excellent problem solving and communication.
Strong experience in Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns.
Strong experience in Testing: mocking and stubbing.
Strong experience using Git.
Strong experience with data modeling and SQL (PostgreSQL 10.5+, MySQL 5.2+).
Experience with NoSQL databases (Key Value, Document-Oriented, etc).
Experience building and designing highly scalable distributed systems.
Comfortable working in a fast paced and agile environment.
Constantly seeking ways to improve the platform.
Specific Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Experience with the Go toolchain (mod, build, install, test, cover, etc).
Experience with Amazon Web Services (Cloudformation, MSK, Elasticache, Redshift, EMR, Kinesis, ECS, etc).
Experience with HTML, CSS/SASS, AJAX, TypeScript and VueJS 2.0.
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
Experience with gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
Experience with NewRelic, Amazon Cloudwatch and Splunk.
Experience with OpenAPI 2.0 (fka Swagger).
Experience with Docker.
Advertising Experience.
It is the policy of Meredith to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Meredith will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
Senior Backend Engineer Attest London, United Kingdom £70,000 to £100,000 a year
September 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Welcome! We’re Attest: a Consumer Growth Platform. We’re 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.
We’re spearheaded by a bunch of awesome individuals, and our guess is that you’re pretty awesome, too. We’re ultra-proud of the inclusive company we’ve built to date. Attest is not just an exciting place to work alongside great people, but a feeling – one of belonging and adventure. We’re delighted that you’ve 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 you’ll 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 we’ll 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 – whether you prefer a MacBook or a Windows machine, we’ll 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 – **we care about our team’s wellbeing, so we make sure you have time to fully switch off, rest, and recharge;
**Flexible working hours and working from home – ** whether you have parental responsibilities, just need some headspace, or have a parcel being delivered, we’ll 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 – 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 – Mental health and physical health are treated equally at Attest. Whether you’ve 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 they’re 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?...We’re always on the look-out for interesting, bright folk to join our team of Attesters. Connect with us to stay in touch, and we’ll notify you when we have new opportunities.
About our people and culture
Attest is a place where you’re 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.
We’re 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.
We’re backed by leading VCs, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) – 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! We’re building an inclusive place to work where everyone feels they belong. We see you and you’re welcome here. Attest doesn’t 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 you’d like to make to ensure it’s more inclusive – we’re learning too, so we’re more than happy to adapt and accommodate where possible.
Cloud Architect Ori London, United Kingdom £70,000 to £90,000 a year
July 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Curious about distributed computing? Deploying on top of Kubernetes? Writing in GO? So are we!
Ori provides developers, networks and infrastructure owners with a software-defined edge platform to deploy, onboard & manage edge computing nodes over multiple environments and geographies.
We work with networks, big and small, to build the future of communication. Based in central London, we are searching for a hands on Cloud Architect with experience with cloud-native technologies to join a growing team of driven entrepreneurs. We are looking for candidates interested in driving technology choices, designing core architectures and bringing their experience to support the team and the development of our edge computing platform.
Promises
Support your personal development, prioritising growth in knowledge around technology
Build an environment that encourages individual autonomy within a close-knit team
Provide constant technical challenges or puzzles requiring creative thinking & problem solving
Encourage the proactive use of new technologies and processes
Responsibilities
Set the technical direction for cloud and networking technologies and the implementation of a distributed compute solution
Research and suggest updates to process and technology regularly to stay relevant
Mentor the team, building an environment that supports communication and collaboration aligned with our company values
Perform technical reviews and provide solution designs to the Engineering team
Work directly with partners to translate network integration requirements into product features
Design solutions with network virtualisation tools and cloud-native principles
Ensure software is designed and implemented for quality, robustness and scale
Take ownership and responsibility of production-ready code
Contribute to and ensure the completion of code development so that product releases reach general availability on time
Expectations
Experience and understanding of production-ready services in a Cloud-like environment
Understanding of architectural designs and impacts resulting in real-world implementation
Hands-on experience working building large scale web or cloud architectures
Continued development experience; writing code, tests, and debugging issues
Strong grasp of core architectural, programming principles and networking
Experience with Go or similar languages (Java, C/C++, Rust)
Demonstrable architectural concepts (SOA, Containerization) with coding and handling services through Docker
Experience with Kubernetes or similar systems (Swarm, Nomad)
Track record in multiple configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
Exposure to open source networking projects in the realm of cloud, PaaS/IaaS, containerization and distributed computing
Awareness of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Experience of modern deployment & associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and release methodologies including automated configuration to design, build & provision at scale
Evidence of design and delivery of different scales of digital technical architectures resulting in real-world implementation
Passion for good documentation of processes and architectures, alongside open communication
Interested? Ping over your CV, Github profile or any other relevant work you want to share.
