GetGround is developing the infrastructure for a global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in companies. Trillions of dollars of assets are tied in inefficient illiquid markets - think property, ships, factory machinery & infrastructure to name a few.
Enveloping an asset in a company unlocks liquidity by enabling the right legal basis for asset ownership, governance and exchange. However companies, one of humanity's greatest inventions, are stuck in the past. We are digitising and automating the company, through:
Backend Engineer | Hammersmith, London
A Backend Engineer at GetGround works on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We primarily use Golang, deployed on Google Cloud. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.
This is a unique opportunity to be part of building a product with significant market fit as it scales exponentially. Beyond strong traditional technical skills, we’re huge fans of clean design thinking and architecting, as well as communication and an ability to learn and adapt.
The role comes with immense scope for growth and impact in a zero-ego, zero-BS environment. We’re building a team that works together to solve hard problems that will enable us to achieve our mission to make assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible.
In this role, you will develop:
Technical rigour through collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thorough refinement processes. We want hackers and painters!
Simple, clear and concise communication and documentation of technical ideas
A challenger mindset - to implement new patterns and libraries, and to improve readability and efficiency
What you will do
Working in a cross functional, collaborative team, you will participate in the entire application lifecycle, from architecting to development, testing and review
You will design and write clean documentation
You will work closely with product to design functionality
You will collaborate with Frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
You will provide training and support to internal teams. We believe in constant learning and growing - everybody learns from each other
You will build reusable code and libraries for future use
The experience you will have
About us
Hello, we are GetGround. We have been in stealth mode building amazing products to disrupt a marketplace. We are building a new global network for trading assets, starting with residential property. We have just secured Series A funding and are on a significant growth trajectory that has the confidence of QED, Mosaic as well as several prestigious private investors.
Our Co-Founder and CEO Moubin qualified as a Doctor and went on to have a successful career at McKinsey and private equity house, APAX. Moubin started GetGround with his brother and our CTO, Misrab. Misrab is a Stanford Computer Scientist that led the scaling of the Gojek Data Science team in Asia.
We are proud of how far we have come since 2018, but humbled and excited at what there is still to achieve. Our values sit at the core of everything we do - pursuit of excellence, feedback obsessed, No BS and healthy egos.
If you are great talent, but working somewhere where you don't feel recognised, developed, rewarded or included, your next home could be GetGround. Join us!
Please note, whilst we have flexible working, this role will be office based when we are able to return to the office.
Diversity & inclusion at GetGround
GetGround encourages applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are focussed on and committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
GetGround benefits
Our Team
There's a great opportunity for disruption in the UK energy market. We’re one of the big suppliers, we’re agile and move quickly when it comes to tech. We’re evolving our IT landscape from traditional on-premise monoliths to a collection of scalable, independent micro services which enable us to react to the fast paced nature of business and uncertainty.
Our Software Engineering practice is at the heart of this transformation, and is a multi-disciplined team with generalists and specialists; be it front-end, back-end, DevOps, SRE or QA – everyone’s welcome!
We are supported by strong collaboration with our architects, delivery leads and product owners
Our methodology is based around agile delivery, DevOps structure and high amounts of test and pipeline automation.
We’d love to hear from engineers who want to help shape, develop and grow our software engineering practice.
Our Technology
We work almost exclusively within the native cloud space, leveraging the AWS platform and an ecosystem of SaaS components. We aim to be serverless first, where practical, and recognise and use containerization where necessary.
A high level view of our tech stack is:
Our Roles
We’re keen to speak with Engineers who are:
Competitive Salary and Benefits
You can expect a competitive salary and benefits package. In addition to the salary you’ll benefit from an excellent pension scheme, flexible lifestyle benefits options and entry into the bonus scheme.
Although our roles are advertised on a full-time basis as standard, flexible working arrangements will be considered.
Why EDF?
Together, we can beat the climate crisis. Together, we can help Britain achieve net zero.
We’re EDF and Britain’s biggest generator of low carbon electricity. We’re not only talking about climate change, we’re doing something about it.
We’re leading the charge for electric driving in Britain. Helping to build the nation’s low carbon network and economy. Generating power from clean sources like, wind, nuclear and solar. Investing in research into new carbon cutting tech.
Our positive energy gets each of us up every morning, and we’re proud of the great things we’re doing together.
If you want to build your future, join us and share our vision. Together, we’ll help Britain achieve net zero.
Working pattern -Â Flexible working, Full-time, (Job share / Part-time options)
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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. Â
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the advertising recruiter, Darren Weeks on 01633 651628 or darren.weeks@ons.gov.uk
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About the Job
We are currently looking for a Back-End (Golang) Engineer to work alongside a very exciting client of ours. They are disrupting the global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in company shells.
