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Graduate Software Developer Vaion London, United Kingdom ÂŁ30,000 to ÂŁ50,000 a year
February 2020
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Vaion
Vaion was founded in February 2018 by a very experienced team to revolutionize a multi-billion dollar security market with cutting-edge hardware and software, applying the latest advancements within machine learning, computer vision, and design. Right now, we are in the process of strengthening the initial engineering and commercial team for our product, so this is an incredible opportunity to enter an exciting and innovative company right from the beginning. Join us if you want to challenge and disrupt an existing technology market and have fun on the way.
We are looking for software engineers from graduate to experienced engineers in engineering or science with the highest academic achievement and experience in modern software development from the chip to the cloud.
Graduate Candidate Profile
Are you the sort of student that has been coding since you were really young? Have you developed a reputation for being a bit of a âtechieâ? Perhaps you build and configure computers in your spare time or your friends come to you with their PC problems for you to fix? Maybe you contribute to open source software as a hobby? If you do have experience developing software either for a University project or as a hobby and can show us on GitHub for elsewhere please let us know when you apply so we can discuss it at the interview!
You will also have a good degree (First or 2.1) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related subject.
Vaion Graduate Programme
Every new graduate hire is assigned a mentor who will be a senior member of the development team and your mentor is responsible for overseeing your development through the first few years of your career ensuring that you are given the necessary support and guidance as you develop your career as a software developer. Your mentor will also be responsible for ensuring that you will gain experience in a number of different areas of development so you will be able to discover what particular area you might wish to specialise in longer term. From day one graduate hires will be given the opportunity to become responsible for designing and developing a key part of the product. You will quickly gain experience across the full software development lifecycle from design through coding, testing and support across a wide range of technologies and languages
Desirable experience and skills
Your experience with any particular languages isnât critical but prior experience in any of the following would be an advantage:
Knowledge of a general purpose programming language, including any of: Golang, Python, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, HTML or CSS.
Designing, developing and consuming REST APIs.
Knowledge of network security (e.g. SSL/TLS) and other crypto concepts.
Appreciation of test-driven development, continuous integration/deployment, Kanban.
Experience using Version Control Software such as Git as part of working in a team.
Experience developing for Machine Learning / Computer Vision
The Offer
Cutting-edge technical challenge
Immediate input into product development
Competitive salary
Equity
Visa Sponsorship available
Vaion graduate development program
How to apply:
If it sounds like you would be a good fit for us, please email a CV and portfolio to Marcus at hiring@vaion.com.
Our interview process is very informal - don't bother wearing a business suit! Just come prepared to talk about your experience, interest in technology, and meet our team.
Product Engineer Butternut Box London, United Kingdom ÂŁ53,000 to ÂŁ63,000 a year
October 2019
8 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
A bit about us.
At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. Thatâs why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions.
We want to change the pet food industry for the better by helping dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives. We have come a long way since our co-founders (Kevin & David) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box.
We are on a mission to provide the best customer experience, feed more dogs and revolutionize an arcane industry using the latest technology. Thatâs where you come in.
Who we are looking for.
You have a minimum of 3+ years of relevant experience.
You care deeply about engineering culture and the quality of products you and your team build.
You love the web and new technologies (we use Elm, Golang & more on a regular basis).
You have an analytical mind and love solving problems as part of a team.
If you have made open source contributions to a project in any language (even English!) thatâs a plus.
A bit about the role.
As part of the engineering team, you will report into our Head of Engineering. You will also work closely with the Product, Marketing and Customer Love Teams to help solve problems.
In this role, you can expect to:
Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the team to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are build
Work across the stack (Ruby on Rails, Elm, React JS, PostgreSQL) to deliver quality, maintainable code.
Collaborate and learn with other team members via pair programming, mentoring, code reviews, and technical talks.
Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.
A bit about you.
Degree in Computer Science BSc or a BSc in a related field, or experience in lieu of this
A minimum of 3+ years experience in a similar role
Experience in Ruby or another object-oriented language
Experience with Elm is a plus
Analytical and problem-solving skills
Pro-active, entrepreneurial 'can doâ attitude
Passion for startups
Obsessed with dogs!
