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Software Engineer Ravelin London, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ85,000 a year
August 2019
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
DESCRIPTION
Ravelin is pioneering the use of machine learning in the prevention of e-commerce fraud and has been very successful in the four years we have been in operation. Companies all over the world are accepting more transactions with fewer chargebacks thanks to our machine learning-based approach to fraud prevention.
THE ROLE
Ravelin is looking for a Software Engineer to own the development of a high volume fraud technology platform within a small tech team. You will be encouraged to have opinions about the strategic direction of the company and products, as well as owning the development team from the front.
In the day-to-day work, youâll be working closely with our skilled engineers to build internal processes that are so reliable they melt into the background and run software at scale under real-world conditions.
Ravelin also encourages learning and development of new and existing skills (machine learning, neural networks, python, Golang, cloud automation etc).
RESPONSIBILITIES
Developing reliable and resilient software
Working closely with Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Product Managers
Build internal process and tools
Build microservice architecture using Go
Contribute with ideas and suggestions
REQUIREMENTS
Substantial and demonstrable experience in a programming language(s)
Understanding of data structures and algorithms
Experience with Database (design principles)
Working experience with testing and quality
Knowledge of Version control
Preferable:
Experience with Golang
Knowledge of Cloud technologies (GCP, AWS, or Azure)
Agile software development
Micro-services architecture
Containerisation (Docker, KVM, Kubernetes, etc)
Knowledge of CI/CD
Perks & Benefits
BENEFITS
Competitive Salary & Equity Package
25 days time off plus holidays
Fortnightly demos/updates
Fortnightly team lunches and regular company socials
Senior Software Engineer Synthace London, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are looking for a software engineer to continue developing and scaling our products and infrastructure.
The Project
Named by the World Economic Forum as one of the worldâs 30 Technology Pioneers 2016, Synthace is re-imagining how we work with biology, exponentially improving the speed and quality of the final results. This is made possible through our high-level language and operating system for labs, Antha, which is already impacting how scientists work with biology in major companies like Dow, Merck and GSK.
Responsibilities
Youâll be working within a tight-knit development team on exciting projects with plenty of technical challenge to get your teeth into, you will:
Design, build, test, and maintain high-performance and scalable microservices in a global, federated container cluster
Integrate and deploy custom and off-the-shelf software components
Manage deadlines and priorities in a dynamic environment that blends software and wet-lab development
Master our current technology stack which includes: Kubernetes Federation, Go, Google Cloud, Docker, and Ansible
Requirements
Key requirements:
BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent work experience
Experience with Unix development environments
Working knowledge of common network protocols (HTTP, TLS, GRPC)
Well versed in any of the following programming languages: C, C++, Java, Python, or Go
Working knowledge of HA and distributed systems
In addition, you are committed to delivering high quality software to a tight schedule. Excellent communication skills are also a must in our fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment.
Software Engineer Brightcove London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ120,000 a year
August 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Us
Brightcove is the leading online video platform that powers the video for many of the UK and the worldâs largest media companies including BBC Worldwide, UKTV, Channel 4, Ford, Viacom, ESPN, and The New York Times.
As a Software Engineer, you will help deliver a service that touches millions of people around the world by serving over a billion video streams each month.
Our Team
The âDynamic Deliveryâ team work on a highly scalable, multi-region set of microservices that are responsible for delivering video to millions of consumers around the world.
Weâre a small team, so youâll have a high degree of autonomy and input into design decisions. We also offer a competitive salary, flexible working environment and encourage learning and career development.
Our Technology
The Dynamic Delivery platform has been developed from scratch over the past two years and is almost 100% written in Go, with functional tests written in Ruby/Cucumber and deployed using containers onto public cloud infrastructure.
You
Have 2+ years of experience as a software engineer
Have experience with deploying software to cloud services
Understand the reasons for and best practices around testing and are familiar with TDD and BDD
Have a good understanding of HTTP
Have experience taking ownership of a service from design to deployment
Can take into account scaling, cost and performance considerations when designing a service
Stay abreast of developments and best practices within the technologies you use
You - Bonus Points
Have written Golang in production
Have used and deployed containerised software
Have worked with CDNs
Have experience with video streaming technologies (HLS / MPEG DASH / Microsoft Smooth Streaming).
Have an understanding of H.264 and AAC
Have an understanding of video container formats, specifically MP4 (and fMP4/ISOBMFF) and MPEG TS.
