Job Description

If you’re looking to work in a collaborative culture, solving engineering challenges at a global scale, and having a real impact in making our products better for our customers, we would love to talk to you!

We believe in providing trust and autonomy so everyone can do their best work. From how we work to how managers support you, our goal is to provide an environment that enables you to continuously grow, ask questions and not be afraid to fail—because when we do, we see it as an opportunity to learn.

Engineering at GoCardless

The technical challenges of building GoCardless span from simplifying building banking schemes to optimising the time to render the dashboard. We’re looking for engineers to join our growing Global Network Group, where you’ll be working on problems that sit at the core of GoCardless: orchestrating and keeping track of the movement of funds, as well as building and maintaining the bank and scheme integrations that make it possible to keep our merchants’ cash flowing.

You will enjoy being a software engineer at GoCardless if:

• You’re looking to champion a great engineering culture within GC and in the wider engineering community;
• You enjoy collaborating and learning from people from various backgrounds and experiences;
• You want to feel proud of the work you’re doing and its impact on real customers.

Our engineers contribute to the engineering culture within and outside of GoCardless: they contribute to Open Source Software projects (see our Github), and share learnings in post-mortems, conferences and on our blog.

Our technologies: We endeavour to build simple, reliable systems and we believe in using the best technologies for each task. Joining the Global Network Group you’ll be working in a team that primarily uses: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage. Across GoCardless, our other technologies include: Golang, Python, React, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Google Cloud (GCP).

You’re not expected to have expertise in all these technologies. Members of our team have picked up the tools once they’ve started working with the team. If you’re unsure, please apply.

About you

• You have experience building web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack.
• You adapt to new technologies and processes quickly.
• You thrive in a collaborative environment and believe the best products are built through collaboration.
• You care about building reliable, well-tested systems.
• You enjoy solving problems and are happy to take initiative to find better solutions.

About us

GoCardless embraces diversity and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

We offer a varied package of flexible working and benefit policies. From flexible working hours and working from home arrangements, through to enhanced parental leave, pension packages and equity. GoCardless has a very family and work life balance orientated environment. Our team comes from a variety of backgrounds and we embrace diversity – if you’re unsure, please apply.

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, everyone at GoCardless has shifted to remote working since mid-March and will continue to work remotely until the end of the year. We are committed to support all employees during this time and continue to monitor the situation closely. Some of the actions we’ve taken to support the wellbeing of our employees as we transitioned to and continue working in a remote set-up are: subsidised home office equipment, remote workstation assessments, and remote wellbeing and social activities to stay in touch.

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Job Description

Software Engineers

GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.

GRAIL UK is looking for experienced software engineers, senior software engineers, and staff software engineers to join the team in London. The engineering team is responsible for supporting the collaborative efforts between GRAIL and its research partners (NHS/UCL). You will work as part of a cross-functional team to design, develop and run systems that power the safe execution of clinical workflows and the collection of relevant data. Your work will support cancer research and the development of GRAILs multi-cancer early detection blood test.

You Will:

• Use your experience developing front-end applications and backend systems to build software that supports cancer research
• Work as part of a cross-functional team to overcome real-world problems that sometimes can’t be solved with software alone.
• Build and operate the infrastructure and tooling that runs the systems and powers the team.
• Work with GRAIL engineers in the United States on core platforms.
• Take responsibility for the systems managed by the team and support the operational concerns of our research partners.

Your Background Includes:

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or similar technical field.
• You have relevant work experience designing, developing, testing and maintaining software.
• You have worked with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
• You are experienced in general-purpose programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Javascript, etc, but understand that ultimately these are tools to solve problems.
• You are passionate about software engineering, as well as software engineering teams.
• You have excellent logical reasoning and analytical skills, with a preference for simple solutions.
• You are a strong written and verbal communicator and can adapt your communication style and the level of detail to your audience.

Job Description

At Monzo we’re aiming to build the best current account in the world. We are always keen to hear from capable, creative engineers who want to help us accomplish that goal 🚀

We’re currently looking for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) to join our Platform team.

We’re looking for SREs who are software engineers at heart - you’re as comfortable writing software to solve problems as you are operating AWS or Kubernetes. If you’re a software engineer who has some good cloud infrastructure experience already, or you’re eager to get really familiar with systems, tooling and libraries, this could be the role for you.

As a team, we’re responsible for designing, building, and operating the services we consume from AWS, along with the software we run on top like Kubernetes, Cassandra, Prometheus, and Kafka. We’re also responsible for operating our three physical data centres, our network, and being on-call for the things we own and run.

To achieve this, we’re organised into three squads within the Platform Group; Infrastructure Platform, Storage Platform, and Backend Platform. Each squad is responsible for solving a specific set of problems for our customers and our engineers. We’re looking for engineers who are interested in joining our Infrastructure Platform or Storage Platform squads right now, but there are opportunities to move between them as you gain experience with our platform.

We’ve posted a good overview of our platform on our blog if you’d like to learn more.

We’re investing a lot of up-front effort in building a scalable, secure, and extensible architecture for our millions of customers. Come and help us build a state-of-the-art microservices platform and build the kind of bank you want to use.