The role will entail being the back bone of the tech team and it is a unique opportunity to be part of a product with significant market fit as it scales exponentially.
About You
You are huge fan of clean design thinking & architecting, as well as a good communicator with the ability to learn and adapt.
Commercial experience with Golang and Java, along with an understanding of other programming languages such as ES6 & Python.
You will be well versed with database technologies like SQL, noSQL, key-value stores (e.g. mySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis…)
Strong knowledge of cloud technologies such as Google Cloud or AWS & experience with CI/CD
Familiar with unit testing, integration testing, or similar testing frameworks
About Us
We’re one of the fastest growing digital agencies in the UK, helping the world’s biggest brands to transform their customer experiences and become the leaders in digital change.
We’re not just about building digital products. Using our Rapid Actionable Innovation Engine, we take our clients on a journey of digital transformation, identifying and solving their challenges from a truly customer-first perspective.
But we wouldn’t be where we are without our people. We hire only the best, the smartest and the nicest folks in digital – those who push boundaries, who think big and are not afraid to be different. There are a few things that make us special, but we like to think our culture is what truly makes the difference. We’re brave. We’re innovators. We lead with knowledge. And we make sure everything we do creates success. If You think you’d fit in, apply https://www.somoglobal.com/career/ or drop us an email at workwithus@somoglobal.com
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What You Will Do:
By the time you've reached the end of this paragraph, Red Ventures will have made countless API transactions, all thanks to the expertise of our Engineers. Instead of logging hours chained to a desk, our engineers have an active role in our business. As a Software Engineer on our team, you will build and maintain the RESTful services and FullStack applications and will play a key role in the development of our SaaS-based projects, such as live chat platforms, web analytics suites, live streaming dashboards, and more.
How We Work:
Iterate - Red tape doesn’t get in our way. We believe that "Speed Trumps Perfection" so we test and deploy daily.
Autonomy – Aspiring entrepreneurs succeed here because you will have full-ownership over your work from beginning to end.
Collaborate – Better than making the dream work, teamwork makes the code work. Through open work-space, Slack and peer reviews, our teams work together to build amazing solutions.
Innovate – With the belief that “Everything is Written in Pencil”, we encourage our teams to test new frameworks, learn new languages and challenge the “status quo” to make us better.
What You Need:
2+ years of recent server side experience in technologies such as C#, Golang, PHP, or Node
Experience in front-end technologies such as React, Angular and Polymer
Cloudy with a guarantee of AWS and Docker Containers
Experience with databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, etc.
Knowledge of unit-testing (TDD/BDD tool i.e. Jasmine, Mocha, Protractor)
Understanding of how to build and consume REST APIs
Building modular and scalable code
A sense of humor and thirst for knowledge
Who We Are:
Red Ventures is a leading digital, consumer-choice platform based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through deeply integrated brand partnerships and consumer-facing assets, Red Ventures connects online customers with products and services across high-growth industries including home services, financial services, and healthcare. Founded in 2000, Red Ventures has more than 2,700 employees in offices across the Carolinas, Seattle, Washington, London and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
This position will be located in London, England. We are looking for a local engineer to work on our start up team.
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At Curve, we are on a mission to simplify and unify the way people spend, send, see and save money. Centralising your money into a smart card, connected to an even smarter app. With Curve you can spend from all your accounts, track spend behaviour and provide insights, and security to protect you from fraud. For the first time giving you bright insights and control of all your money in one place.
We're developing a ground-breaking product with our customers at the core. Our user base is growing rapidly and we have exceptional metrics. We have funding from some of the leading names in tech investment, and a visionary leadership team who wants everyone who joins this remarkable adventure, to have the autonomy to masterfully develop their expertise.
Languages PHP, GO
Messaging RabbitMQ (and maybe Kafka in the future)
Data Snowplow, Python for the ETL
Our development practises include TDD, BDD, Scrum
Database PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redshift
Mobile IOS/Android; Objective-C/Swift/Java/Kotlin
Our devops culture includes CI, CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Istio & Envoy, AWS
Our ideal team member will have the following talents, skills & experience
2+ years of software development experience
In-depth knowledge of more than one software language among Golang, Java, C++, with Go experience preferable but not essential
Experience of building microservices; ideally deployed in Docker containers on Kubernetes
Experience of agile development practices
Experience with RDBMS & NoSQL datastores
Bonus points for real-time low latency high frequency transaction based systems
Ability to diagnose problems at any level (Client, HTTP/Network, Server, Database, OS)
Demonstrable experience of building large concurrent applications
Bonus points for experience of developing and shipping mobile apps to the App or Play store
Experience of developing and running large scale production environments in or closely with DevOps / SRE
A genuine interest in working in a fast paced startup and ideally Fintech
Voracious appetite for learning