Have an understanding of common DRM technologies, specifically Widevine Modular, Playready and Fairplay.
Location
Lacon House is situated in Central London, nestled between world-leading media companies and the capital's thriving tech scene.
The nearest Underground stations are Holborn and Russell Square.
Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Juni Europe (Remote), Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Lithuania, Brazil, India âŹ80,000 to âŹ135,000 a year
November 2022
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Juni who? đ
Weâre Juni. The fastest-growing fintech startup in Europe. Weâre born remote, built for remote work, and busy building the future of financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.
What we do đ€
Think of us as the financial companion made for ecommerce. Weâre building an all-in-one platform that helps ecommerce entrepreneurs understand their business better, improve decision-making, scale up, and unlock the full potential of ecommerce. We even finance their working capital to help achieve their goals and dream up new ones.
How & why we do it đ
We give our people the same thing weâre building for our customers: freedom. Freedom to work wherever thereâs good Wi-Fi. Freedom to be 100% yourself. Freedom to explore your potential and whatâs more â make the most of it. We truly believe weâre making the world a better place for ecommerce, and we want you to be a part of that mission.
Your role đ
Tackle convoluted problems and develop clean, stable solutions that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar (and up to date) with their development ecosystem for making sound decisions when it comes to choosing the right tool or library for the job. We expect our engineers to be able to contribute across the entire product stack, as well as collectively oversee the integrity of the codebase.
Your responsibilities đȘ
In this role youâll be:
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward efficient microservices distributed architecture
Within 1 month you'll:
Introduce an important architectural improvement to our Go codebase
Within 3 months you'll:
Help other web backend engineers say theyâre learning a lot and are more productive because of you
Have helped us build new features quicker than we otherwise would have - our velocity has increased significantly
Within 6 months you'll:
Help introduce significant new features which radically improve our product.
Impact the quality of the product, getting to the point where we fix all bugs and are improving performance metrics
Be proud of the product and the codebase
Your qualifications đšâđ
What we need to see:
- Experience developing, monitoring, and improving microservice architectures
- Knowledge of designing and implementing public and private APIs (gRPC/REST)
- Experience with CI/CD
- Great communication skills in English
What weâd love to see:
Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms (we are open to candidates who have strong programming knowledge in other languages but want to work in Go!)
Knowledge of security and/or devops best practices
Experience within the Payments domain
Your tool stack đ»
Mac. Chrome. Even⊠Windows. Choose the hardware that helps you work best. Weâll also support whatever software you need. From Miro to Slack and everything in between.
Tech stack
React, Javascript/Typescript
Go
gRPC (Protocol buffers)
PostgreSQL, Redis
Kafka
Docker, Kubernetes
AWS
Your people đ„
Forget office-based culture. This is people-first culture. Weâre real. We never wait. We care deeply about building a better future for our customers and each other in a way that's never been done before. Here, you can work with people at the top of their game and who didnât get there by playing games. You can help us change business for ecommerce entrepreneurs, change the world â wherever in the world you may be.
Your benefits đ
Weâre born remote-first. Transparent. Caring. Empowering. So our benefits are too.
Hello work. Meet freedom. Join us anywhere within 6 hours of Sweden time zone.
Swap 2D for 3D. Meet the team IRL at two in-person onsites per year.
Diversity is at our core. We're Part Swedish. Part Canadian. Part French. Part Malaysian. Part Italian. Part Nigerian. Part British. Part Turkish. You get the idea.
Great players can stay great players. Progress your career whether you choose to manage people or not.
Happiness stipend. The best things in life are free. But money can buy you a herd of puppies. Get âŹ8,500 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy.
Work al desko. Get âŹ500 a month towards a co-working space.
Stock options. We canât promise youâll make a fortune. But weâll give it our very best shot.
Vacation days. At least 30 per year as standard. Awesome.
Global health insurance. You know. Just in case.
Get sick? No stress. Feel better with unlimited paid sick leave.
We are here for you. Unlimited access to mental health support via Spill.
Work with the best people for the job. Not the best people within 1 hourâs commute.
Get support to switch things up. People change. Careers can too.
Free your nine to five đ€
Hit apply and help us revolutionise financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.
The process đ
CV screening > Get to know us call > Team interview(s) > Values interview > Offer (for some roles weâll include a task, but weâll notify you if this is the case)
Senior Software Engineer Paddle London, United Kingdom / Remote (Europe) ÂŁ75,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
April 2022
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
What do we do?