Our engineers have a variety of different backgrounds

We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; some of us have worked in huge companies; some have only ever worked in startups; others are former consultants. As long as you enjoy learning new things, we’d love to talk to you. We do not ask for formal qualifications or degree requirements for any of our engineering roles.

We are actively creating an equitable environment for all of our engineers to thrive

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we are making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. We provide a sponsorship framework in Engineering for women and people of colour; all of our leaders are trained on privilege awareness and we are creating partnerships with organisations dedicated to supporting underrepresented groups. You can read more in our 2020 Diversity and Inclusion report.

Monzo works in project-based sprints in small, interdisciplinary teams

We have around 150 engineers out of roughly 1,400 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we’re happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you’d be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.

We encourage an open and transparent working environment

You can get involved in any aspect of the business you are interested in and, following Stripe’s example, all emails in the company are visible in an email archive. We contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made our product roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum. Our technology blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!

At Monzo you will get to work with a lot of exciting new technology.

We rely heavily on the following tools and technologies:

• Go to write our application code (we also use Go to write software to control and manage our platform)
• AWS for most of our infrastructure
• Kubernetes to schedule and run our services (Chris, our Technical Director of Platform and Reliability and Suhail, a Staff Engineer in our Platform Collective gave a great talk recently at re:Invent sharing an overview of our platform)
• Prometheus to monitor everything! (see How we Monitor Monzo)
• Envoy Proxy for our Service Mesh
• Kafka for our asynchronous message queue
• Cassandra for most persistent data storage
• We also have three physical data centre sites with a number of leased lines to connect our cloud infrastructure to various payment systems

You should apply if:

Our open roles are for mid-level to senior Site Reliability Engineers at present. Apply if:

• the work we’re doing sounds exciting!
• you’re a software engineer at heart and you’re comfortable writing software to solve problems
• you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient, scalable software
• you have strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
• you’re familiar with some of our Platform technologies, or specialise in just one part
• you want to help build, scale and operate a platform to support a product that you (and everyone you know) use every day
• you’re keen to learn more about new technologies and the arcane inner workings of the financial industry
• you’re comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity

Logistics

Salary ranges between £59,000 - £116,000 plus stock options and other benefits.

We can help you relocate to London & we can sponsor visas.

This role can be based in our London office, but we’re open to distributed working (as long as you can spend around 20% of your time in London).

We have payroll set up in four countries: the UK, Ireland, France, and Spain. Right now, we can only hire people who work from those countries and we’ll keep this updated with new ones as we expand and are able to hire from more places 🌎

We’re usually always hiring for engineers, so there’s no closing date for this job.

We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.

Diversity and inclusion is a priority for us – if we want to solve problems for people around the world, our team has to represent our customers. So we need to attract the best talent and create an environment that supports and includes them. You can read more about diversity and inclusion on our blog.

If you prefer to work part-time, we’ll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance.

Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task and call to discuss it, and 2-3 hours of onsite interviews that can be conducted via hangouts as well. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions. We might design a system together on a whiteboard, the same way we often work together, but we won’t make you write code on one.

Equal Opportunity Statement

At Monzo, embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

Job Description

Great opportunity for a talented Developer (Go, PHP, Java) to join a fast-growing start-up that combines AI and psychology to transform personalization in e-commerce. The role emphasizes efficient just-in-time processing of large data sets.

Tech Stack:

Linux, Go, Vue, MySQL, Redis, AWS, PHP

Benefits:

• Contract-to-perm, access to share option scheme if successful
• Flexible environment with the opportunity for remote working

If you are a skilled Back-End Developer (Linux, Go, MySQL, Redis, AWS) who is interested in this role then please apply below and we will be in touch with more details.

Job Description

About Cuvva

Cuvva is a new kind of insurance that’s fast, friendly, and flexible.

We get it - insurance doesn’t sound exciting. But this isn’t insurance as you know it. It’s insurance the way it should be. We’re putting the customer first and building products that solve real human needs.

We were the first company in the UK to sell hourly insurance, and the first to sell insurance through an app. We’ve sold over 1 million policies. We’ve written over 260,000 lines of code. And we’re a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.

Why work for Cuvva?

We’re shaping the future of insurance. So we don’t cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.

We’ll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.

And we’re comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. It’s the Cuvva way.

We’re building a diverse team with different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. So we give everyone a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly don’t love insurance. (Don’t worry - we didn’t either.)

And if you need any adjustments or support when you’re applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.

As well as a competitive salary (£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:

Equality

We’re committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to join Cuvva, whatever your background. We will always treat your application in a fair and equal manner.

• Professional development budget
• Brand new MacBook
• Health and wellbeing budget
• Enhanced parental leave
• Workplace pension scheme
• 33 days of holiday a year (including public holidays )
• Mates rates on your insurance
• Work-from-home Wednesdays (Currently Work-from-home everyday!)
• Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team
• Office library full of great books
• Fresh fruit and breakfast club every day
• Season ticket loans
• Cycle to work scheme
• A day off to volunteer
• One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus coach, giving you a safe space to talk about your mental health
• Coffee machine in the office
• Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge - we do team drinks every Thursday
• Regular team lunches
• Monthly team outings (so far we’ve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy night)

About the role

We’re looking for a software engineer who has held senior positions in engineering teams within high-growth, high-scale startups, who will operate with a high level of autonomy, ensuring impeccable reliability and availability. You care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering solutions which support your team and your product.

