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 want our bank to be safe and secure for our customers, so security is very important to us

Security at Monzo

Monzo’s security team has a wide range of responsibilities, from infrastructure security to application security. As a bank, we are solving diverse, novel problems to ensure that our customers are safe and secure.

One of the guiding principles of security at Monzo is that security at the expense of user experience is a last resort. We aim to move mountains in the background such that we can build world-class features without compromising on security.

As a member of our security team you would be responsible for constantly improving the security of Monzo, and you would work closely with other teams to ensure that our systems are secure by design. Of course, security incidents can and do occur, and the security team is involved with many different types of incident response.

Our engineers have a variety of different backgrounds

We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; 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 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 regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and 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 blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!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 regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and 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 blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!

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

We have around 190 engineers out of roughly 1000 people in total - and we have big ambitions. As a security engineer here you’d be able to work directly with lots of teams across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.

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 (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here) Cassandra for most persistent data storage Kafka for our asynchronous message queue Linkerd/Finagle for RPC Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (Oliver, our Head of Engineering, gave a great talk at KubeCon on how we use these technologies) AWS for most of our infrastructure React for internal web dashboards We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties You should apply if:

the work we’re doing sounds exciting! you want to be involved in building a product that you (and everyone you know) use every day you’re constantly looking for flaws in systems and can reason about how best to address them 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 you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go, Java, C, Scala etc.). Logistics

We can help you relocate to London, we can sponsor visas, and 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 five countries: the UK, Ireland, France, Poland 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 offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, which could be anywhere between £40,000 - £100,000 per year.

We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we’ll try our best to make this happen. Just let us know in your application so we can plan for it.

We’re usually always hiring for Backend Engineers in Security, so there’s no closing date for this job.

Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task and call to discuss it, and 2-3 hours of onsite interviews. 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

Questions about this role? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs (www.monzo.com/careers)

Perks & Benefits

• Stock Options
• Salaries Reviewed every six months
• Working from Home
• Holiday
• Unpaid holiday
• Health insurance
• Pensions
• Maternity, Paternity and adoption leave
• Catered lunch
• Headspace subscription
• Socials
• Yoga and Pilates
• Equipment
• Cycle-to-work
• Learning and training
• Knowledge sharing
• Library
• Life Insurance

Interview Process

Our interview process is normally a phone interview, a coding task and call to discuss it, and 2-3 hours of onsite interviews. 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

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About us

Tumelo is a purpose-led financial technology company, providing transparency and influence for investors who want to have impact with their money.

• We believe in a financial system that serves both people and planet.
• Over the last year, we’vebeen building aplatform that creates value-aligned investments for people like us (environmentalists, feminists, tech enthusiasts…) and giving those people their right to a shareholder voice.
• We are an FCA authorised financial institution and are at our most exciting stage of development as our app goes live in the market.

About the role

• You will work on our backend with a slew of phenomenal new technologies including Golang, gRPC-based microservices, Kubernetes, Terraform, Amazon Cognito, the Google Cloud Platform and GitLab CI. Our mobile app is built in React Native.
• You will be a foundational team member, contributing your experiences and ideas to enhance the growth and development of our team and general product direction, especially at this critical stage in our development.
• You will contribute significantly to the architecture definition, design, development, testing and maintenance of Tumelo’s backend services and back office web portal.
• You will ensure software is appropriately tested at all stages of the development and deployment cycles, including identifying opportunities for making our test and CI processes evermore effective and efficient, and you will help with the implementation of improvements to those systems.
• You will work in an agile team, actively participating in scrum-based ceremonies to translate business and user requirements into stories; writing and refining.

About you

• You are an exceptional individual who encapsulates our company values: open hearts, ambition, bring the magic, long-term thinking & thoughtful listening.
• You are passionate about software development and enthusiastic about projects you work on, especially about learning new stuff and pushing your own boundaries.
• You love working collaboratively in a small team and are a brilliant, proactive communicator.
• You have at least 5 years of experience in design and development of large-scale software solutions, especially microservices.
• You have a good working knowledge of Golang, ideally having used it successfully in a commercial environment, though we are also open to strong developers from other backgrounds who are eager for an opportunity to extend their Golang skills.

Find out more from the full job spec; https://www.tumelo.com/jobs/go-dev.pdf

Perks & Benefits

🏝 25 days holiday

💰 Share options

⛵️ Celebrate your way. We let employees choose how they want to celebrate success. We’re going to the beach this month!

Interview Process

• Send an email to us at hello@tumelo.com
• We’ll read and reply to every application we receive
• A chat over coffee/the phone
• 1.5 hour in-person interview where we’ll cover culture and technical stuff plus introduce you to the rest of the team.

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At Bedful (part of Tripadee group) we want to help people plan and book a great camping and glamping holiday. We run a set of successful websites which offer unbiased reviews and the chance to book some of the most interesting places to stay in the UK. We’re building a better booking system just for camping & glamping with a stable of successful websites with millions of visitors every year including cool camping, one of the most popular camping websites in the UK.

Where you’ll be working

You’ll be working at the heart of dynamic Shoreditch area of London, where many of the city’s most interesting startups are based. Our office is on Rivington Street not far from the Old St station. The role is a permanent position based in the office, though there may be some opportunity for remote working for the right candidates.

What you’ll be working on

We are constantly improving our central booking system - Bedful, along with our booking sites cool camping, glampingly, cool places and others so you’ll be working on exciting new features which our site owners and customers request.

Our tools

We run a set of around 20 services and 5 public facing websites, and deploy changes to production almost every day. Our code is stored in git of course, we use a bit of testing, but not too much, and our tech stack is the following:

• Most of our code is written in Go from Google - we’ve been using Go for a few years now and love working with it
• We use postgresql and influxdb for storing data, and grafana for monitoring
• We use a little javascript for interactive pages
• We host our websites on Digital Ocean, and our developers own the whole stack from local development through to deployment, deploying multiple times a week
• We host our services on CoreOS

What you’ll learn

You’ll be learning on the job, and will be able to learn about:

• Writing robust Go services
• Federated services talking to an API
• Linux administration on the command line
• Automated and repeatable deployment to clusters of servers using CoreOS
• Engineering a large code base for stability and speed of development
• You’ll learn how to write performant SQL queries
• Unit and integration testing
• Profiling and improving the performance of Go code

Must haves

• Above all, a desire to learn
• At least 1 year’s experience of software engineering or training with a recognised course
• A basic knowledge of SQL
• A basic knowledge of the web - HTML, CSS
• Some knowledge of basic programming principles - encapsulation, data structures

Nice to have

• A project of your own you’d like to talk about (can be small, doesn’t have to be software)
• Experience with Go
• Experience with Ruby on Rails or other web frameworks
• Experience with SQL - specifically Postgresql
• Some experience of the Linux command line

Perks & Benefits

You’ll be working at the heart of dynamic Shoreditch area of London, where many of the city’s most interesting startups are based. Our office is on Rivington Street not far from the Old St station. The role is a permanent position based in the office, though there may be some opportunity for remote working for the right candidates.