Paddle offers SaaS companies a completely different approach to their payments infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, weâre a Merchant of Record for our customers, taking away 100% of the pain of payments fragmentation. It's faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better.
We have over 230+ talented employees serving over 3000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. Backed by investors including FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North, Paddle aims to define the next wave of B2B SaaS leaders.
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, youâll be helping to drive our product and engineering department forward, working on different parts of the Paddle ecosystem and helping our Software Sellers sell their products on a platform they trust and rely on.
Our Engineering Department is split into 8 cross functional Product teams, along with an SRE and Data team.
Our Product teams are made up of an Engineering Manager, a Product Manager and between 4 - 8 engineers (mix of backend and frontend), depending on the demands of the team.
You are empowered to use the right tech for the job and youâll have the freedom to input into what technology and tooling are used and educate the rest of your colleagues accordingly.
Our Tech
Go for our new services
PHP and Laravel for our legacy system
Docker in production and local development
gRPC for internal services running on AWS Fargate
AWS lambda for event-based services
AWS SQS for our asynchronous message queues
MySQL and DynamoDB for persistent data storage
Redis for key/value store
Terraform and Cloudformation for infrastructure management
What you'll do
Develop high traffic APIs used by hundreds of thousands users per month
Engineer high-performance background workers for consuming queues
Practise DevOps, youâre responsible for getting your code to production and supporting it
Use the latest AWS services available to run your code
Help design a stable platform to support phenomenal growth
Mentoring and coaching other engineers
Play a part in an agile team, either kanban or scrum as needed
We'd love to hear from you if
You have a development background with Go
You have experience designing and building systems to handle high traffic at scale in a cloud-based environment in AWS
You enjoy collaborating with our technical and non-technical departments
You proactively find ways to improve the code and team processes
You have a strong understanding of the development process - from design through to deployment, maintenance, and what that means for day-to-day development
You take pride in what you build
You are interested in what new tools and techniques you could introduce to us!
Why youâll love working at Paddle
We are a diverse team of 230 (and growing!) people who care deeply about enabling a great culture which is inclusive no matter your background. We celebrate our diverse group of talented employees and we pride ourselves on our transparent, collaborative, friendly and respectful culture.
We live and breathe our values, which are:
*** Exceptional Together
* Execute with impact
* Better than Yesterday**
We offer a full suite of benefits, including attractive salaries, stock options, pension plans, private healthcare, a health & wellbeing platform and coaching sessions.
We are a âdigital-firstâ company, which means you can work remotely or from an amazing office if you prefer, or even a bit of both! We offer all team members unlimited holidays and 4 months paid family leave regardless of gender. We love our casual dress code, annual company retreats and much more. We truly invest in learning and will help you with your personal development, from constant exposure to new challenges, an annual learning stipend to regular internal and external training.
Equal opportunities
We believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don't discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. Our office is wheelchair friendly and we are a family-friendly employerâ.
Senior Software Engineer (Blockchain/Backend) Metrika Remote (United States, Canada, Europe, United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland) $60,000 to $140,000 a year
July 2021
8 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)
_
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.
Senior Software Engineer Lemonaid Health San Francisco, United States / London, United Kingdom $160,000 to $180,000 a year
July 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Lemonaid Health is a mission driven technology startup committed to providing quality and affordable healthcare to patients nationwide. We build long term relationships with patients by offering a broad range of primary care services to help them lead happier, healthier lives. Weâre backed by large strategic and healthcare investors like OTV and Health Velocity Capital.
Lemonaid Health comprises an entrepreneurial team of over 100 people who live each day by our 7 Guiding Principles including celebrating wow, setting a high bar, leading in innovation, and championing equality. Interested in transforming healthcare? Apply today and join our growing team of Lemons!
The Engineering team at Lemonaid Health is a collaborative team who enjoy working together on big goals. We have a culture that values truth seekers and speakers, where respect for one another is fundamental. Weâre looking for experienced full stack engineers to build and design world-class software with us. This is an opportunity to join a mission driven team at a company transforming the healthcare industry.
This position is located in the SF Bay Area and reports to the Chief Technology Officer.
What youâll do
First and foremost, developing software that will WOW our users and help us scale.
Collaborate with the team to brainstorm and create new exciting products for our patients.
Work with product management, design and other engineers to determine the best way to implement solutions.
Make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale.
Be a persistent, creative problem Âsolver.
Remain cool and effective in a crisis.