You will develop Cuvva’s core platform, abstracting the key processes required to sell insurance, delivering solutions that allow the team to develop strong and stable products, without having to spend time ensuring they get the basics right.

Aside from developing core platform services, we expect you will also become heavily involved with ops and security activities, contributing towards the maintenance of our servers, AWS account, etc.

“Core platform”

When we refer to the “core platform”, we mean the services which underpin the processes of all insurance activities on our system.

For example, we expect one of these to be the “policy service”, which might be responsible for ensuring compliant issuance of policies, coordinating mid-term adjustments, preventing overlapping policies (double insurance), etc.

Other services could include user authentication, risk & pricing calculation, handling the process of modifying user data in-line with any mid-term adjustment requirements.

All services we consider to be part of the core platform will have strict requirements around stability, data integrity and transactional safety. All functionality must fail safely and explicitly, for example using 2-phase commit processes or other similar techniques. This will also require a reasonable level of testing to validate this safety.

The perfect addition to our team will have:

• a fiercely independent and self-driven approach
• 5+ years’ commercial experience working on back-end systems at high-scale startups
• at least a year of commercial experience working with Go
• strong knowledge of security practices, ideally with a slightly grey-hat background
• a working knowledge of the entire web stack - from how DNS lookups are transmitted, to how browsers prioritize CSS rules
• awareness of compliance and financial regulation

We are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!

Job Description

Improbable has created SpatialOS: a networking solution combining low latency, tools for faster iteration, and a ready-to-go architecture capable of supporting innovative games.

Now the Improbable Defence division, building on the backbone of SpatialOS, has combined world class scientific modelling, market leading AI, mission specific user interfaces and a uniquely flexible and secure deployment model to create a powerful simulation platform tailored to the needs of the military.

Our mission? To enable the most realistic and effective military simulations ever experienced, making defence users more effective on operations and decreasing the cost of military preparedness.

Mission

The Partner Engineering team are software engineers responsible for providing deep technical expertise to our strategic partners & customers to successfully develop and build with SpatialOS and our advanced probabilistic modelling products.

Partner Engineers at improbable are Software Engineers with deep knowledge of the core concepts of our faster-than-realtime simulation products, and help our industry partners to build specific products. A Partner Engineer in the Defence Unit helps design, deploy, and support solutions that are performant, scalable, and highly available wherever the end user requires.

Areas for Impact

• Your work is amongst the most high-profile and important work that Improbable Defence does.
• You will be working directly on one of our multi-year, high-value programs of work. You will work through the entire SDLC with partners.
• In early phases, you will provide design expertise as well as deep competence in our modelling & simulation products.
• As the project progresses you will serve as the Improbable product SME, leading complex areas of feature development (integrations, deployment, performance optimizations).
• At the front-line with our partners you will be uniquely positioned to influence product direction, leveraging direct feedback and qualitative evidence.

We’d like to hear from you if you identify with much of the following:

• Experience building cloud-based software products, leveraging tools like Docker or Kubernetes for example.
• Experience building data-intensive software products leveraging tools like Kafka or Spark for example.
• Experience with a range of software engineering languages; we use Golang, C++, Kotlin & Typescript but welcome a range of backgrounds and are happy to train candidates up
• Natural communicator; able to work with a range of stakeholders inside and outside the core business.
• You have a desire to work with our partners who are central to our platform; these include large engineering and defence organisations.
• You have experience designing technical solutions alongside partners or customers; you may be a solutions architect or customer engineer for instance.
• You enjoy working cross-functionally, contributing to Product direction and influencing senior stakeholders.

Equal Opportunity

The best ideas are often the least expected and require new ways of thinking; that’s why our teams at Improbable are made up of an incredible range of talented people. Improbable is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected status.

Job Description

Credit Kudos is a venture-backed fintech startup and challenger credit bureau that uses financial behaviour to measure creditworthiness. Our technology transforms the way credit checking and credit scores work by generating a more accurate and holistic view of a borrower’s creditworthiness. We’re working with lenders to help them make better, fairer credit decisions and with consumers to help them access fair, affordable credit.

We’re building a credit bureau the right way - with the customer involved and transparent throughout. We’re looking for talented and creative engineers who share our vision.

We’re looking for ambitious engineers

Our company is growing and we’re searching for the next generation of experienced engineers to both help shape and nurture our engineering culture as we grow and deliver high-quality products for the benefit of the whole population.

We have people with backgrounds in massive companies, small companies, and a couple for whom this is their first job. We’re looking for people who want to learn and grow as much as lead and coach; if that sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you.

We work closely together as a company

We’re a small team with a big vision, so no-one specialises too much - we wear many hats week-to-week. We’re grappling with a large problem so there are plenty of challenges to be faced but we face them one sprint at a time. Your role here would see you working with the founders of the company and the rest of the team on a wide range of issues to bring our vision of a better credit bureau to reality.

You can work with a host of great technologies

To give you a flavour of our technical stack, we use:

• Golang and Ruby on Rails for our core applications and APIs
• Python for our data processing + science
• TypeScript with React and Redux for most of our front-end flows
• Brand new Open Banking APIs for collecting financial data
• Postgres for our data storage
• Docker for running everything reliably
• AWS for all our infrastructure (managed as code via Terraform)

Should you apply?