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OUR MISSION🚀

Bud’s mission is to make the money part of people’s lives simpler. The products we’re building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people, making finances easier to manage for everyone.

YOUR MISSION👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

We’re rapidly expanding our usage of Go across engineering; using it to build internal and external HTTP APIs, monitoring daemons, data parsers and so much more. If building a secure database storage engine or high performance APIs in Go sound like the kind of challenges you’d enjoy then we’d love for you to get in touch.

WHAT IMPACT WILL YOU MAKE

You’ll be using a range of languages in our various backend and data engineering projects including Go, PHP, Java and Python Using a range of different data stores across our teams including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, HDFS You’ll be working with RabbitMQ and Kafka for queues If you’re interested in picking up one of our languages or new technology or skill we provide lots of opportunities to learn with a mentoring programme, R&D days and regular training available. We like to help people grow and learn!

A BIT ABOUT YOU

• Proven experience with Go; and great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++, Ruby, PHP or Python)
• You are a well-rounded, inquisitive engineer who enjoys solving complex problems using clean, efficient and creative methods and putting those solutions into action working in a team
• Comfortable working with SQL and databases
• Experience with automated testing of systems and applications

TAKING IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

• Experience interacting with or building APIs
• You think always think about solutions from a security perspective or enjoy working with cryptography libraries
• Previous experience in banking or fintech companies
• A good understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures, such as API / SDK development and integrations
• Awesome analytical and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes
• Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS

ENGINEERING AT BUD

The software engineering team are tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner to integrating hundreds of third-party businesses. Data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research and most importantly secure it.

Perks & Benefits

🏖 25 days holiday!

👵 We match up to 5% of your salary in our pension plan.

🎒 You’ll be provided with a brand new MacBook or PC, and any computer accessories you need so you’ll have the best tools for the job!

🌱 The biggest motivation for people is learning and developing, our people have up to £500 per annum of learning and development opportunities funded by Bud.

🤹‍♂️ We’re big on keeping Bud a social team, so Christmas and Summer parties can be a big deal. We also put on events and have a social committee organising things from 5-a-side football, gaming comps and after-work meet-ups!

🤝 Being part of the WeWork community also provides some added perks from free “artisan” coffee, weekly lunch and learns and even terrarium workshops.

Interview Process

• Intro call with recruiter (Ryan) - 20-30 minutes
• Pairing exercise with 2 of our engineers (Via Google hangouts) - 45 minutes
• Onsite Interview (Part 1 Tech, Part 2 Values) - 1 hour 45 minutes

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Curious about distributed computing? Deploying on top of Kubernetes? Writing in GO? So are we!

Ori provides developers, networks and infrastructure owners with a software-defined edge platform to deploy, onboard & manage edge computing nodes over multiple environments and geographies.

We work with networks, big and small, to build the future of communication. Based in central London, we are searching for a hands on Cloud Architect with experience with cloud-native technologies to join a growing team of driven entrepreneurs. We are looking for candidates interested in driving technology choices, designing core architectures and bringing their experience to support the team and the development of our edge computing platform.

Promises

• Support your personal development, prioritising growth in knowledge around technology
  
• Build an environment that encourages individual autonomy within a close-knit team
  
• Provide constant technical challenges or puzzles requiring creative thinking & problem solving
  
• Encourage the proactive use of new technologies and processes
  

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for cloud and networking technologies and the implementation of a distributed compute solution
  
• Research and suggest updates to process and technology regularly to stay relevant
  
• Mentor the team, building an environment that supports communication and collaboration aligned with our company values
  
• Perform technical reviews and provide solution designs to the Engineering team
  
• Work directly with partners to translate network integration requirements into product features
  
• Design solutions with network virtualisation tools and cloud-native principles
  
• Ensure software is designed and implemented for quality, robustness and scale
  
• Take ownership and responsibility of production-ready code
  
• Contribute to and ensure the completion of code development so that product releases reach general availability on time

Expectations

• Experience and understanding of production-ready services in a Cloud-like environment
  
• Understanding of architectural designs and impacts resulting in real-world implementation
  
• Hands-on experience working building large scale web or cloud architectures
  
• Continued development experience; writing code, tests, and debugging issues
  
• Strong grasp of core architectural, programming principles and networking
  
• Experience with Go or similar languages (Java, C/C++, Rust)
  
• Demonstrable architectural concepts (SOA, Containerization) with coding and handling services through Docker
  
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar systems (Swarm, Nomad)
  
• Track record in multiple configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
  
• Exposure to open source networking projects in the realm of cloud, PaaS/IaaS, containerization and distributed computing
  
• Awareness of Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
  
• Experience of modern deployment & associated tooling, integration, technology, patterns and release methodologies including automated configuration to design, build & provision at scale
  
• Evidence of design and delivery of different scales of digital technical architectures resulting in real-world implementation
  
• Passion for good documentation of processes and architectures, alongside open communication
  

Interested? Ping over your CV, Github profile or any other relevant work you want to share.

We believe diversity and inclusion make us a better company, and we embrace equal employment opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, opinions and skills.

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Popsa is a design-led, engineering focussed company that uses machine learning to help people rediscover their best experiences and turn them into beautiful printed products.

We grew about 500% in 2018 and we’re now shipping over half a million photos a week to 50 countries around the world.

This position is a great opportunity for experienced software engineers with a background in the likes of Go, Python, PHP or Node.js looking to apply their existing skillset and learn and use Go in a production environment.

Our Platform Technology Stack

• Most of our backend code is written in Go with some Python and Node.js used where they’re the right tool for the job.
• We’re entirely hosted on AWS and make extensive use of many of their services (over 30 at last count!)
• 15+ containerised microservices running in ECS (we’re open to exploring moving to Kubernetes in the future if appropriate). Our services talk protocol buffers over HTTP and are discovered with Consul.
• Dozens of event driven serverless functions running on Lambda, some running as APIs behind API Gateway and others as Step Functions
• Dockerised batch compute workflows
• NoSQL databases (predominantly DynamoDB and ElasticSearch)
• Serverless analytics data lake backed by S3 using Athena (PrestoDB)
• Terraform and Serverless Framework to manage our infrastructure as code

Read more about our platform technology stack here.

Some other blog posts you might find interesting too:

• How we optimised our API to reduce network overhead by up to 70%
• Why security and privacy at Popsa is a first class citizen, not an obligation

You and the Role

This is a central role and the work you’ll be doing will touch every aspect of the business. The Popsa platform doesn’t just power our mobile apps, but numerous internal business applications and custom integrations with our industrial print partners (some of this runs on a fleet of Raspberry PIs!), as well as a burgeoning data platform which will feed further into our growth strategies.