What we can offer.
Salary between ÂŁ53,000 - ÂŁ63,000
New Macbook pro
24 days holiday per year
A dedicated office in a co-working space in White City
Weekly âlunch & learnsâ
Friday beers, monthly socials, and quarterly off-site events.
Dogs. (Chambo, Lexie, Bella, Willow & Pugwash to name a few)
We have big plans to grow over the next few years so it is an exciting time to be joining BB. You will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in developing the products that will define the future of Butternut Box. This role is for someone who is hungry for that challenge.
Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
Senior Backend Engineer Attest London, United Kingdom ÂŁ70,000 to ÂŁ100,000 a year
September 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Welcome! Weâre Attest: a Consumer Growth Platform. Weâre on a mission to bring every business closer to consumers, and empower them with the insights that drive predictable and repeatable growth; enabling them to create and deliver better, more useful services, products and experiences for communities worldwide.
Weâre spearheaded by a bunch of awesome individuals, and our guess is that youâre pretty awesome, too. Weâre ultra-proud of the inclusive company weâve built to date. Attest is not just an exciting place to work alongside great people, but a feeling â one of belonging and adventure. Weâre delighted that youâve taken the first step to becoming an Attester by expressing an interest in who we are and what we do.
About the Technology team
Engineers join us for the technical challenges we overcome and stay for the incredible culture our Engineers create and grow, from talking at meetups such as the monthly 'London Microservices Meetup' (hosted and set up by our very own Technical Director) to contributing regularly to open source software (we're lucky to have the core contributor to Vue.js in our ranks). We work very closely with Product and Design in cross-functional squads, each of which has the autonomy to practice agile in the way that works best for them. We're also excited to build out a Data Science function here at Attest, focusing on ML and NLP techniques to provide greater insights to our customers and safeguard our high data quality.
Our tech stack utilises some of the latest technologies, such as; gRPC, linkerd2, Postgres and Elasticsearch (to name just a few) all running on Kubernetes. We mainly code in Go and Java, and going forward we are focussing on building event sourced systems in Go. Experience in these areas will be a big plus.
At Attest you will
* Collaborate with the whole team to identify and create best-in-class products.
* Deliver features regularly, be comfortable with ambiguity, and push for code quality always.
* Participate in planning, stand-ups and retrospective meetings.
* Explore innovative ways to solve problems, and become an expert in high-availability systems.
* Design highly efficient architectures that scale around user demand.
Who you are
* A team player. Collaborative, self-motivated, creative, entrepreneurial & thoughtful style.
* Thrive with opportunities. Enjoy solving complex data & architecture problems efficiently.
* Love delivery. High quality code in an agile environment.
* Results-driven. With proactive use and exploration of new technologies and methodologies.
What youâll bring to Attest
* Expertise in building and maintaining event-driven architectures.
* Expertise in developing, testing & debugging highly-available distributed systems.
* Experience with databases: PostgreSQL / mySQL / DynamoDB / Redis.
* Experience with infrastructure technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Docker and/or Kubernetes.
What weâll offer in return
Our benefits and perks are designed with a focus on the wellbeing, engagement, and growth of our Attesters.
A competitive salary that fairly recognises your experience and potential;
High-quality Equipment â whether you prefer a MacBook or a Windows machine, weâll invest a sizeable amount to provide you with the right tools and set-up to help you do your best work;
**25 days paid holiday â **we care about our teamâs wellbeing, so we make sure you have time to fully switch off, rest, and recharge;
**Flexible working hours and working from home â ** whether you have parental responsibilities, just need some headspace, or have a parcel being delivered, weâll support you in making your work and personal life a manageable blend;
A generous Growth & Development budget to spend on the resources and tools that will help you grow in your role and achieve your career goals;
**10% adventure time **to invest in charitable activities, your growth and development, and/or side projects for Attest;
Weekly team lunch â a team who eats together, works hard together, and stays together, right? We order in lunch every week, but also acknowledge those who are less fortunate than ourselves: for every meal we order, our supplier donates a meal in support of the Akshaya Patra Foundation;
Fully-paid sick days â Mental health and physical health are treated equally at Attest. Whether youâve been knocked out with the flu, are having an operation, or need some time off to manage anxiety, stress or depression, for example, we encourage all our Attesters to rest up and come back when theyâre feeling more like themselves;
A values-led working environment that encourages putting people first, honesty, curiosity and leadership.