(Yes!) We’re looking for people who:

• are excited by the work we’re doing
• would like to be engaged in meaningful work
• are comfortable bottoming out problems in open discussion
• are interested in building a data-oriented company
• love writing elegant and well-tested software
• have experience building distributed systems

What we value:

• Motivation, enthusiasm and passion for our mission to take on the big credit bureaus
• Expansive thinking, transparency, honesty and a good sense of humour
• Results and efficiency rather than hours in the office

**What you’ll get: **

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Flexible working arrangements, generous leave and a dog-friendly office. See full list of benefits - plus a bit more about working for us - here
• A ton of support, but an opportunity to run your own schedule and role
• The opportunity to develop your role and responsibilities as the company grows

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: £60-80,000

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 don’t hold back from applying! Whatever skills you bring to the table or background you’re 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.

Job Description

Thought Machine is solving one of the biggest problems in banking. Since launching in 2014, our mission has been to liberate banks from outdated, legacy technology which stifles their ability to innovate. Thought Machine’s core product Vault is a cloud native, core banking engine built to run any type of bank - from established Tier 1 banks all the way to new challenger banks.

To move closer to achieving our mission, we are looking for highly talented individuals to join the fast growing team. With a founding team drawn from Google, we have a deep culture of engineering excellence and we believe it is this which delivers a solution compelling enough to engender a seismic shift in the banking industry.

Thought Machine was recognised on LinkedIn’s Top Startups List (2019) and named in Fintech 50 (2019). We pride ourselves on having an excellent internal culture, where we take cultural fit as important as technical fit when we make new hires. At Thought Machine, we strive hard to create a fast-paced, supportive and fun working environment to enable the team to produce the best technical work in the industry.

Back End Engineering is a key role within Thought Machine as Back End Engineers lead the development of Thought Machine’s Vault product. We pride ourselves in excellence in this role, adopting the best practices in continuous deployment monorepo style development.

While development at Thought Machine is fast paced, you will be expected to develop code to a high standard and production ready state.

DUTIES

• Designing, implementing and developing scalable, performant microservices using best practices.
• Writing automated unit tests, integration tests, etc.
• Interfacing with other engineering teams to ensure that features are added in a structured and coherent way.
• Managing and debugging your deployments from testing environments all the way to production.
• Translating customer requirements into trackable tickets.

Requirements

Essential:

• Experience in either Python or Golang.
• Experience in developing automated tests as an integral part of the development cycle.
• Interest in working on client-facing projects, conducting scoping and defining deliverables.

Desirable:

• Knowledge of banking / finance.
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers.
• Familiar with databases (SQL or noSQL).
• Experience with client/server software architectures & networking, or microservice architectures.
• Experience using orchestration tools such as Kubernetes or Mesos.

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Pension plan (match up to 7%)
• Life Insurance- 3 times annual salary
• Excellent Maternity and Paternity leave
• Shared parental leave
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Private health insurance with Bupa for you and your family
• Health cash plan (including dental & optical)
• Flexible working hours
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Access to exceptional learning materials and courses
• Onsite gym, membership subsidised by Thought Machine
• Sports and hobby clubs, subsidised by Thought Machine
• All the latest tech you need
• Start the day properly with fresh fruit and cereals
• Huge range of healthy (and not so healthy) snacks, smoothies, juice, tea, coffee, soft and alcoholic drinks on tap
• A talented & experienced team as your colleagues
• An environment where we encourage learning and progress
• Weekly food pop up
• Monthly social with arcade games

Thought Machine is committed to making a measurable positive impact on people’s everyday lives. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We actively hire for cultural growth. We welcome people of all ages, backgrounds and value people who take a journey unique to them. We provide everyone with equal access to professional development. You are encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn’t precisely match the job description.

Job Description

Head of Engineering

We are seeking a hands-on Head of Engineering for our well funded e-commerce fulfillment startup

At Bezos, our vision is to Deliver Happiness: For our team, for the end consumers, for our e-commerce sellers as well as our logistics partners.

Exciting times in e-commerce: E-commerce sales in Europe is projected to be £406 billion by 2023, expected to grow 8% per year between 2018-2023. The growth is driven by consumers that increasingly buy more online as well as the emergence of small and medium e-commerce sellers, which have grown at 18% and 28% per year, respectively between 2009-2017. There are 200,000 small and medium e-commerce sellers in the UK alone, selling their products through multiple channels, including marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, their own websites, and on social media like Facebook and Instagram. Today, these small and medium sellers are ignored by the large incumbent logistics service providers and we are on a mission to change that.

Building a next generation Fulfillment-as-a-Service platform: With this explosive growth in e-commerce, the demand for e-commerce fulfilment and delivery is booming. Bezos is a next generation Fulfillment-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform, that allows small and medium e-commerce sellers to outsource their storage, fulfilment, delivery, and returns and focus on what is more important: growing their businesses. Bezos’ operational model is based on partnering with certified logistics suppliers that will execute the different services on our behalf. We believe there is a massive market opportunity to serve these currently unattended and fast growing small and medium e-commerce sellers. We believe that the e-commerce logistics landscape will give place to significant disruption opportunities, and we are planning on taking a leading role to achieve them.