Our Head of Engineering Alex likes to describe our platform as an iceberg - the bit customers encounter is just the tip above the water - underneath is a dynamic event-driven structure that enables us to be a lean business that can iterate and experiment rapidly.

You will gain a unique perspective of a high growth business and have an opportunity to shape the landscape of our backend APIs, data pipelines and strategies, infrastructure automation and many more engineering goals.

You Should Apply If

• You’re impact driven and eager to have a real positive impact on the company, product, users and very importantly your colleagues as well
• You have a self-starter mindset; you proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so
• You’re keen to learn more about and play around with new technologies
• What we’re doing here at Popsa excites you!

Desired skill set:

• Strong competency with a language such as Go or Python; the majority of the Platform backend is written in Go, but we’re flexible and you’ll have the opportunity to learn on the job as well as making use of your existing skillset.
• You structure code for scalability, performance and testing
• Experience writing and consuming RESTful and RPC APIs; you’ll be designing and building new APIs for our mobile and web clients and integrating with new partners and suppliers
• You know and appreciate automated testing
• Experience with Linux-based operating systems
• Experience with container technologies
• Production database experience, bonus points for experience with both SQL and NoSQL databases

Bonus:

• Experience of continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS and Lambda, as well as tools such as Terraform and Serverless
• Experience designing, building and managing distributed event-driven * services
• Knowledge or experience of data engineering; tooling, processes, architectures, libraries

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“DevOps is not a goal, but a never-ending process of continual improvements” so say’s industry leaders, do you agree?

Come and join our emagine family as an emagineer, where you’ll work closely with the software development team as a Senior DevOps Engineer.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll work within the software development team, supporting them on the early stages of a Greenfield project that involves advanced monitoring, machine learning and predictive analysis software for the financial services sector. Our UK office is relatively new, and so the ability to develop and be creative with new products is what makes this role unique. Your role will involve development, system administration, quality assurance and support. You will join the project from the outset and have an opportunity to significantly influence the project architecture. This is a genuine opportunity to be a part of a team that is dedicated to achieving success, through working on a project that is innovative, inspiring and rare to the market.

We are happy to consider candidates who may have previously worked within DevOps, Systems Administration, software development or automation testing environments with some exposure to relevant technologies. You’ll ideally be educated to Degree level or demonstrable commercial experience in an IT Operations.

In your role as Senior DevOps Engineer you will:

Build our next generation containerised architecture Assist the software development team with ad-hoc optimisation and refactoring Methodically follow an agile process with Scrum Carry out Elastic Stack administration and optimization along with Software packaging, quality assurance, testing and Linux system administration, automation and scripting.SecOps

To be successfully considered for this unique and exciting opportunity you will:

Have strong knowledge of UNIX and Open Source along with Programming in C++ or Golang

Have an In-depth understanding of infrastructure code tooling, preferably Puppet or Terraform Possess excellent Linux system administration experience Have a natural passion for building state of the art infrastructure Be positive, constructive along with methodical approach with an emphasis on collaboration and execution Have experience with solutions such as: elastic stack, Redhat, Centos or Fedora, Kubernetes, GlusterFS Scripting skills in Bash, Perl and/or Python NoSQL databases. Source control with Git RPM creation Jenkins expertise, and experience with Job DSL & Jenkinsfiles. Docker and containerisation

What you’ll get in return:

A commitment to an accelerated: career pathway, development, and learning To work in an established brand with a startup mentality Excellent salary, exceptional benefits package Recognition programmes Growth within a diverse and global environment

About us:

emagine Consulting is an independent professional services consultancy with 30 years of experience specialising in the banking and financial services industry. We partner with our clients to meet their business initiatives both in the immediate and long-term. We achieve this by leveraging our expert and proprietary industry knowledge, coupled up with an extensive understanding of their business needs to drive the right solution for our clients. With our practice-based organisational structure, combined with our agile delivery model, we are able to successfully deliver highly complex, cross-region programmes/projects for our clients.

Our core values:

At emagine Consulting, we consistently strive to deliver high standards and best practice to our clients, colleagues, and consultants. Whilst we have had many successes, we aim not to dwell on them; instead, our agenda and approach are to always seek to improve on our past successes and to better ourselves. Our five core values, internally known as “the 5C’s” assist us in making sure that we remain consistent across all functions, departments, and sectors.

Our 5 core values are as follows:

· Caring - we are attentive, we listen and learn from each other

· Committed - we are committed to delivering results

· Courageous - we dare to explore new realms of possibility

· Collaborative - we trust each other and work as a reliable team

· Creative - we think outside the box, with expertise and imagination

To be considered for this opportunity, you will already have the legal right to live and work in the UK.

“emagine is an equal opportunity employer, and employment practices are based strictly on merit. It is the policy of the Company to give equal opportunity in employment regardless of sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, age, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, religion or ethnic origin.”

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Always be kind: a simple daily affirmation and one that feels more like a personal mission statement than a corporate motto – but Pivotal isn’t just any corporation. Underpinning our world-class capabilities in cloud-native software delivery and agile development methodologies is one common thread: empathy. Not only do we want to transform the way the world builds software, we also want to make sure that sustainable pace, kindness, and diversity are at the core of every enterprise.

Known for taking an iterative approach, our 2000+ employees are empowered every day to help shape the way we build software. Pivotal is committed to open source, a diverse culture, and fostering safe spaces for all of our individual employees.

*You*

You are looking for a collaborative environment building distributed systems that enable enterprises to focus on their business rather than re-architecting a cloud platform from scratch. Pair programming has always been something that you wanted to try out.

Furthering your education has always been a goal of yours. Learning new programming languages and getting to work with Golang piques your interest.

Contributing to open source software makes you feel good about the transparency it brings to an organization’s code quality.

*Us*

Agile concepts are at the core of our process. We have a whole host of Pivotal Practices around Test Driven Development, pair programming, team retrospectives, technical retrospectives and continuous integration. We are excited to teach these to you and innovate with you on their implementation.

We stick to a strict 8 hour a day schedule (with flexible start and end times). Although on-call rotations are part of most teams, incidents are exceedingly rare.

We pair in small teams of 4 - 8 people in our London office, conveniently located at Old Street. We use Slack to stay connected and Tmux for pairing. We are working hard to make sure that our distributed teams function as smoothly as our distributed systems.

You’ll rarely be alone when developing; from pairing all day to 1 on 1 time with your manager, there is always a Pivot there to lend a helping hand. Mentorship from senior engineering leadership is built right into our process - you’ll always be empowered.

