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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 don’t 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. It’s very much a “best tool for the job” 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
Senior Engineer Bread New York City, United States $100,000 to $175,000 a year
July 2019
6 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We have enormous and engaging technical challenges. We are designing an API that can drop easily into any one of dozens of ecommerce platforms, proprietary and off-the-shelf, hosted and on-site. We need to verify online identity and predict fraud while providing a beautiful and frictionless consumer experience, and mine user and financial information to approve and price credit, all in real time. And we are using technology to explore new approaches to consumer credit marketplaces that have never been attempted before.
We are looking to hire a senior engineer to join the current technology team in continuing to build out our core platform and product. This senior engineer will:
be responsible for leading design and implementation of new features and iterations of our core platform
continue to develop our core infrastructure for Bread’s scalable and reliable services
deliver new working code every two weeks in a fast-paced, code-focused agile development environment
work with the rest of the engineering team to deliver new functionality to face merchants, consumers, investors, and internal users
design new iterations of our merchant integration APIs
Requirements
Expert knowledge of server-side languages and data stores (our system is built with Go/Golang and PostgreSQL, but we’re also happy to speak with those that have strong backend experience with other languages, including JVM languages like Java or Scala; Python; or C++)
Experience with message-based, loosely coupled architectures (we use RabbitMQ and Redis)
Experience building scalable, reliable distributed systems
Experience developing systems intended for cloud deployments (we use AWS)
A passion for engineering and technology
Preferred
Knowledge of financial products
Strong front-end skills in JavaScript, using a framework like Angular (we use React)
Experience with Go/PostgreSQL/Rabbit/Redis
Knowledge of e-commerce platforms, like Magento, Shopify, Demandware, or others
HousingAnywhere.com is the biggest global booking platform for mid-term rental accommodation in the world. Being a peer-to-peer marketplace, we create an experience that serves both sides of the rental accommodation market and creates a direct connection between tenants and landlords. HousingAnywhere.com is active in 50+ countries and 400+ cities. We are partners with 160+ universities worldwide and currently target the international students and young professionals market. We are expanding to other audiences as well.
In 2017, we were awarded 4th most innovative company in the Netherlands and the 1st most innovative company in Rotterdam by the Dutch Chamber of Commerce.
In 2018, we have been honored by being the fastest growing propTech company in the Netherlands as part of the Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte.
The team
Our engineering team consists of a group of 30 people (product leads, engineering leads, architects, product owners, front-end engineers, back-end engineers, QA engineers and UX/UI designers), all passionate about our expertise.
Within the engineering team, we are organized in multiple cross-functional teams. By applying for this role, you will have the chance to become part of the Payments team.
We, the Payments team, are responsible for all payments flows of our platform. This means that we take ownership of the following:
Payments and payouts: internal payments system that handles receiving and sending out the money; integrations with payment gateways and other tools
Commission: calculation and handling commission HousingAnywhere takes for providing service
Invoicing
Users payment details: various payment and payout methods and overviews
New awesome features such as rent collection service, payment requests etc
Our mission as a team is to provide a seamless payment experience for landlords collecting rent through the platform, tenants paying that rent as well as for our finances team overseeing the process.
About your role and impact in the payments team
HousingAnywhere has entered a scale-up phase in which we have seen impressive growth in terms of bookings and liquidity in the marketplace. This growth has brought us many technical challenges. On one end of the stack we build features and improvements to optimize conversions, on the other end we are making our infrastructure more resilient for future growth.
Your role in the team is to contribute to solving these challenges by implementing solutions and assisting our team so that our innovative technology can support future business needs.
As a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead we expect you to mentor our less senior team members, collaborate with other team leads to align dependencies and to work closely with our Product Owner (PO) to make sure the team achieves its goals and delivers value to the business.
We also expect you to challenge our choices and practices by bringing your opinion in the mix, because only by rethinking our best practices we can really evolve as persons and as a company.