Two founders with proven track records: The founding team consists of Diego Lijtmaer and Vernon Tjon-Soei-Len, who are two seasoned technology executives with experience in e-commerce, the gig economy and last mile delivery industry. Diego built the business development and logistics functions at Just Eat Plc (food delivery, FTSE 100), founded and ran a hospitality business Bacanal and worked in investment banking at UBS (LinkedIn profile here). Vernon was the Director of Amazon Flex UK (part of Amazon’s Last Mile Product & Technology team) and part of the Senior Leadership Team of Amazon Logistics UK, and prior to that worked at Zipcar, Bain & Company and JPMorgan (LinkedIn profile here).

We are looking for an exceptional technology leader: Someone that gets excited about the adventure of a startup and wants to build a world class billion dollar business. Someone that enjoys transforming industries, that enjoys changing the way businesses and consumers think about delivering and receiving e-commerce orders. Someone that is hands on, solves problems, and gets their hands dirty in the execution. Someone that has a demonstrated track record of building amazing technology and building and leading high performance tech teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Build Bezos’ Fulfillment-as-a-Service platform
• Lead technology strategy, develop the technical solution, the architecture, the integration with other processes and systems and develop the Artificial Intelligence engine that manages our processes
• Own the engineering product roadmap, prioritising development efforts in line with company objectives
• Build a world class tech team: Hire, onboard and develop the best talent and cultivate an inspiring team culture with us
• Collaborate with sellers, logistics providers and internal teams to fix bugs and improve our products
• Part of the executive team, making sure the company’s technology is aligned with the business objectives

Must have requirements:

• 5 years+ experience of software and technology development, ideally 2 years+ in a startup
• Experience in developing technology for e-commerce, logistics, last mile or supply chain
• Experience in back-end integrations, APIs and microservices, cloud architecture fundamentals (AWS or Google Cloud), databases
• A charismatic technology leader: Experience in hiring, managing and leading engineering teams
• A strategic thinker and a doer: the ability to build bridges between strategy and execution and balance short term and long term objectives
• A product-focused engineer that is customer-centric
• Ability to communicate complex technology solutions to different stakeholders
• Passion for delivering results, but also learning from failure
• Analytical and data-driven: support decisions with hard facts, data and numbers
• Experience and ability to lead agile product engineering in a fast growing start up
• Knowledge of existing and emerging technologies: Evaluate multiple technologies and identify those that are the best fit for the business
• A positive outlook, boundless energy and thrive on collaboration in agile and startup environments
• Good vibes: Fostering team spirit; someone all developers look up to and aspire to work with

Preferred requirements (nice to have):

• Understanding of e-commerce platforms (Marketplaces, Shopify, WooCommerce, Amazon), logistics systems such as warehouse and inventory management systems
• Experience with managing distributed/remote software developers
• Experience with node.js or Golang (Go)
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related field

We strive to create an exciting and amazing opportunities where our team members love to work and have fun with each other. We offer a competitive compensation package which includes an attractive base salary and stock options.

This is a super exciting role and a critical hire for our team, as you will join our startup as one of the very first employees.

Contact us:

Email: joinus [at] bezos [dot] ai

Website: www.bezos.ai

Job Description

Funding Circle brings together small businesses and investors in a way that is truly revolutionary. We’re here to foster an environment where small business can thrive. Our online platform provides a marketplace where investors receive better returns and small businesses find lower rates. The driving force behind our product is our engineering team; we are building elegant, sustainable, and scalable infrastructure on a global scale, and we want you to be a part of it!

Our mission: to build a better financial world.

Prospectus:

Would you describe yourself as a creative and ambitious engineer who’s always ready to take on the next cutting-edge technology and build scalable infrastructure? If your answer is yes, you’re going to fit right in with our team.

We’re looking for a passionate and efficiency-driven Senior Platform Engineer who can build automated, testable, and repeatable projects. We are a group of passionate engineers whose bread and butter is learning new technologies and fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment - we’re looking for partners in crime who feel the same.

• Be an automator: we’re using cutting-edge technology to facilitate automation and repeatability. We practice continuous integration and are working towards continuous deployment.
• Be a builder: our engineers are building and expanding our highly-available architecture to handle over $2 billion in loans originated through our pipeline.
• Be a game changer: we’re building infrastructure that has a competitive edge; we’re using technologies like Docker in production on top of Mesos, Kubernetes, and Apache Kafka.
• Be a collaborator: you’ll be expected to forge deep bonds with your business counterparts to truly understand the needs of our Borrowers and Investors. We work in an Agile environment including pair programming and daily standups.
• Be a teacher: be generous with your time and expertise to continue the development of our world-class engineering team.

Our ideal candidate has:

• Expert knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure (AWS)
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Expert knowledge of auto scaling, load balancers, proxy servers, DNS, CDNs and WAFs
• Capable of architecting security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure
• At ease troubleshooting in complex environments using monitoring and logging tools (such as New Relic, Datadog, Graylog and Kibana)
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform & Go.
• Experience with build tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI), and artifact repositories (e.g. Quay.io),
• Experience working with RDBMS (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Knowledge of using distributed stream processing platforms specifically Apache Kafka
• Experience in requirements identification, solution analysis, and product selection
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Brownie points for:

• Contributions to open source projects
• Advanced networking experience
• Security experience
• Experience with microservices and event-driven architecture
• Experience with data warehouses
• Past experience working in a highly-regulated industry
• Experience working in global companies with multiple geographies

Why Join Us?