Making an investment in each Pivot’s professional development improves the organization as a whole. We encourage you to go to conferences or purchase those pricey O’Reilly books - and we’ll give you a budget each year to do it.

*Your Day*

As cliche as it may sound, every day is completely different from the next. We have a general framework for what our day looks like and the majority of it will be spent with your pair:

9:06 AM - Office-wide stand-up to build office cohesion and start the day off together.

9:10 AM - Team standup - discuss any blockers, choose pairs, maybe even tell a joke.

9:30-12:30 PM - Start pairing, tackle an open GitHub issue and open a pull-request.

12:30-1:30 PM - Lunch! Grab food from one of the many nearby restaurants, run an errand, or join a book club.

1:31-6:00 PM - Get back with your pair and start an acceptance test for a big feature.

While that schedule does look busy, don’t worry - we take ample breaks throughout the day. Take a walk to get boba, read a book on the balcony, play a game of ping pong, or chat with co-workers at the snack bar. Sustainable pace is held in high regard. We know there is a life outside of work, we want you to be able to spend time with family and friends.

*Desired Skills / Experience*

We know from experience that not ticking every box on the skills sections stops many from applying. You should apply regardless of your self-assessment because we want to hear from you.

• Ability to dive into a large polyglot codebase and contribute as you learn
• Being okay with the uncomfortable feeling that comes from learning new things
• Interest in exploring new programming paradigms, languages, and patterns
• Demonstrable ability to research problems and break them into discrete parts

*Nice to Haves*

• BA/BS in Computer Science or related field
• Operations or Systems Administration experience, particularly on UNIX
• Worked with large Go/Ruby/Rails codebases
• Used Test Driven Development (TDD) extensively
• Worked in a pair programming environment
• Contributed to an open source project
• On-call experience with production grade systems
• Has mentored others in a professional setting

Cloud Foundry engineers participate in an on-call rotation with their team to support software they work on.

Pivotal is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that will consider all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or expression, national origin, genetics, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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Senior Backend Engineer

Build great technology that improves millions of lives.

Overview

Simprints builds cutting-edge technology for some of the poorest individuals in the world, and in the most challenging environments on earth. We are working at the exciting interface of biometrics, technology, and international development where our product is used to radically increase transparency and effectiveness, making sure that every vaccine, every dollar, every education initiative reaches its intended recipient. Working with mentors from top companies like Google, Microsoft, and ARM, we design and develop both hardware and software by applying modern tools in distinctly un-modern environments with little to no internet connectivity. Simprints is currently on track to support over 4 million people by 2021.

We are looking for engineers with a focus on cloud-native backend development to join our growing tech team. You will work on an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code and robust design, along with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement. If building technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate secure, reliable, and scalable services that allow Simprints to support projects all over the world
• Leverage modern software development practices, such as DevOps, microservices and “serverless”
• Actively develop junior engineers through mentoring and design/code reviews
• Support growth of the team by attracting, on-boarding, and retaining top talent

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of professional experience building and operating backend services, with some experience in systems design
• At least 1 year of professional experience working with a major public cloud provider (Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services) using serverless or managed services (e.g. DynamoDB, BigQuery, any FaaS)
• Good understanding of software engineering basics such as (but not limited to) OOP, agile, REST, testing, SQL, NoSQL
• Commitment to lifelong learning. You eat new technologies for breakfast and stay up-to-date with recent trends (e.g. microservices, event-driven architecture, serverless)
• Ability to clearly communicate and document design decisions in both verbal and written form

Bonus points

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field
• Familiarity with Golang && (Java || Kotlin || Scala)
• Experience with mobile and/or web front-end. You have been on the other side of the API gateway

Why Simprints?

• Use recent, developer-friendly technologies that let you focus on what matters:

• Languages: Golang, Kotlin, Typescript

• Infrastructure: Managed cloud databases (Firestore, BigQuery), managed compute nodes (App Engine, Cloud Functions), managed stream processing platform (Pub/Sub), managed logging/monitoring/tracing (Stackdriver)

• Event-driven microservice architecture

• Make a positive impact on millions of the most vulnerable people in the world

• Work in a team of dedicated and talented engineers committed to writing high quality code. Our informal Clean Code Officer helps keep us honest

• Optional opportunities to see our tech in action by joining our deployments around the world: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, or Zimbabwe just to name a few

• Incredible perks

• Unlimited paid time off. Last year, the average Simprints employee took a total of 31 days off (annual leave plus UK bank holidays)

• Truly flexible working hours. More efficient late at night? That’s fine by us, start after lunch. We are looking for people who get the job done, not for people who get the job done between 9am and 5pm

• A generous budget (>£1,500) to spend on both learning and wellness. In the past, Simprints engineers have spent this on attending tech conferences, enrolling in Udacity nanodegrees, joining bouldering gyms, and organizing instructor-led yoga sessions in the office

• Two ‘LEGO Days’ each quarter where you can work on any project you want. Past projects have ranged from exploring image processing techniques to building a LEGO train to deliver beer around the office

• Work from the coolest office in Cambridge (the Bradfield Centre - think ‘mini-WeWork’)

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Armakuni empower our clients to take ideas to production in weeks, not months. Our Engineering Consultants act as change catalysts, enabling teams to leverage development best practices to fully optimise their cloud journeys.

Best practice. What does this actually mean? What’s “best” for one company doesn’t always work for others, right? Well, not quite. Research has shown that there are certain practices that lead to happier, more productive development teams and environments, and it’s these that we are positively evangelistic about here at Armakuni. We combine the practices of Software Craftsmanship, Agile/Lean, DevOps, Cloud Native architectures and infrastructures to enable high quality, high velocity, sustainable engineering teams.

What we enjoy:

• Sharing our knowledge of cutting edge tech stacks with clients and colleagues alike to ensure the long-term benefits of cloud platforms are fully leveraged
• Extolling the virtues of Test Driven Development & Continuous Integration/Delivery
• Assisting with the development of elegant micro-service products used at extreme scale
• Delivering hands-on training that ensures our legacy remains long after we do
• Regular retrospectives to figure out what we’re doing wrong so we can fix it, and what we’re doing right so we can improve on it

A day in the life:

• Your primary responsibility is training and knowledge sharing with client Engineering and Development teams. As you’ve spent most of your career coding and discovering strategies for successful DevOps or Cloud Native adoption, you are enthused by the concept of transferring this to new teams as they enhance their capabilities further
• Mentoring client engineering teams in the adoption of new tools, technologies, techniques, patterns and processes, ultimately helping leverage a range of tools and methodologies
• Driving the adoption of development best practice through whatever method is practical given the obstacles encountered.
• Representing Armakuni and communicating our vision to client engineering teams, technical management and executives when required
• Delivering training and support on world-class PaaS solutions composed of best-of-breed cloud native and CI/CD tools such as Cloud Foundry, PKS and Concourse

What does good look like?