Some of your responsibilities will be:
Work together with our PO to set the quarterly team goals and make sure the team delivers them
Collaborate with the architects and the other team leads to align dependencies between teams and make sure common architectural and best practices are followed
Mentor the team members
Providing a seamless experience for tenants and advertisers when dealing with all money flows in the platform
Working together with the Finances team to develop tools that make their work auditing, processing and validating payouts easier and more reliable
Developing fault tolerant finances microservices
Monitoring and improving the performance the APIs
Managing our services in Kubernetes cluster and through CI/CD
Our stack
In frontend we are React lovers. We use TypeScript, CSS-in-JS, Redux and all tools related to this stack. Our backend is powered by Golang backed with a Postgres database and NSQ messaging. Our main infrastructure is in Google Cloud Platform.
Sounds like a match? Apply and become part of our team!
What we are looking for in a Team Lead & Senior Engineer:
A product-oriented person: you have the internal and final users in mind
You take responsibility for the quality of your work, you like test automation and you are interested in TDD best practices
You're a real team player. You understand your colleagues may have different opinions and you consider them to make our product better
Someone who is pragmatic
Ability to find a clean and simple solution that could be easily adapted and scaled as the business evolves
Leadership capabilities
Interest in new technologies
You understand that maintainable code is simple code that makes intentions explicit
Experience needed:
Excellent skills in one of Javascript, Golang, C++ or any other of the main languages
An educational degree in the field of Computer Science or similar is preferable, although passionate career changers are also welcome
Solid understanding of web user interface design and web development
Have 7 years of experience in web development. If you think you can do the job with fewer years experience, don’t hesitate to apply as well
Experience in leadership positions
Experience with payment systems is a plus
Basic understanding of how to prepare a good (veggie) burger
Practical Info!
Full-time position (40 hours a week).
You will work from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Salary will match your experience.
Starting: ASAP.
Perks & Benefits
What we offer:
Friday drinks
Being part of a company that is scaling up with millions of monthly visits, and thousands of paying customers
A career ladder: a structured way to take control of your career and your growth within HousingAnywhere
Competitive salary
Budget for laptop and for training
The possibility to have a real impact on the way people pay through the product
Fun and international environment at the heart of Rotterdam. Our team consists of over 90+ people, with 25+ different nationalities.
Interview Process
1- Non-technical interview with an engineering team lead
2- technical assessment/contribution
3- Technical interview with 2 engineers
4- Final interview with VP of Engineering + a Product Owner
Senior Software Engineer Luno London, United Kingdom £80,000 to £100,000 a year
October 2018
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Luno is a leading global cryptocurrency company operating across more than 40 countries and with offices in London, Singapore and Cape Town. We’re a profitable, growing company with over 2 million customers, and are backed by some of the top tech investors in the world.
Our products and services make it safe and easy for people and businesses to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Our vision is to upgrade the world to a better financial system.
To the moon! 🚀
Your Mission
We have multiple openings for senior software engineers in our brand new London office. These are in a range of teams including fraud, platform, payments, shield, onboarding, and crypto-security. With over 40 engineers based in our Cape Town office, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated experienced developers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our currency exchange, fraud, payments and compliance pods.
As a small company operating on a global scale, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. We make decisions based on facts, not fiction. Many of the problems we’re solving result in genuinely trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on StackOverflow; so we’re looking for an experienced engineer that thrives on working in a complex domain.
We use Go, microservices architecture (gRPC) and AWS, but if you come from a Java, Python or other relevant language we’ll help you get up to speed with our comprehensive engineering onboarding program.
How we work
We succeed as a team. Our teams are split into pods, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of our product. Any engineer is able to deploy to production, and we deploy multiple times each day. Your pod will include a product owner, back end engineers, Android and iOS developers, and web developers who each bring a unique perspective to the problem you’re all solving.
A typical day
Join the pod’s daily standup to share progress and remove blockers
Collaborate with other engineers on the design of a new payment integration to launch to a new market
Write clean, well-tested code that directly affects users, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem
Grab lunch with the company (we provide lunch Monday - Thursday)
Coach a team member by giving feedback on their pull-request
What’s in it for you
This is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about cryptocurrencies, blockchain, emerging and developed markets, and scaling a global business. We provide great benefits and the autonomy to conceive and execute your own projects. Best of all you get to work with a diverse team of talented, ambitious and friendly people on something that will truly revolutionise the world.
As a “Newnaut” we’ll fly you to Cape Town to meet the wider team, and go through our comprehensive onboarding program. We expect you to have a passion for blockchain and cryptocurrencies but we understand that this is a new industry so we’ll help you learn about how the blockchain works and understand all aspects of our business.