Deliver high quality testable and maintainable code.
Passionate about great technologies, especially open source.
Understand business needs and know how to create the tools to manage them
Help and mentor other team members.
What youâll bring
5+ years of experience as a software engineer building consumer facing applications
Experience with full-stack web development in languages like Golang or PHP and a modern Javascript framework
Either strong OOP or Functional Programming and modeling skills.
Experience working in an agile environment.
Experience building consumer-facing, complex web systems that have been successfully launched.
Experience working in an environment covered by PCI, HIPAA or other high standard of security and privacy would be a bonus
Communicate professionally, tactfully, and kindly while maintaining a high level of confidentiality at all times
Why we think youâll be excited about us:
At Lemonaid Health, we strive to be the best place to work. We have ingrained a culture of giving and receiving feedback, and providing a challenging, yet fun, work environment.
We are proud to offer competitive medical benefits in addition to 401(k) matching, generous PTO, and more!
Our Lemons live each day by our Guiding Principles:
Aim for âwowâ in everything we do.
Be driven by our mission to increase access to healthcare.
Lead in innovation - act first.
Communicate clearly using the correct communication medium.
Set a high bar for ourselves and each other - provide and take feedback.
Be proactive - never say âthatâs just how we always do itâ.
Champion equality - proactively be anti-discriminatory.
VISA Sponsorship
We are not able to support VISA sponsorship at this time
Compensation
London, United Kingdom: 65,000-75,000GBP/year
San Francisco, USA: 160,000-180,000USD/year
Location
The location is onsite on our London and San Francisco offices, flexible work is allowed (2-3 days/week)
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worldâs 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 Magazineâs 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 Cloudflareâs business grows. You will build tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime and response times. You will nurture a passion for an âautomate everythingâ 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?
Weâre not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Weâre 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 Cloudflareâs 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. Hereâs the deal - we donât 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 youâd like to be a part of? Weâd love to hear from you!
Software Engineer Emitwise London, United Kingdom ÂŁ60,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
July 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
What is Emitwise?
Emitwise is a fast-growing startup, whose vision is to accelerate the transition to global carbon neutrality. We build software that uses machine learning to help companies monitor and manage their carbon footprint. We're a seed stage company backed by top-tier Silicon Valley investors. Headquartered in London, Emitwise is at the heart of the net-zero carbon revolution.
Why does Emitwise exist?
Climate change is the defining issue of our time and we have reached a defining moment. While the threat to our planet is dire, the opportunity is also historic. But we need to move quickly. Our team is determined to create a world where every organisation, big or small, is able and willing to play their role in the fight against climate change.
Who we are
We're a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, designers, and carbon accountants that share a deep passion for sustainability and our crafts. We recognise the urgency of the climate crisis and, as such, value execution. We strive for innovation and therefore actively pursue diversity of thought. We cherish feedback and default to transparency. Ultimately, we're a team disenchanted with business as usual and looking to make real impact.
About the job
Reporting to the CTO, you will be a core member of the engineering team, helping us build the next generation of our product. You will be working on different challenges every day, ranging from back-end development to deployment of infrastructure. You will take a special delight in front end work and will help lead the team on their redesign of our carbon data visualisations.
Your work will be critical to the success of Emitwise and will include:
Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Help shape the future of a fast-growing Engineering team
Relevant candidates will likely have:
Experience of front-end software development (Angular or a similar framework).
Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Python, Java, C/C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, or Go.
The most relevant candidates will be able to demonstrate:
Experience working with a data visualisation framework (D3 or a similar library)
You will have the interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
Ability to work in a team environment, not only implementing best practices in front-end development, but also upskilling those in the team.
A fine-eye for detail, paired with the experience and skill to strive for perfection.
Financial compensation
Salary range: ÂŁ60-80,000
Equity range: 0.05-0.25%
We want to hear from you
If this sounds like a team you'd like to be a part of, a mission you'd like to join, and a role you'd thrive in, please donât hold back from applying! Whatever skills you bring to the table or background youâre coming from, we welcome you to start a conversation with us. We need your unique perspective for our continued innovation and success.
Apply to find out more about Emitwise and the role. The time to act is now!
Right to work
We are currently only accepting applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK.
Senior Back End Developer Kalido London, United Kingdom ÂŁ70,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
January 2020
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About the role
Kalido exists to help create a world where people and organizations can maximize potential through a global community of valued connections and opportunities. We passionately problem solve new ways to do this, no matter how difficult the challenge. Everyone on our team is a true product owner, responsible for ensuring excellence. We move fast (but thoughtfully), and are looking for a talented and impact-oriented Backend Developer to join us.