First and foremost you will have a passion for leveraging technology to optimise processes and procedures. With a background in software development you will enjoy working alongside client Engineering teams to introduce and optimise development tools and methodologies, ultimately enhancing their cloud journey.

From a technical perspective we find those who enjoy a successful career as a Consulting Software Engineer with Armakuni typically have:

• A proven track record of software/application development with Ruby, Golang or Java
• Experience of automating deployment using CI/CD (bonus points for Concourse)
• Passion for Pair Programming and TDD - these skills are crucial in how we engage and work alongside our clients
• The ability to relay the positives and negatives of various tools, methodologies and ideas in a clear and constructive manner
• Strong communication and consulting skills - our teams are comfortable running workshops (inceptions)/standups
• Passion for growing and developing both technically and personally by tackling interesting work and challenging problems
• Ability to distill complex business requirements into simple code concepts

The reward:

We offer the chance to be a part of a rapidly evolving technology-driven community; a team of like-minded experts in sharing their knowledge not just with clients but with each other. Perks include:

• The chance to take ownership of your career within a rapidly evolving organisation; forge your own path!
• Consulting environment free from sales and utilisation targets
• Weekly company-wide retros and demos
• Opportunities to visit and present at key conferences and industry events
• Regular training and informal/social knowledge sharing sessions
• Company stickers!

Of course we also make sure that you are well looked after offering highly competitive salaries plus an ever growing benefits package which currently includes:

• Annual training allowance
• BUPA Healthcare and Employee Assistance Programme
• Shiny new MacBook Pro
• Contributory pension
• 25 days holiday

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Why this job matters

IT has become the core asset for most businesses. Our Cloud Native engineers guide our clients through this increasingly complex IT landscape.

We build confidence with cloud technologies and help clients transition to modern architecture. Our engineers also work with Cloud Native vendors on next-generation open-source tools.

What we look for

• Background in development or operations; we’re looking for senior engineers.
• Experience with at least one programming language and/or scripting (e.g. Go, Java, Python, C++, Bash).
• Experience with microservices (technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos) is valuable.
• We are a cloud agnostic. Any cloud experience (AWS, Google, Azure) is a plus.
• Cloud automation and infrastructure provisioning (Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation etc).
• We value consultancy skills and community work, such as open-source contribution, meetups and conference talks, and/or blogging. We’re more than just engineers.

Why apply

You’ll be in charge of shaping a new IT architecture for some of the best companies in the world. We work in small, self-managed teams that take full responsibility for the projects. We’re not tech/cloud service resellers. We mix the best open-source tools and services that make sense for the project. We move fast and deliver mainly short-term projects (2-4 months), mostly working from our offices. We automate the infrastructure of our customers and deploy orchestration layers on top of it to run apps and data.

All our engineers are encouraged to share their knowledge at conferences and within the company. We consider ourselves a continuous learning company. There are no rockstars here, just people that wanna grow themselves and their community. Switching between projects/roles/offices is possible and quite common.

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Who are we?

Blokur is a platform that helps musicians and music companies get paid what they should, when they should. We are a curious, diverse and creative team representing five countries and counting. And our users represent 60% of music industry revenue

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer that can help us enhance our innovative platform for the music industry. You will be working directly on product features and overseeing the scalability of our infrastructure.

The Role

• Implement new product features and deploy them on an on-going basis.
  
• Work on the whole software development lifecycle.
  
• Help drive product vision, working closely with stakeholders to deliver scalable product features.
  
• Lead the scaling up our infrastructure based on an AWS, Golang, Node.js and PostgreSQL.
  
• Help the team champion software quality in a pragmatic manner.
  
• Be part of a highly collaborative and cross-functional team that values the creativity to experiment and build a product we are all proud of.

About you

• Worked in a similar role before shipping scalable product features.
  
• Best practices like; Continuous Integration, Infrastructure as code, Containers and Microservices are very familiar to you.
  
• Have experience working with distributed systems.
  
• Are interested in joining a dynamic start-up environment, feel comfortable picking up new programming languages and technologies and like to take ownership.
  
• Can bring an entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit to the team.
  
• Have a passion for music and an interest in decentralised applications.

Perks & Benefits

• Competitive salary
  
• Share options
  
• Generous holiday allowance
  
• Generous family leave
  
• Flexible working
  
• An opportunity to make your mark in a fast-growing start-up re-imagining the way that creators get paid

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Third Light is hiring a back-end developer, either a seasoned Go developer or a back-end developer looking to cross-train to Go.

You may work remotely as your full-time arrangement, joining a team that already includes remote workers.

This is about delivering sophisticated new product features for release to our state-of-the-art software service that helps companies manage and share their digital media files easily – features that will have immediate positive impact for our global user base.

We’re a small and expanding software development team, building an enterprise application with a highly-polished UI, using the very best and latest techniques. We employ an iterative, design-led process where everyone on the team gets a say. We’re agile and manage our work using a gentle Kanban process with daily stand-ups and we encourage a lightweight, productive approach to development.

Our product is a JavaScript application loosely-coupled to a back end built on Go microservices and legacy PHP. We use microservices for all new features and Go is our chosen language to do this. In parallel we are migrating our older codebase to Go microservices.

Your opinion and expertise will be valued from day one.

Upcoming projects within the team

• Create a metrics & reporting system to track usage of features, document downloads and image views
• Implement a full SFTP client & server interface to integrate with SLR Cameras and legacy systems
• Extend workflow and automation microservices to create intuitive automated channel publishing tools
• Implement a scripting layer, API proxy and key-value storage engine for template-publishing tool
• Create a chat server that provides in-app chat while integrating with external chat systems (e.g. Slack)
• Automate orchestration of microservices in our product e.g. exploring Kubernetes
• < your idea here! >

We’re looking for

• Someone who’s positive about Go and wishes to learn and embrace this exciting language
• Proven back end coding skills, in a Linux environment e.g. any of; Go, Java, PHP, Node.js, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Ruby
• An enthusiasm for continuous unit and integration testing
• Skills designing, building, testing and maintaining web services, ideally microservices
• Ability to maintain and support a large, live, production codebase
• Familiarity with relational databases e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment preferably within a Git-based workflow
• Optionally, familiarity with porting an OO monolith to a microservice architecture and/or OO PHP
• Someone considering mid level back-end Developer jobs such as: Go Developer | Go Microservices Developer | Golang Developer | Java Developer | Node.js Developer | PHP Developer | Python Developer etc.