Is this role not quite the right fit for you? Or, have you not seen a suitable position available on our careers site?...Weâre always on the look-out for interesting, bright folk to join our team of Attesters. Connect with us to stay in touch, and weâll notify you when we have new opportunities.
About our people and culture
Attest is a place where youâre encouraged to bring every part of you needed to do your best work; every part of you needed to build strong, meaningful and long-lasting relationships with your fellow Attesters, our clients and partners.
We champion our people in their entirety. With our team of Attesters, we take a human-first approach, optimising for joy and adventure, ingrained in everything we do.
Weâre a friendly, collaborative team, and value putting people (our team, clients and consumers) first; honesty, curiosity, empowerment and leadership are core to our team working style. Decisions are made with careful and quick consideration at Attest, to support fast and efficient growth.
About Attest
We believe that great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. These companies create better, more useful products and services, which leads to happier consumers and ever-greater success.
Through our Consumer Growth Platform, everyone can now gain answers to their questions from audiences of over 100 million consumers across 80 markets.
Our clients use Attest to learn more about their target consumers, enter new markets, build new categories, validate decisions, develop better products and services, measure their brand, track competition, all with the goal of driving sustained growth across the business.
Our clients include Heineken, Walgreens Boots, Samsung, Fever-Tree, Discovery, Transferwise, and Nutmeg, among many others.
Weâre backed by leading VCs, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA) â the investors behind companies such as Uber, Salesforce, Box, and Tableau; Oxford Capital and Episode 1 (the investors behind LoveFilm, Zoopla, Betfair, Shazam, CarWow and many other greats); plus several high-powered amazing Angel investors.
Diversity statement
Diversity matters, and we celebrate it at Attest! Weâre building an inclusive place to work where everyone feels they belong. We see you and youâre welcome here. Attest doesnât discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic including race, religion or belief, gender or gender reassignment, age, sexual orientation, marital status, or disability.
We want to give everyone the opportunity to showcase their best selves during the interview process and beyond. Do let us know if there are any adjustments youâd like to make to ensure itâs more inclusive â weâre learning too, so weâre more than happy to adapt and accommodate where possible.
Headquartered in London, the FinTech capital of the world, Form3 are building the most exciting banking technology company on the planet. Our mission is simple: transform payments technology to enable the global financial community to move money in real-time.
CULTURE
Being a tech-first business, we place emphasis on thinking outside-the-box. By utilising the latest cloud-native technologies we find innovative solutions to problems that others would deem unsolvable. We live and breathe open-source, prioritise best-practice and automation while Slack is at the heart of everything we do.
We advocate a positive work-life balance and offer a super flexible, remote-friendly working environment. We donât mind whereabouts our Engineers are based as we are happy for our team to work from anywhere in the UK or EU, with most of them choosing to work remotely most of the time. However, we also have offices in London and Amsterdam, so should they ever wish to work from these, they are most welcome.
ENGINEERING TEAM
Our Engineering Team consists of over thirty-five Senior Engineers that are responsible for the end-to-end ownership of our platform, from architecture through to infrastructure. Individually they are all exceptional at what they do, but by working collaboratively within a team, consistently applying best-practice and automating absolutely everything they build world-class software for our customers.
There are a wide range of problems to tackle as an Engineer at Form3, from configuring nginx proxies to writing custom payment routing and handling logic. Itâs very much a âbest tool for the jobâ mentality here and our tech-stack is forever evolving. Our primary programming language is Go however we do have some services written using Java, Python and Ruby.
We are looking to speak with Senior Engineers that are EU citizens and based in the UK or Europe with;
Experience or interest in Go programming language
Understanding of distributed systems and cloud computing
Appreciate the **DevOps **culture and the value of automation
Place emphasis on code quality, BDD/TDD and software development best-practice
Are passionate about technology and enjoy working collaboratively within a team
Have a breadth of experience across a variety of programming languages
For more information on Form3 please visit our website or take a look at our company profiles on StackOverflow, GitHub and LinkedIn.