Happy employees are productive employees, that’s why we offer a hearty benefits package including:

• Our employees make our mission a reality, and we want you to share in the companies success by offering generous shares.
• Cool kit - Mac or PC
• Private healthcare, pension and healthcare cash back schemes
• Discounted onsite gym membership
• Learning and development through FC Academy
• Personal development funding
• Flexible working
• Free breakfast, barista coffee and discounted hot lunch at our Funderbar!
• We are a regular host of Meet-Ups and events.
• Company wide socials

At Funding Circle, we celebrate and support the differences that make you, you. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We truly believe that diversity makes us better.

Job Description

About Appvia

Appvia is a new and exciting IT start-up looking for engineers who love turning difficult technical and business problems into simple solutions.

The Role

You will get an opportunity to help shape how businesses deliver applications and improve the developer experience with well thought through products and engineering.

You will research, conceive and develop software applications to extend and improve Appvia’s product offerings, working with a talented cross-functional agile team.

You will be passionate about your industry and get an opportunity to make a real difference to the business you are part of.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software

• Collaborate with peers on a regular basis to build out assumptions and prove with prototypes

• Build features whilst maintaining backwards compatibility

• Express improvements and ideas to further develop products

• Communicate effectively with all stakeholders to drive out user requirements

• Lead on an idea, design and deliver working prototypes

We’re looking for someone with

• A strong understanding of the full software development lifecycle

• Passionate about driving the best product outcomes for all users

• Ability to challenge and understand real user requirements and map them to tangible technical objectives

• Pragmatic and methodical approach in solving difficult technical problems

• Understanding of scalable and distributed microservice concerns

• Ability to architect and maintain backward compatible APIs

• A passion for new technology and automation

• Practical understanding of distributed systems

• Good understanding of industry best practices

• At least 5 years designing and developing backend systems ideally in Golang

• Experience of working on and contributing to Open Source Software projects

• Previous exposure to modern front-end frameworks

• Experienced in BDD and test automation

• Experience developing on and with the Kubernetes API

• Previous Ruby/Python experience would be beneficial

• Exposure to Cloud and Developer PaaS products

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

What you’ll get in return

• Competitive salary

• 25 Days Holiday (plus bank holidays)

• Flexible working hours

• Pension

• Health Insurance

• Training and personal development

• Bonus

Note: As some of our customers require Security Clearance, you will need to be eligible, this means you will need:

• Have no criminal records

• Have no financial irregularities

Job Description

About Vaion

Vaion was founded in February 2018 by a very experienced team to revolutionize a multi-billion dollar security market with cutting-edge hardware and software, applying the latest advancements within machine learning, computer vision, and design. Right now, we are in the process of strengthening the initial engineering and commercial team for our product, so this is an incredible opportunity to enter an exciting and innovative company right from the beginning. Join us if you want to challenge and disrupt an existing technology market and have fun on the way.

We are looking for software engineers from graduate to experienced engineers in engineering or science with the highest academic achievement and experience in modern software development from the chip to the cloud.

Graduate Candidate Profile

Are you the sort of student that has been coding since you were really young? Have you developed a reputation for being a bit of a “techie”? Perhaps you build and configure computers in your spare time or your friends come to you with their PC problems for you to fix? Maybe you contribute to open source software as a hobby? If you do have experience developing software either for a University project or as a hobby and can show us on GitHub for elsewhere please let us know when you apply so we can discuss it at the interview!

You will also have a good degree (First or 2.1) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related subject.

Vaion Graduate Programme

Every new graduate hire is assigned a mentor who will be a senior member of the development team and your mentor is responsible for overseeing your development through the first few years of your career ensuring that you are given the necessary support and guidance as you develop your career as a software developer. Your mentor will also be responsible for ensuring that you will gain experience in a number of different areas of development so you will be able to discover what particular area you might wish to specialise in longer term. From day one graduate hires will be given the opportunity to become responsible for designing and developing a key part of the product. You will quickly gain experience across the full software development lifecycle from design through coding, testing and support across a wide range of technologies and languages

Desirable experience and skills

Your experience with any particular languages isn’t critical but prior experience in any of the following would be an advantage:

• Knowledge of a general purpose programming language, including any of: Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML or CSS.
• Designing, developing and consuming REST APIs.
• Knowledge of network security (e.g. SSL/TLS) and other crypto concepts.
• Appreciation of test-driven development, continuous integration/deployment, Kanban.
• Experience using Version Control Software such as Git as part of working in a team.
• Experience developing for Machine Learning / Computer Vision

The Offer

• Cutting-edge technical challenge
• Immediate input into product development
• Competitive salary
• Equity
• Visa Sponsorship available
• Vaion graduate development program

How to apply:

If it sounds like you would be a good fit for us, please email a CV and portfolio to Marcus at [email protected].
Our interview process is very informal - don’t bother wearing a business suit! Just come prepared to talk about your experience, interest in technology, and meet our team.

Job Description

We are: News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.