We believe diversity and inclusion make us a better company, and we embrace equal employment opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, opinions and skills.
We are looking for Senior Software Developers who want to help build the next generation payment API in the cloud.
We'd like to hear from enthusiastic polyglot developers who want to work with the latest technologies, solve interesting problems and be part of a really great team. There are a wide range of problems to tackle, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic, and we contribute open source back to the community. We believe that the language you write the code in is just how you convey your solution to the computer and the real value is being able to think through a problem.
You will be working on new development projects, focused on best practice across the board, including automation of absolutely everything (Terraform for infrastructure deployments to AWS, CI/CD with contract-based testing and auto-deployment of services within Docker containers, etc.), pair programming and TDD/BDD. Although many of us live around London, we are operating as a remote team, and typically working from home and pair programming.
It’s very much a “best tool for the job” mentality at Form3 and our tech-stack is always evolving but to give you a flavour of what we’re currently working with here are some of the tools we use;
Some of the languages we currently use are: Golang, Java, Python and Ruby
Some of the tools we use: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Vault, Consul, Linkerd
Our platform runs in AWS where we use: SQS, SNS, EC2, ECS, RDS and others
We don’t mind whereabouts you are based as we offer the opportunity for our team to work remotely from anywhere in the UK or EU. In fact, most of our Developers work, utilising screen-share technology and pair-programming to share knowledge across the team. That being said, we also have London and Amsterdam offices, so should you occasionally wish to work from these, you'd be most welcome.
Your Experience
Polyglot: Choosing the right tool to solve the problem is critical, and we expect you to have professional experience with at least 2 different programming languages and multiple platforms and tools.
Distributed architecture: We expect you to have previous experience engineering complex distributed systems, and a view on topics such as service discovery, integration testing, inter-process communication, how to define your services and APIs, as well as experience with distributed data stores.
Public cloud: You have worked with public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud etc.)
TDD/BDD: Code quality is key, and we expect you to have worked with Test-driven development (TDD) and Behaviour-driven development (BDD) and be familiar with the use of tools such as Cucumber.
Desirable Experience
Most of our code is written in Java and Go, so experience with either would be helpful.
All our services are built and managed as docker containers, so Kubernetes, and general docker experience is preferred.
We like clean code, so experience with Event Sourcing/CQRS will be useful.
We do contract-based testing, using tools such as Pact.
We work as a devops team, so experience in automating operations (such as infrastructure as code, automated monitoring and alerting, build pipelines etc) would also be useful.
Whilst experience of the above technologies would be nice, it is by no means essential. We are looking to speak with well-rounded software professionals who have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages, are passionate about tech and enjoy working collaboratively within a team.
Perks & Benefits
100% Remote
30 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
Pair programming, with an experienced team of engineers
Software Engineer (Go) Utility Warehouse Colindale, London, United Kingdom / Remote £45,000 to £90,000 a year
April 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
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.
Key responsibilities
Design, architect and build multi-channel platform solutions
Contribute ideas and influence business wide solution architecture
Build robust and scalable end-to-end software solutions
Participate in the entire development life cycle, from requirements to delivery
Influence other team members in a cross functional product team
Build integrations with legacy systems with a focus on eventually moving away from them
Key requirements
Good engineering skill with an eye for both modelling and code architecture
Knowledge of when and how to apply test driven approaches
Understanding of microservice/service oriented and distributed architectures
Understanding of event source and/or event driven architectures
Belief in agile principles and a devops culture and be familiar working in a agile enviornment
Experience with a modern programming language (preferably golang)
Experience with containers and container orchestration technology will be beneficial but not essential
Interview Process
Hangout with engineering manager, pairing interview and whiteboard (non-algorithmic)