What you’ll need
Building a new financial system for the world requires a special breed of people working together with unusual skill, focus and determination. “Moontality” represents the ten core principles that underpin everything we do, setting us apart from the rest.
As an experienced lead-level or senior engineer, you’ll have:
A solid foundation in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design
Extensive programming experience in an object-oriented language. We use Go but we welcome applicants who have strong experience in other languages like Java, Scala or C++, etc.
Proven experience of building, shipping and supporting a product
An interest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin
Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see but we appreciate that great software engineers have diverse backgrounds.
Hack Capital is growing faster than ever and we’re facing interesting challenges to solve during this exciting time. As a result, we're looking for accomplished Senior Software Engineers interested in tackling a wide variety of new projects. We’re looking for engineers with a solid understanding of how all parts of the system work in order to build first-rate products and technology.
About the Services Team:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Services team, you will work with a highly-motivated team of product managers, designers and peers to take on on a variety of quickly changing new products, features, and technologies. We’re a small close-knit team acting as a mini-startup with an environment for you to learn quickly while also mentoring less experienced developers. On our team, you will have the opportunity not only to enhance but to make a big impact on the product and the technology.
Requirements:
- Multiple years of full stack experience designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end
- Experience building robust APIs in Node.js / Express.js or professional experience in one of the following backend languages: Golang, Ruby, Python.
- Strong proficiency in React, Vue.js or both
- In-depth knowledge of SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience with Docker
- Experience mentoring and leading less experienced engineers
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
- Pluses: Experience with Redis and ElasticSearch
What We Offer:
- A fun office vibe with ambitious and high-performing peers to work alongside with on challenging new projects
- Exposure to a variety of technologies on a diverse range of projects
- Tons of autonomy and the opportunity to make a big impact on our business
- We are a thriving tech startup which gives us the freedom to do what is best for the benefit of the company and our employees
Why we love working here:
- In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an employer-paid comprehensive benefits plan including an Extended Health Care with Dental/Vision Care, Life Insurance, and AD&D
- We provide a flexible work schedule and environment
- We offer an Employee Stock Option Plan
- We have a flexible vacation policy - We foster a healthy work/life balance and pride ourselves on being flexible
- We provide regularly catered lunches and healthy snacks
- We have a great location in Gastown – Enjoy the sea views!
- We do frequent team events and outings - Join the fun!
I’m In!
If this role sounds interesting, please send us your resume and feel free to include links like your GitHub or non-public code that will help us understand your background. Thanks!
Senior Software Engineer CTO.ai Vancouver, Canada $85,000 to $120,000 a year
October 2018
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
CTO.ai is growing faster than ever and we’re facing interesting challenges to solve during this exciting time. As a result, we're looking for accomplished Senior Software Engineers interested in tackling a wide variety of new projects. We’re looking for engineers with a solid understanding of how all parts of the system work in order to build first-rate products and technology.
About the Services Team:
As a Senior Software Engineer on the Services team, you will work with a highly-motivated team of product managers, designers and peers to take on on a variety of quickly changing new products, features, and technologies. We’re a small close-knit team acting as a mini-startup with an environment for you to learn quickly while also mentoring less experienced developers. On our team, you will have the opportunity not only to enhance but to make a big impact on the product and the technology.
Requirements:
- Multiple years of full stack experience designing and building scalable applications from end-to-end
- Experience building robust APIs in Node.js / Express.js or professional experience in one of the following backend languages: Golang, Ruby, Python.
- Strong proficiency in React, Vue.js or both
- In-depth knowledge of SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Experience with Docker
- Experience mentoring and leading less experienced engineers
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Analytical mind with a problem-solving aptitude
- Pluses: Experience with Redis and ElasticSearch
What We Offer:
- A fun office vibe with ambitious and high-performing peers to work alongside with on challenging new projects
- Exposure to a variety of technologies on a diverse range of projects
- Tons of autonomy and the opportunity to make a big impact on our business
- We are a thriving tech startup which gives us the freedom to do what is best for the benefit of the company and our employees
Why we love working here:
- In addition to competitive salaries, we offer an employer-paid comprehensive benefits plan including an Extended Health Care with Dental/Vision Care, Life Insurance, and AD&D
- We provide a flexible work schedule and environment
- We offer an Employee Stock Option Plan
- We have a flexible vacation policy - We foster a healthy work/life balance and pride ourselves on being flexible
- We provide regularly catered lunches and healthy snacks
- We have a great location in Gastown – Enjoy the sea views!