Perks & Benefits
⢠100% remote working
⢠30 days annual leave (plus Bank Holidays)
⢠Great tech-stack, challenging projects and an exceptional team of Senior Engineers to work alongside
⢠Regular paid trips to London to spend time with our awesome team
⢠Tech-first FinTech scale-up with limitless possibilities to progress your career
Go Developer Perkbox London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ75,000 a year
August 2019
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About You
What we really need:-
Proven track record delivering Golang projects
Docker
Kubernetes
AWS
Git
Microservices and REST based HTTP/2 architectures
MySQL, Postgres, DynamoDB/MongoDB
Unit, functional and E2E testing (PHPunit)
Continuous integration/deployment
A passion for writing clean, well documented and testable code
Agile and Scrum methodology
Self-driven, quality controlled
Excellent communication and people skills
What would be nice to have:-
React.js/Node.js
GraphQL
Experience using RabbitMQ at scale
A track record using Go in Open Source projects
How we do
A bit like Spotify we work in Squads (small super-focused cross functional teams) who work on their own product with a mix of developers, product managers, UX, QAs and DevOps. Each squad has a high degree of autonomy and is more or less self-managing...goodbye sign-off processes, risk assessments and red tape. If you want to make a splash and take ownership over the work you do youâve come to the right place.
Hopefully you would agree it would be a bit silly to have an employee perks company called Perkbox and not offer our own team amazing perks! The hint is in the name. You of course get all the perks we offer to our customers. We also do regular team lunches, out of office days and team building nights. We also have a generous learning budget, pension, and a huge blow out all-hands party twice per year.
Backend Developer Yoti London, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ70,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
The Vision
Someone who understands that âwhat you buildâ is just as important as âhow you build itâ. Someone who wants to do more than just code. We want dreamers, creators, someone who likes to discuss ideas and push the boundaries of technology.
Who we are
Yoti is a global company whose aim is to be the worldâs trusted identity system. We have seriously ambitious goals to become the world's most secure and data sensitive company. Our passionate team works to improve the way people share their personal information. Innovative products like the Yoti mobile app help people to prove who they are online and in person.
We are creating a new concept. Something that has never been done before, Why not be part of something truly innovative and creative. Yoti is here to fight against fraud and build a secure identity system for individuals and businesses. We are a company who are pushing the boundaries of technology for a safer world.
Yoti is changing the way people prove their identity. Our products are built from the ground up to respect customers' privacy and put you in control. We will never sell on customer data - we couldnât even if we wanted to. Designing products that are simple to use and easy to understand in the world of privacy, security and personal data is a tough challenge.
More about this Team and Project
The SDK team produces the open source tools that allow developers to integrate with the Yoti technology. We are the ones who really define the Yoti integration experience and we support 7 popular languages (Node, Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, C# and Go) plus 4 CMS plugins (Drupal 7, Drupal 8, Wordpress and Joomla).
As a Polyglot Developer, you will participate to the technical design and implementation of the new SDK features and you will make sure that our examples projects are always working and easy to understand.
You will also work closely with designers and product managers to make sure that our documentation is understandable and up to date. You will be able to have an impact from day one, but we also care about you and invest in your learning.
Your experience
2 or more of our supported languages (at least 3 years of experience with one of them).
API concepts.
REST.
Continuous integration/delivery.
Git.
Relational databases.
Dependency management systems, ideally with package release experience.
It would be great if you have some experience in the following:
Docker.
Concourse.
Microservices.
We donât want people to stagnate, we donât want people to just âget byâ, we offer a magnitude of tools so you continue to learn, challenge yourself, evolve as a techie and keep you constantly engaged. We even have a Yoti Labs for the people who like to play with new tools, experiment and want to build something out of this world!
We are based in Central London, by Bank, 5 minutes walk away from London Bridge and Liverpool Street Stations. We are surrounded by a bunch of restaurants, enough to try a new lunch menu every day for a good few months!