You may bring - or like to gain - skills exploring any of the following

• Containers, containers as services and automated container deployment
• Large-scale storage, manipulation and streaming of multimedia
• Machine intelligence, visual recognition or similar numerical computation
• Production experience in systems configuration, monitoring, logging, and metrics gathering

Our current technology mix - we’ll help you get up to speed

Go (aka Golang) | JavaScript | PHP | NGINX | MySQL | SockJS | RabbitMQ | Debian | macOS | VMware | Git | Jira | Bitbucket | Bamboo | Slack | Basecamp

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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 🚀

Please note: we get lots of successful applications for Backend Engineer, so there could be a delay in scheduling interviews from the initial stage right up until the final interviews. If you’re invited to interview and you have any immediate time pressures, please let us know, as we’ll always do our best to speed things up for you 😊

Our backend engineers have a variety of different backgrounds

We have several non-graduates; only some of us studied Computer Science; one of the team has a degree in Marketing; 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 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 regularly run hackathons in which people build things on our third party API and we contribute to open source software as much as possible. We’ve also made ourproduct roadmap public and give sneak peeks of features in our community forum. Our blog is a good place to learn even more about what we do!

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

We have around 150 engineers out of roughly 800 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.

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 (there’s an excellent interactive Go tutorial here)

• Cassandra for most persistent data storage

• Kafka for our asynchronous message queue

• Envoy Proxy for RPC

• Kubernetes and Docker to schedule and run our services (Oliver,our Head of Engineering, gave a great talk at KubeCon on how we use these technologies)

• AWS for most of our infrastructure

• React for internal web dashboards

• We also have two physical datacenter sites with actual cables to connect to various third parties

You should apply if:

• the work we’re doing sounds exciting!

• you want to be involved in building a product that you (andeveryone 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

• you’re interested in distributed systems and writing resilient software

• you have some experience with strongly-typed languages (Go,Java, C, Scala etc.).

At the moment, the following teams are looking for backend engineers:

Product The product backend team work primarily on creating backend services and APIs for our in-app user-facing features. They work closely with our mobile engineers and designers to create a delightful user experience, and to drive growth and retention. Projects that Product backend engineers have worked on recently include Summary (giving people insight into their finances to empower them to spend sensibly) and the Current Account Switch Service (all the hard work to allow users to move to Monzo quickly and easily).

Lending The Lending team works on making borrowing money simple, fair and transparent. They’ve already shipped and scaled overdrafts to hundreds of thousands of Monzo customers and they’ve made it easy to take out a loan without the unfair fees or confusing pricing that you find elsewhere. They work on everything from the way borrowing works in the app, right down to how they move and account for money that our customers borrow. One of the most interesting problems they face is deciding how much to lend and to whom. The team believes that they can make access to credit fairer and more transparent.

Logistics

We can help you relocate to London, we can sponsor visas, and we’re open to remote working (as long as you can spend around 20% of your time in London).

We offer competitive salaries based on skills and experience, which could be anywhere between £40,000 - £100,000 per year.

We care deeply about inclusive working practices and diverse teams. If you’d prefer to work part-time or as a job-share, we’ll facilitate this wherever we can - whether to help you meet other commitments or to help you strike a great work-life balance.

We’re continually hiring for Backend Engineers! Our interview process typically consists of an initial phone screen, a take-home code task, and a half-day on-site interview. We promise not to ask you any brain teasers or trick questions, and we won’t make you code on a whiteboard

Questions about this role? Head over to our careers page to read our FAQs (www.monzo.com/careers) or email tech-hiring@monzo.com

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About us At Teamwork, we pride ourselves on creating the best software, working with outstanding people, and going above and beyond for our customers. That excellence has been rewarded with hundreds of thousands of amazing customers all across the globe and millions of users who sign in every day to trust us with getting their businesses organized and running productively. We’re a profitable, entirely self-funded business with no investors or outside influences beyond one: our customers and what’s best for them. It’s a responsibility that we take very seriously. We’re a company of action, full of triers and doers: we try things, we make mistakes, and we learn from them.

Growing this team from Cork with an extremely talented group of people is an amazing journey to be a part of. We’re a place to work unlike any other, with a unique, creative way of doing things: see for yourself.

We’re looking for an experienced back end developer to join our team and help us create our super-cool, super-secret new product.

Must have Experience with Go. Knowledge of REST and developing APIs. Experience with MySQL/MariaDB. Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services, preferably AWS. Good communication skills. Nice to have Experience with any of the following:

Kubernetes. RabbitMQ / AMQP. Redis or similar for caching.

Perks & Benefits

What you can expect

Working at Teamwork isn’t like a normal job. We believe in hiring only the best and then looking after them like they deserve. On top of a great financial package, we do everything possible to make Teamwork a great place to work.

We believe in paying a competitive salary: earn what you’re worth, with regular reviews. We’re committed to your long-term future at the company, and we’re passionate about helping you to improve and enhance your skills.

You have unparalleled freedom in how you do your job. Spot something that needs improving? Off you go, make it happen. You’ll be given only the very best equipment so that, whatever your role, you’ll have the very best kit to help you do your best work.

We take work-life balance very seriously: we’ll set you up with a subsidized gym membership at the gym of your choice and when you come to Cork, you will get regular company-sponsored lunches, movie nights, and nights out.

Sounds epic? Join the journey at Teamwork.

Teamwork is an equal opportunities employer.

Interview Process

Preliminary interview with HR Tech Test (Quick Golang project in your spare time) Tech interview Offer :)

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We are Healum - a well funded digital health company on a mission to improve and save 100 million lives across the globe. We believe that everyone should have access to better personalised preventative healthcare and healthcare professionals should be empowered to deliver this experience to their patients. Digital solutions can make this a reality. We build digital products to enable patients to monitor and understand their health, and software that empowers health professionals to achieve better outcomes with their patients. Our single aim is to maximise people’s engagement with their health by delighting them with products that make them feel confident, supported and motivated.

We are looking for a Golang Software Engineer based for a full-time position, to help further build Healum’s distributed services platform to enhance our value proposition to our users. Are you excited about building petabyte-scale, business-critical, distributed software that helps people to transform their health outcomes? Do you find a peculiar satisfaction in bringing efficiency through intelligent algorithms? Do you enjoy looking at real-time data and incorporating that in to how you build software? The most important characteristic is that you can wear many hats and you’ll love getting your hands dirty with planning, scaling, security and testing. You’ll have a passion for playing a lead role in envisioning our platform services and preparing Healum for scale and high availability. You will work closely with the founders to build high quality and scalable systems that are integrated with our products that establish Healum as a leader in providing useful and intelligent solutions for clinicians and their patients.