In this role, you will be responsible for: shaping architectural decisions and technology choices; building the infrastructure at the very heart of Kalido; and ensuring that it is secure, performant, easily deployable, scalable, cost-effective, and fit for purpose. In doing so, you will shape the company, and our collective ability to impact the world.
As part of a startup, your responsibilities will vary, but on a day to day basis, you will:
Build Kalidoâs back end
Collaborate with management, design, and platform-specific development teams to define, design, and build new functionality as required
Design, build and refactor our architecture as we evolve, with maintainability and efficient abstraction in mind
Verify, test and deploy new builds
Inspire and lead other developers, ensuring their growth
Mentor other developers to help them grow, and to ensure our design and development efforts and ethos remain aligned
Maintain Kalidoâs back end
Troubleshoot, debug and enhance the existing codebase and DevOps deployments, driving towards a continuously more performant, higher quality, and responsive experience
Monitor and analyse system performance, and own our uptime
Refine and extend our administrative and performance monitoring tools
Optimize our use of processing power, memory, storage, bandwidth, and third-party API calls in our backend infrastructure
Plan for the future
Propose, evaluate, select, and adopt new technologies when needed
Ensure that you are on top of changes to critical parts of our infrastructure (e.g. AWS, GRPC, Postgres, Redis, Envoy, RabbitMQ, etc.) so that we can adopt newer versions without affecting performance or functionality
Shape our API and third party integration strategy
Proactively suggest changes to balance cost, scale, security, performance, deployability and utility
Load test regularly, and plan for the next 1-2 orders of scale
What we are looking for
We value inclusion, impact, transparency, generosity, and teamwork. You can read more about our values and what they mean to us here: https://www.kalido.me/our-mission/. We are looking for someone who: shares our philosophy; is capable and excited about the role; strives for personal and professional excellence; and wants to make a meaningful difference through their work.
This opportunity is for you if you are:
Experienced (have 5+ years experience of designing and building commercial back end systems), with a strong analytical mind, and an ethical approach
Comfortable with the fundamentals of computer science and information architecture, including knowledge of data structures, algorithms, their complexity, their tradeoffs, and their implementation (e.g. trees, graphs, sorting algorithms, and their various Big O implications)
Someone who has led or been part of small teams of developers through the entire software development lifecycle, in maintaining and continually improving a lean software development process, and in delivering high quality code reviews, with a toolbelt of best practices for professional software development
Excited about thoughtfully building scalable platforms
Experienced with cloud infrastructure providers (Google and AWS)
Experienced with developing on and for the Linux operating system
Knowledgeable about systems architecture choices and performance trade-offs, database design and extensibility
Capable of writing complex and performant SQL queries for Oracle and Postgresql
Comfortable developing and maintaining systems written in Golang, Javascript and Python, using unit testing, and managing version-controlled development using continuous integration and devops tools (e.g. Travis). Working knowledge of a wide variety of languages and frameworks is preferred.
What we offer
Working at Kalido means working with a solid startup that has been around since 2015. We balance our drive for delivery with flexible working arrangements, generous maternity and paternity leave, weekly team lunches, and the chance to truly shape the culture you work in. You will never run out of fascinating problems to solve and will have incredible opportunities to work with a diverse team that cares about your growth.
About Kalido
By helping everyone to easily create stronger communities and more meaningful real-world connections, Kalidoâs goal is to level the playing field of opportunity. We are redefining the way people connect in their neighbourhoods, inside companies, at events, in schools, in alumni groups, in co-working spaces, and doing so throughout their lives. In August 2019 we closed a 5m USD Series A, and are backed by HCL, a global IT player with a 22 bn USD market cap, and co-founded by the #3 core team member and early investor at Alibaba. If youâre excited about empowering individuals, helping organisations to work better together, and creating a platform to power the future of work, this is the place to do it. To learn more, visit https://www.kalido.me.
How to apply
If being a Lead Software Developer at Kalido sounds like something that leverages your skills and ignites your passion, we want to get to know you. Drop us an email with your CV (including a link to your portfolio and relevant repositories) and a cover letter, addressed to Martyna at careers@kalido.me.
In order to be a great workplace and build a great product, we believe we must strive to truly represent and support this diverse world. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, parental status, marital status, disability, religion, or belief.