This is a fantastic opportunity to get involved with a company doing crazy-complex projects, in a fun and exciting environment, where creativity is rewarded! You will also be working on something which millions of people could well be using daily! This kind of opportunity does not come round often so what are you waiting for, apply today and build something amazing tomorrow!
Pre-employment checks
If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:
We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.
Please contact HR@Yoti.com to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.
Talent Pool
If we consider that you might be suitable for other roles in the future, we will keep your details so we can contact you about these other roles. If you do not want us to keep your details for this purpose, please e-mail HR@yoti.com or let us know at any stage of the recruitment process. For more information please read our applicant privacy notice
Senior Software Engineer uSwitch London, United Kingdom ÂŁ60,000 to ÂŁ75,000 a year
October 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
uSwitchâs purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with intuitive and accessible applications that genuinely improve peopleâs lives. Saving a few hundred pounds a year on bills makes a fundamental difference to vulnerable people who sometimes have to choose between paying for utilities or groceries.
Our platforms serve millions of users a month, process thousands of comparisons a day, and drive hundreds of complex integrations with vastly different partners. Weâre a tech-driven business that focuses on agile delivery and cross functional product teams.
We are creating the next generation of comparison platforms, and as we scale we are looking for passionate, empathetic engineers to build highly performant, accessible, and beautiful consumer experiences to facilitate switching and comparisons on the web.
What you might be working on:
Building the future of the micro front-ends at uSwitch leveraging some of our packages such koa-core, ustyle, and frameworks like Inferno, Redux and GraphQL
Delivering integrated and accessible full checkout journeys for additional uSwitch products like Credit Cards and Broadband
Working with multiple other teams to help drive consumer personalisation and wider uSwitch initiatives; working in Clojure, Go, Elixir and deploying to Kubernetes
Building performance tooling to continuously improve our TTFB across the site, and optimising for a PWA experience with offline caching and push notifications
Creating beautiful dashboard experiences for our B2B products using D3.js and React
We pride ourselves in delivering accessible, performant, and functional experiences to the consumer, hopefully you do too.
The things we look for in you:
You want to grow within your career and are looking for a place that lets you have immediate, meaningful impact - we deploy up to 150 times a day
Care about the product life cycle and the lifetime value of the customer - without our customers we wouldnât have a business
Passionate about accessibility, performance, UX, and A/B testing
Pragmatic and deliver thoughtful and awesome solutions to solve business problems
Have had experience or want to have experience working in diverse, cross functional agile teams - we value people that want to push themselves into unknown territories
Want to be involved in the larger engineering community, and contribute back to that community through open source projects and conferences
Have a deep understanding of web applications and the surrounding stacks
We arenât wedded to languages, but you should know how an application works for a customer :)
Perks & Benefits
We want to give you a great work environment; contribute back to both your personal and professional development; and give you great benefits to make your time at uSwitch even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:
A competitive salary and bonus package
A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
The latest equipment - be it a Linux or Apple or Windows machine
Free breakfast, healthy snacks, coffee and soft drinks
Paid parental leave for those key moments in your life
We have lots of other great benefits within the business, these are just a few of them
Health insurance
Moving day off, birthday day off, charitable day off
In office gym and pilates + yoga classes
Flexi holiday policy
Bike to work scheme
Season ticket loans for those long commutes
Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
1 month full paid paternity leave to spend more time with the kids
We also want to help you with your life events, so offer interest free loans for special moments in your life like moving home, buying your first home and your wedding
Interview Process
Our application process is outlined here - so if youâre interested in reading about it in more detail go check it out!
Our interview process comprises of 3 steps, after which we will give you an offer. We will always give you feedback along the way as we value it within the company just as much as you will when you are interviewing :)
Phone interview - this is approximately 30 minutes to have a relaxed chat with you and get to know you a bit better; it will also give you an opportunity to interview us :)
Coding test - if the phone interview is positive weâll get you to do a small test in your own time that you will submit back to us. Hopefully itâll be great fun!
Final interview - this will be a 2 part interview where we extend the coding test in office with two of our engineers, and then weâll spend another hour having a more in depth chat with you
Golang Engineer Beamery London, United Kingdom ÂŁ55,000 to ÂŁ75,000 a year
August 2018
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are looking for a Golang engineer to join our core backend API team.