You have

• 5+ years experience in software development
• Extensive knowledge of Golang and at least one other formal software languages (think compiled software languages C/C+, Java, Scala, Erlang, Clojure). **This is really important**. In your application note - please mention ONE feature about Golang that you like in order to qualify your application for consideration.
• Experience in building distributed scalable and fault tolerant systems using micro-services, CEP, MQs.
• Strong experience in working with data and multiple datastores both SQL / Non- SQL like relational data stores, document data stores, caches and graph Databases
• Experience using go-micro or some other microservices framework and other tools like glide, godep, gorilla mux, revel,
• Affinity for smart hacking over process and the ability to take complex technical requirements and breaking them down into smaller execution units.
• Ruthless capabilities of documenting major technical details outside of the code and minor ones inside the code.
• cognitive abilities to choose smart practices over best practices with a keen eye over security and scalability.
• experience in continuously shipping and testing through deployment pipelines using CI/CD tools in an agile development environment.
• experience in performance tuning your code and scalability thinking while writing it.

You also have

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and service mesh concepts
• Familiarity in Linux systems (like Centos) and some experience in scripting, automation and tooling.
• Experience working with virtualisation systems (like Docker, Vagrant etc.) VMs and hypervisors (like vsphere, xenserver etc.)
• Experience working with orchestration tools (like Kubernetes, Mesos, Docker Swarm etc.) and container registeries (GCE, Docker hub etc.)
• Crazy attention to detail - sleepless nights because you found a bug that you couldn’t resolve at 5:44 pm.
• Familiarity with agile development practices (a/b testing, unit testing, continuous deployment,continuous integration,scrums) and worked in a production environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate technical concepts to a wide variety of audience.
• Ability to be empathetic and form strong working relations with your team members, customers and partners.

As one of our first team members, a typical day might include some of the following

• Write, test, debug and ship code and gather feedback on scale, performance, security to incorporate back into the platform.
• Work with the founders to identify complex technical problems and solve them.
• Work with the product design and client experience development team to support them with scalable services
• Feed into the overall mission and vision of the Healum’s platform over the period of coming months and years.
• Inspire us with latest technical trends and frameworks especially in programming languages, data stores, security and create some of your own.
• Work with the infrastructure team to squeeze every ounce of efficiency from our existing systems.

To land this gig, you need…

Quality experience in building large scale distributed systems, a formal degree in computer science, physics or mathematics. Background and expertise in software development, micro services, API integrations, data analytics, security and huge scale thinking!

Would you like to make a lasting impact in people’s lives and change them for better? Then get in touch. Absolutely NO recruitment agencies or outsourcing companies as we work with our PSL only.

Interview Process

If you are interested in this role email us at hello@healum.com with your CV, and one feature about Golang that you like and why!

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Over is an exciting Silicon Valley startup based in Cape Town, focused on making visual content and design easy for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Our vision is to inspire the world to create and empower small business owners, self-starters, and entrepreneurs with the tools and knowledge to create eye-catching visual content that helps their brands grow.

You will assist in building robust backend microservices to support content, search and other features which will drive the business to scale.

Perks & Benefits

• Unique learning and development opportunities
• Remote-friendly work environment
• Unlimited leave
• Choose your hours to match your energy levels
• Own shares with generous stock options
• A progressive and meaningful maternity and paternity policy
• A monthly travel subsidy for your commute to work
• A culture focused heavily on wellness
• A dynamic and engaging work environment where you can:
  • Spend your downtime with a buddy playing table tennis
  • Flex your mind and muscles in weekly yoga sessions
  • Find your zen with daily meditation sessions
  • Increase resilience with weekly physiotherapy treatments
  • Get your hair styled and trimmed once a month
  • Enjoy in-house coffees, teas, smoothies, and drinks made by our awesome barista
  • Read more with your Kindle (courtesy of Over) and Expensify all your books

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Vidsy is the new way to create, combining tech with a new generation of creators and its world leading creative intelligence to deliver best-in-class video ads.

Vidsy is one of the fastest growing creative platforms globally with offices in New York & London. The creative platform driving digital transformation for the world’s leading advertisers, Vidsy is a creative partner with Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Pinterest, while also being awarded Facebook’s Global Innovator for ‘Creativity in Video’.

Our Vision

Vidsy is built on 3 key pillars; Create, Disrupt and Unite. We believe that fates of brands and creators are intertwined; and that together we can build a new advertising model that drives value for all. Vidsy is defining a new era of creativity empowered by technology, constantly evolving and always in motion.

The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us to build and scale the services that power our innovative products. We use cutting edge technologies such as GoLang, React, Redux and microservices to power our platform and products.

This is a chance to have a real impact, where your contributions make a difference and you will have input into the way code, culture and product are built at Vidsy.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Being involved in the end-to-end lifecycle of features, from concept to deployment to metrics.
• Contributing to our technical discussions and architecture.
• Working in an autonomous, multi-functional team of developers, QA engineers, designers and product owners.

Requirements

• 5+ years experience in software engineering (GoLang, Ruby, Python, PHP and/or C) or equivalent.
• Commercial experience working in GoLang and with distributed systems.
• Solid foundation of architecting production services at scale.
• A good understanding of design patterns and software engineering principles.
• Pragmatic approach to writing unit and integration tests.
• An active interest in programming with Go (it’s our primary back end language).
• An understanding of large micro-service oriented architectures.

Diversity at Vidsy

Vidsy is working hard to create a representative, inclusive and super-friendly team, because we believe different experiences, perspectives and backgrounds make a better workplace, and ultimately better products.

Vidsy doesn’t discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion or belief, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, disability or any other protected class.

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Company

Utility Warehouse is a FTSE 250 organisation which has established itself as the most trusted supplier of utility products in the UK. Utility Warehouse is the only genuine multi-utility operator in the market providing gas, electricity, landline, broadband, mobile & insurance products and services to households and businesses nationwide, all on one single monthly bill. With over 600,000 customers the organisation has grown through a philosophy of offering savings, simplicity and service. Customers enjoy a number of advantages, including membership of a discount club, and a unique CashBack reward system on everyday shopping. The organisation does not advertise, preferring instead to invest in customer services and to keep prices low. Utility Warehouse has predominantly grown through a network of over 45,000 partners who operate as lead generators and advocates for the organisation. These partners come from a range of personal and professional backgrounds, and actively take it upon themselves to promote and recommend Utility Warehouse to friends, families and their professional networks. Trust between these partners and the organisation is crucial, and ensures that customer service and satisfaction are consistently prioritised.

Background

Utility Warehouse is an energetic and entrepreneurial challenger in a market traditionally composed of monolithic, slow competitors. In the utilities market, it is difficult to compete on the quality of the product and therefore establishing a strong value proposition is crucial to avoid a race to the bottom on price. Utility Warehouse has established itself as the most trusted brand in its sector, winning accolades from industry publications and consumer advisory guides. Customer service is at the core of their business ethos and another way they differentiate from their competitors; 93% of customers would recommend the organisation to a friend. By establishing a best-in-class experience for the consumer, Utility Warehouse commands a strong market position in an age where technology makes it increasingly easy to access information on consumers’ experiences. The organisation is well-placed to capture an increasingly large portion of the £52bn market that they operate in. By staying true to their values of trust and service, Utility Warehouse is the only major provider in the market to be both growing and profitable.