Your team; Monetise. Responsible for the Monetise domain within the wider MAIN (Monetisation, Access, and Identity for News) platform. Our monetisation services underpin our award winning portfolio of produces across our brands. Our passion lies in building robust, flexible, scalable, secure, and clean platforms using the latest industry standard technologies.

Your role: Principal Software Engineer. We are looking for a talented and passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our team based in London.

Day to day you will: As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software. You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. You’ll report in to the Head of Engineering and will help them deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation. You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard.

What we’re looking for from you: You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, encouraging those around you to do the same.

You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard. You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD/BDD. You are an expert in Java and perhaps some other languages too.

As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be involved with the technical direction as well as day to day coding standards and best practices. You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business. You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK.

You’ll find these skills useful in this role:

• Object Oriented analysis and design

• Continuous delivery and associated tooling

• Developing Cloud based applications

What’s in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team environment. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.

Equal opportunities:

The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.

We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.

This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.

Corporate benefits

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

• A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions;

• Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up 2 weeks full basic salary;

• Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family;

• A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees;

• Interest free commuter loan of up to £10,000 tax free

• ‘Bikes For Work’ scheme to save income tax and national insurance;

• Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice;

• Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.

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 Kalido’s 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 Kalido’s 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, Kalido’s 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 you’re 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 [email protected]

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.

Job Description

Rebank is building the financial operating system for high-growth companies. The way companies grow has evolved over the last decade; how they manage their finances hasn’t.

Our customers used to rely on error-prone spreadsheets and outdated internal processes but with Rebank they can manage their bank accounts, easily send funds across the world, and access analytics and insights all from a single login.

This is the first step towards a new kind of banking and we have the backing of great investors including Y Combinator to help us achieve that.

Here’s how we work

We believe that deep technical expertise and an understanding of the problems we solve for our customers are equally important. We choose the right technology for the job because we understand how it works and how it benefits our customers. You’ll be joining as an early employee so you will have significant autonomy over your role and influence in how we grow the company.

Currently, our tech stack utilises the following

• Go (Golang)
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• AWS
• Docker

You will spend time on

• Designing and implementing our core global banking and payments systems
  
• Building robust identity and access management systems
  
• Integrating with banks and financial service providers
  
• Ensuring our devops and security architecture is at the high standard our customers expect of a bank
  
• Collaborating with design and product management
  

You should have

• 3+ years experience with Go or other strongly-typed languages
  
• A desire for solving complex engineering problems at scale
  
• A high-degree of independence and drive
  
• A strong knowledge of security practices
  
• Comfortable working with constant change and product evolution
  
• Constructively collaborate with teams across engineering, design and product
  
• Working knowledge of the entire web stack - from DNS to CSS
  
• The desire for a competitive salary and equity - everyone in the company shares in our success
  

It’s a bonus if you have experience in

• Payments and/or banking
  
• Devops (docker/kubernetes/terraform)
  

Culture at Rebank

👩🏽‍🔬 Learn from users, build what they want

Be inquisitive about the problems we’re solving for customers and how it impacts their day. A deeper understanding of our users helps us focus on building the best experiences.

🎯 Be product focused

Align user outcomes with business outcomes. Err on the side of risky ideas with high potential. Take pride in creating beautiful product workflows.

ᾞE Plan collaboratively, execute independently

Collaborate on ideas. Take action early and learn as you go. Work with a high degree of autonomy.

We’re an equal opportunity employer (and very pet friendly).

Job Description

We are looking for software engineers to continue developing and scaling our products and infrastructure.

The Project

Named by the World Economic Forum as one of the world’s 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 revolutionary cloud based platform for designing biological experiments, simulating them, translating instructions for automated lab equipment, and visualising complex data sets from the results. All of this is done by Antha, which is already impacting how scientists work with biology in major companies like Dow, Merck and GSK.

Antha lowers the level of entry for scientists wanting to introduce automation to their work, while allowing specialist technicians to get even more out of the existing equipment in the labs. It is directly contributing to faster, more efficient research into hard to cure genetic diseases such as Cancer.

If knowing your work is having a positive impact on the world, it doesn’t get much better than this.

You’ll be working within a tight-knit, friendly and collaborative development team on exciting projects with plenty of technical challenges to get your teeth into.

You won’t find any micro-management here - we’re all about freedom, trust, enablement and personal ownership. We give you the space to solve complex problems, while offering support if/when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, test, and maintain APIs and services
• 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 in different areas: Kubernetes, Go, Google Cloud, Azure, Docker, GraphQL

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)
• Seriously well versed in any of the following programming languages: Go (ideally), Python, Java, C, and/or C++
• Working knowledge of HA and distributed systems
• Ability to deliver high quality software to a tight schedule
• Excellent communication skills are also a must in our fast-paced, multidisciplinary environment

Why join Synthace:

• Work with genuinely extraordinary people
• Open, collaborative, and friendly culture
• Challenging, groundbreaking and exciting work
• Chance to be a part of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’, helping us to create tools and systems that allow scientists to do things like cure Cancer faster!

Salary: £80k-120k depending on experience + equity options

Location: West London.

Job Description

Software Engineer- Golang

The big question: why on earth should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because we’re on a journey. Changing the way we operate. Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.

There are thousands of experts to talk to and learn from. We’ve got data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. Things get built here. They get made here. They hit customers and colleagues quickly. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury’s Tech.