You will be the sort of person that has worked at several companies before but wants to join an innovative culture implementing bleeding edge technology at a global scale.
Likely having cut your teeth on other languages, you will have commercial experience using Golang for general systems programming and microservice architectures.
What skills youâll bring
- Expertise in Golang and proficiency in other languages (Preferably C/C++,NodeJs, Python).
- Commercial experience with REST, RPC and message exchange protocols.
- Experience with frameworks such as: Gin, Gorilla, Dep, Ginkgo
- You actively contribute to open source Golang communities.
- Working knowledge in Kubernetes, Rancher or Docker swarm.
- Ability to write clean and effective Godoc comments
- Knowledge around message queuing and distributed tasking (SMS,ZeroQ, RabbitMQ etc)
What responsibilities you'll have
- Ability to perform complex work that is a dependent requirement of feature teams to deliver.
- Mindfulness of scaling architecture to meet global demand.
- Enthusiasm around Golang and a keen desire to evangelise the language and principles behind it.
- A sense of ownership across platforms and environments.
Backend Go Developer Geckoboard London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ61,000 a year
August 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
At Geckoboard we help businesses use their data to align their teams on the metrics that matter most to them. Weâve been busy reimagining the way our customers get their data in Geckoboard and have a lot of interesting and creative work to do to shape their experiences. Right now, weâre looking for curious problem solvers to help us on this journey.
What are we working on?
We've completely rebuilt how data gets into Geckoboard from third-party APIs, thanks to a query planner that's written entirely in Go. Our query planner takes in the metrics that a customer would like to track, and produces a plan for how to fetch and transform those metrics from a third-party JSON API such as Zendesk, Intercom, Google Analytics, etc.
Weâre now working on extending this platform and building various microservices for tracking our customers' rate limits and scheduling metric refreshes in the most efficient way possible. Weâre also creating a caching engine that ensures we don't waste precious API calls on data that we know hasn't changed since last time.
The team are also in the middle of splitting up our existing REST APIs into gRPC microservices with segregated data stores. Which is a huge opportunity for us to rethink some of the fundamental assumptions about Geckoboard's data model and how we can re-architect our systems for greater reliability and to enable us to ship with more confidence.
We donât expect youâll have worked on all of these kinds of projects before, but if they take your fancy and youâre excited about working on distributed systems and database technologies at scale, weâd love to hear from you.
As one of our Backend Go Developers:
Youâll be writing in Golang on a day-to-day basis.
You will help architect, design, and build Geckoboardâs data pipeline.
Youâll maintain and optimise our existing infrastructure and services.
You will get involved in the prioritising and evaluation of our work.
Youâll pair with team members and get involved in code reviews.
Joining us in our London office, youâll be working alongside a growing team of empowered engineers, with a focus on building a high quality product our customers love, work life balance and personal development.
Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build live TV Dashboards that focus teams on what matters. We take the complexity out of connecting data and make it simple for anyone to understand key metrics at a glance. We have pre-built integrations with 60+ tools including Google Analytics, Salesforce, Zendesk, Intercom and Google Sheets and our customers include Marketo, Slack, and Skyscanner.
In our mission to make data useful, our growing team of 40+ is headquartered in London and span across eight time zones - from Mumbai to London, San Francisco to Hawaii and more. We're always looking for people with diverse backgrounds who bring unique perspectives and skills to join our team and in return we constantly strive to ensure that we offer the most encouraging, inclusive, and efficient environment possible.
We don't just pay lip service to work-life balance, we actively and strongly encourage it. Flexible working hours and the ability to regularly work from home lets you work in a way that fits you and your family. We see our contractual obligation to offer 25 days of paid holiday as a minimum for everyone in the organisation, not a limit.
We actively contribute to professional development, courses, conferences, and books. Our Engineering & Product team also run fortnightly "Innovation Wednesdays", where everyone has complete freedom to work on anything that interests them, from contributing to open source, to learning a new skill, or improving our internal tools and processes.
Backend Engineer Cuvva London, United Kingdom ÂŁ75,000 to ÂŁ90,000 a year
August 2021
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Cuvva
Cuvva is making car insurance radically better.