Utility Warehouse has an adaptive, agile, fast-paced culture which has enabled it to grow rapidly. The management team has expanded over the last two years as part of the growth strategy with significant hires in technology, legal, marketing, and finance. These hires and the rebuilding of the platform will enable the company to grow to two million customers over the medium-term. Utility Warehouse operates at high-transactional scale, processing large volumes of data. This presents new opportunities to understand customer behaviours better and to create an improved customer experience as a result.

Opportunity

With ambitious product plans for the future, it is important to have a solid foundation to enable growth for the business, allow innovation and achieve rapid time to market. To realise this, the underlying platforms and systems must be designed to be flexible, modular and resilient.

You will join our Insurance team tasked with designing and building the insurance platform from the ground up to enable new opportunities to our insurance product and services.

The platform will be a set of simple and intelligent APIs built using microservices and event driven architectures. Internally, the decision and rating engines will leverage integration with numerous 3rd party systems to provide quotes, offer addons, allow policy uptake and operational management.

Key responsibilities

• Design, architect and build multi-channel platform solutions
• Contribute ideas and influence business wide solution architecture
• Build robust and scalable end-to-end software solutions
• Participate in the entire development life cycle, from requirements to delivery
• Influence other team members in a cross functional product team
• Build integrations with legacy systems with a focus on eventually moving away from them

Key requirements

• Good engineering skill with an eye for both modelling and code architecture
• Knowledge of when and how to apply test driven approaches
• Understanding of microservice/service oriented and distributed architectures
• Understanding of event source and/or event driven architectures
• Belief in agile principles and a devops culture and be familiar working in a agile enviornment
• Experience with a modern programming language (preferably golang)
• Experience with containers and container orchestration technology will be beneficial but not essential

Interview Process

Hangout with engineering manager, pairing interview and whiteboard (non-algorithmic)

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SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER (GOLANG)

Location:Cambridge, UK Contact: careers@speechmatics.com

“Speechmatics is on the bleeding edge of speech recognition, and as a Software Engineer, I get to build the infrastructure to deliver this at scale using state-of-the-art technology. As well as that, I work with a wonderful team and there’s a very welcoming and supportive culture in the company. If you’re currently looking for a new opportunity, and are interested in a position in one of the best Machine Learning companies in the UK, look no further.”

Michel Hollands, Software Development Engineer at Speechmatics

Background

Speech technology is one of the most popular discussion items at the moment, yet speech interaction is limited to “Alexa, turn on the light”, or “Siri, where is the nearest coffee shop?” We are taking speech technology to the next level using our expertise in machine learning and speech-to-text technology to enable our customers to use conversational speech recognition. Our solutions power subtitling on TV, content discovery for videos, compliance solutions in banks, improve efficiency of meetings, and many other use-cases. Our mission is to improve human communication with a global speech engine, that works and put speech back at the heart of communication.

At Speechmatics you’ll be working with some of the smartest minds in the industry, working on cutting-edge projects and deploying the latest machine learning techniques to disrupt the market, providing customers with the best speech technology available, all whilst immersed in a progressive and great company culture. You can enjoy benefits including, share options, healthcare, life assurance, Bike Doctor, massages, regular BBQs, Brew Dogs in the fridge, no red tape, a top end laptop and much more. We’re building a company that truly strives to be world-leading and we’re looking for people who wholeheartedly believe they can be additive to our culture, bring new ideas to the table and get stuff done. If that’s you, carry on reading.

The Opportunity

The Speechmatics Engineering team develops and maintains speech-oriented products and services that will be used by businesses worldwide and is responsible for the complete product development cycle for these products. In this role, you’ll help to support fundamental language processing research as well as helping to build our public cloud-based SaaS service and products that will be deployed by our users in their data centres and cloud instances.

You’ll solve and overcome challenges to deliver a rapidly growing product portfolio. In addition to helping deliver features you will help drive the system architecture as well as contribute towards defining and improving the best practices we employ to develop new features and products. Initially, your primary coding language will be Python, however, you’ll be tasked with helping the team adopt Go as our primary coding language when compiled code is preferred.

Because you will be joining a rapidly expanding team, you will need to be a team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on rapidly moving research developments into products. We strongly encourage versatility and knowledge transfer within and across teams.

No prior experience of speech recognition is necessary. Speechmatics has a team of speech recognition engineers who will collaborate on all speech recognition related projects and teach you any specialised knowledge required. This will include opportunities to participate in internal training courses aimed at teaching machine learning theory and practice. If you are a talented, detail-oriented engineer with a solid software development foundation and a commitment to deliver the best possible technology solutions, then we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Delivering high quality, maintainable and robust code on time, as part of a team
• Executing projects and developing against an outlined design
• Developing pragmatic solutions and building flexible systems without over-engineering
• Involvement at all stages of the software development cycle, including designing and developing new architectural systems and improvements, and QA processes
• Participation in estimation and sprint planning in an agile environment
• Working closely with other technical teams and the product team to deliver on the company’s technical vision
  

Requirements

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Professional experience in software development
• Computer Science fundamentals in object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, problem solving, and complexity analysis
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
• Analytical with a data-driven approach to making decisions and attention to detail
• Excellent Go skills
• Good Python skills
• Good Linux development skills
• Experience of working within a team to create, deliver, and run high quality systems

Desirable

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• Proficiency in C, C++, or JavaScript
• Strong skills and experience in cloud-based software development, preferably Azure:
• Working with distributed and/or clustered systems.
• Building and running horizontally scaling architectures.
• Using cloud-based queueing, messaging, monitoring and storage techniques.
• Familiarity with some of Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker, Docker Swarm, Elasticsearch, TeamCity, GitLab, JIRA, Kubernetes, Nginx, Nomad, Terraform
• Familiarity with statistical models and data mining algorithms
• Familiarity with Natural Language Processing techniques
• Comfortable collaborating with teams with very different technical skills, and non-technical teams

Perks & Benefits

Salary

Competitive salary (dependent on experience), flexible working and some awesome benefits & perks.

Interested?

Get in touch! Send your CV and covering letter to careers@speechmatics.com.

More about Speechmatics’ culture

Live for the wow | Build authentic relationships | Be the adventure

Innovation is what we do. We build, we iterate, we develop the next thing that delivers that wow moment. We see value in building long-term, authentic relationships that last and are based on trust and honesty. With our customers, our colleagues, our leaders, our suppliers or within our local community. Our journey should be fun and exciting. We will celebrate our successes and learn from our mistakes together along the way. We embrace learning and change to grow naturally and organically as a company and individuals. We trust, we’re honest, kind and respectful.

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