More about the role:

• Write well-structured, beautiful, well-tested code
• Carry out Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration effectively
• Assist in architecting systems and applications
• Design smart ways of storing and displaying complex data
• Be an active contributing part of an agile development team

What we’re looking for:

• Good knowledge of Golang development and open to learning the other languages (Don’t worry we will help you learn)
• Experience of building and/or working with RESTful services
• Understanding of relational and non-relational databases and when to use them
• Interest in native app development, such as Android (Kotlin/Java) or iOS (Swift)
• Extensive experience of tools such as JIRA, Confluence and Git
• (Bonus) Production experience of payments systems and/or PCI compliance

In return you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across the multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat
• Holiday allowance
• Bonus scheme
• Pension plan
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture.

Job Description

Senior Backend Developer - London

About Coda

Coda is a technology company with a mission to build the best mobile games for each individual user with help of latest design trends and technology available for personalized experiences. Experimentation, creativity, and data are at the core of what we do.

We are a well-funded seed stage company founded by mobile industry veterans who have worked together for the past 6 years and exited their previous company. The company is based in London, and we have team members in Berlin and Istanbul.

About our team

We are a group of entrepreneurs who came together to build great games. After having exited the previous company that we built together and sold, our key goal is to make an impact in an area we are all passionate about and have fun.

We started and built the biggest mobile ad network in the Middle East and Southern Europe region and sold it to AdColony, one of the biggest, the inventors of rewarded video ads in mobile games. Our expertise is in the commercialization of games at scale, enabled by complex technology platforms.

Our goal is to bring together the best talent that is fit to go after our mission, regardless of background and location. We believe in opportunity equality and in the ability of diverse thinking teams to make a world-changing impact. We are looking to join up with other risk takers to form the foundation of our team.

Job Description

We are looking for experienced backend engineers to build the Coda platform from scratch. You will be one of the pioneer engineers who contribute to all parts and elements of the data platform we are building, from infrastructure to architecture to development.

You will work in a team consisting of experienced backend, data and machine learning engineers, directly reporting to CTO, for designing and building an integrated platform with numerous components and services, the primary intention being recording, querying and processing data. Agility, speed, robustness, security and availability are the core properties of the system we are aiming for. Although there are particular technologies we would like you to be experienced with, the main acceptance criteria for this role are system thinking ability, perfect problem solving skills and desire for constant positive contribution to Coda’s success.

Responsibilities

• Be the part of the team to architect and build the platform from ground up
• Implement microservices architecture for all inbound/outbound backend services
• Develop services for client and server to record, query and process various types of data streams
• Develop real-time 3rd party connected services to import/export data
• Develop high throughput configuration services for client feedback
• Work on and improve the deployment/orchestration/maintenance process
• Support Data Engineers and Machine Learning Engineers in building Data Science workbench and creating testing/staging and production environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience in backend development
• 3+ years of experience with Go
• Designed and built services/applications that deal with big data (high in volume and throughput)
• Experience in different types of data storage schemes (logs, objects, relational, time series, graph etc.)
• Having successfully implemented solutions to deal with at least over 100K TPS
• Knowledge in microservices architecture, containers, and orchestration
• Proficient in SQL
• Former experience with at least one relational database solution (PostgreSQL, MySQL)
• Former experience with in-memory data stores (Redis, Memchached, etc)
• Thorough knowledge on cloud infrastructure, experience with AWS and its variety of services from IAM to EC2, from S3 to Kinesis.
• Keen on CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• As a plus worked with distributed data warehouses (Snowflake) and distributed computing frameworks (Apache Spark)

Why join Coda?

*You’ll get to benefit from being part of a transparent and early stage team where you can get exposure to various aspects of a company whilst deploying your own expertise with a clear product vision and the funding to survive the chasm * You will work on some of the hardest technical and operational challenges in the industry - explore and break your own limits and help us break our own * Yes it’s mission impossible and yes we know our ambitions are slightly over the top but we bring experience and resources of a proven team that has achieved a wild dream before and is hungry for more * You will work with a diverse team that has learning, having fun and achieving long term goals as top priorities

We Offer

• We welcome parents and parents-to-be - 24 weeks maternity and 8 weeks paternity leave with full pay
• 25 days of annual paid leave
• Competitive salary and equity
• We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

Job Description

Working pattern - Flexible working, Full-time, (Job share / Part-time options) Salary - £29,017 - £41,149
Package / Benefits - please follow apply link for further details APPLICATION DEADLINE - 5th November 2019

As a Back-end Software Engineer, you will be a key part of the API and Data team within the Digital Publishing division of the Office for National Statistics.  The successful Developer  will share responsibility for the ONS Website, Developer sites, Dashboards and CMS. You’ll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team of front-end engineers, back-end engineers, site reliability engineers, interaction designers, user researchers, service manager, product owner and performance analyst.

Tech Stack

Our current back-end technology stack includes Go, Java, Python, Apache Kafka, MongoDB and Neo4j.   You will be part of a team with a range of skills and programming languages, so we dont expect you to know all of these.

More details available - for full information on the role, and to progress, please click APPLY to be taken to the CivilServiceJobs website.  

For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the advertising recruiter, Darren Weeks on 01633 651628 or [email protected]