Weâre creating truly flexible products that meet peopleâs real needs. Using lightning-fast technology to unlock better experiences and fairer prices for our customers, Cuvva is building the future of insurance every day.
Cuvva was the first UK company to sell hourly insurance through an app. Since then weâve sold over 3 million policies and supported over 450,000 customers. Weâre a world-class team of over 100 people, passionate about solving our customersâ problems. Join us.
Why work for Cuvva?
We donât cut corners. We strive to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
We are customer centric and everyone in every area of the businessâincluding our CEO & Founder Freddyâis expected to spend a few hours a month on customer support. This is so we all fully understand customer needs and how the app works! Hereâs a blog post on our âCops Clubâ.
Weâve nurtured an awesome team culture. We always speak up when we have an idea - but also know when to let go and get behind something else.
And weâre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things.
Weâre building a diverse team from different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. Everyone is given a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donât love insurance, trust us, youâll love what weâre building.
About the role
Youâll work in one of our cross-functional product squads, helping the team achieve their goals - whether thatâs building a new service in our backend platform, creating a new version of an existing API to deliver a new feature, or creating a CLI tool to automate something.
We work in a highly collaborative fashion, and maintain an open and transparent work environment. Engineers at Cuvva donât just write code or implement against a spec. Youâll be expected and encouraged to take part in the entire product development process from problem-discovery to solution design, to implementation and rollout.
Each product squad autonomously owns an area of the Cuvva product. Squads are made up of engineers from multiple disciplines (backend, web, iOS, Android), product and content designers, and a product manager. Engineers at Cuvva come from a variety of backgrounds and have different but complementary skill sets. We donât require a computer science degree - many of us are self-taught.
Our approach
We value consistently-written, simple, resilient systems. Our backend is made up of many standalone services with a JSON-based RPC interface. We aim to create a client-agnostic API design suitable for a variety of clients (mobile apps, website, internal tooling, 3rd parties). Because weâre a regulated financial company, we have interesting and rigorous requirements to meet with regards to data security and auditability.
Most systems are written in Go (some older ones are Javascript), backed by either Postgres or Mongo, and are hosted in a container environment. We heavily lean on AWS tooling such as S3, Lambda, and SQS, and we occasionally build integrations with more âlegacyâ 3rd party systems in the insurance industry.
You can find out more about our backend systems here:
Our libraries and Go tooling is open sourced on GitHub
âShowing off our K-sortable IDsâ our blog
âHow we analyse and test new pricing modelsâ our blog
âHow we test and roll out new product featuresâ our blog
You'll do great here if you:
⢠Have genuine interest and curiosity about the Cuvva product, and consumer insurance in general
⢠Enjoy working as a team to solve problems collaboratively
⢠Have around 5 years of experience building rock-solid backend systems and APIs
⢠Have a track record of shipping great quality code with real customer impact
⢠Be comfortable and productive working with Go
â˘Â We donât require commercial Go experience but you would be expected to have a basic understanding and a willingness to learn
⢠Having a background with at least one statically-typed language is a good sign
â˘Â Know your way around the major AWS services (or similar cloud services), and have an enthusiasm for cloud services in general
â˘Â Be comfortable working with containers (e.g. Docker, K8S, ECR, container based CI platforms)
Perks & Benefits
Benefits
As well as a competitive salary (ÂŁ75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
⢠Brand new MacBook đť
⢠33 days holiday (inc public holidaysđ)
⢠Flexible working
⢠Wellbeing, personal development and work from home budgets
⢠Yearly increases to budgets and holiday allowances
⢠Generous parental leave policy
⢠One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus mental health coaches, giving you a safe space to talk đ§
⢠Access to Lifeworks - our mental health tool and employee assistance programme
⢠Mates rates on your car insurance
⢠Salary sacrifice schemes for electric bike hire and electric car lease
⢠Cycle to work scheme đ˛
⢠Season ticket loans đ
⢠A volunteer day
⢠Office library full of great books đ
⢠Great coffee machine in the office âď¸
⢠Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge (we do team drinks every Thursday)
⢠Monthly team outings or remote events (so far weâve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy nights) đ¤