- We do frequent team events and outings - Join the fun!
I’m In!
If this role sounds interesting, please send us your resume and feel free to include links like your GitHub or non-public code that will help us understand your background. Thanks!
Systems Software Engineer BitMED Austin, United States $114,000 to $156,000 a year
October 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Here at BitMED we appreciate transparency and creativity. So, let’s try something new. We would like to give you the opportunity to learn more about this role the same way we would get to know you. An application!
We’ll go first…
Why is this position crucial to BitMED?
Our lean team is ready to grow! We are rapidly onboarding 22M members to our platform and that number is growing every day. Our Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for defining and implementing our software standards as they integrate between frontend, backend, data storage, infrastructure and other core system components. By joining our small team, they will be an integral contributor in developing our engineering culture. This person will be a key enabler for lean integration, faster innovation, rapid development, streamlined communication and improved collaboration.
Why does this person want to work at BitMED?
They are excited about bringing blockchain technology to the healthcare community at scale. Joining BitMED is a strategic and advantageous career move for them as they will play a crucial role as a contributor to bringing a global, no-cost healthcare solution to market. They visualize the impact they’ll have in this role and are prepared to offer their expertise towards building a successful new platform that will change the way the world views healthcare.
What will this person do on a day-to-day basis?
The Systems Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and implementing software for a variety of scalable, reliable, and secure distributed computing systems (e.g. blockchain). They will design, implement, and debug core components of internal distributed computing services. They will research and implement key technologies (e.g. blockchain), architectures, and standards. They will work with other engineering teams to ensure that services meet scalability, availability, security, and performance goals.
What is this person expected to accomplish within their first 90 days?
This person will assess the status of our current system software and build upon them. They will work with various members of the engineering team to define and implement API standards. During their first 90 days, our Systems Software Engineer will design and implement Protocol APIs for BitMED’s core services and work with various internal and external technical teams on the adoption. By the end of their first 90 days, we expect this person to draft the Protocol API documentation geared towards open-sourcing the API.
What qualities should this person have?
BitMED is looking for a person with the willingness to learn and the ability to contribute right off the bat. They can balance timeliness and business priorities with technical feasibility. They are adamant about solving problems and are a reliable resource for insight and assessment of technical issues. They are able to speak openly and humbly about their failures and mistakes, clearly articulating what happened and how it was addressed. They are passionate about learning, executing and leading by example. They are an open source enthusiast and a best in class developer with a desire to gain knowledge in an emerging market. They are able to think through and anticipate how hackers and others may attempt to subvert or misuse applications.
What experience should this person have?
5+ years of overall developer experience
2+ years measuring, analyzing, and optimizing performance
2+ years developing distributed applications and API integration
2+ years developing applications using cloud-based platforms and microservices
Strong understanding of concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
Knowledge of concurrency control, data structures, algorithms, distributed system architectures and networking
What technical skills MUST this person have?
1+ years of experience with blockchain security technologies and cryptography knowledge
Strong systems programming skills
Experience with all aspects of software development from architecture to deployment and maintenance
Familiarity with distributed storage systems (HDFS, Amazon S3)
Fluency in Go (golang) C/C++, Python, shell scripting
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Hands-on developer-level understanding of blockchain technologies including smart contracts, blockchain applications or proof-of-concepts (POCs) using Hyperledger, Ethereum Solidity or other proprietary languages and APIs
Proven ability to translate requirements from architects and product managers into functional code.
Knowledge of database technologies including SQL/NoSQL
What skills would we like this person to have?
Strong passion for technology and applying it to business solutions
Working understanding of blockchain technologies, cryptocurrency, and financial software
Experience running a large-scale production system
Senior Software Engineer OLX Group Berlin, Germany €65,000 to €90,000 a year
October 2018
5 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We are looking for Senior Software Engineer to join our office in Berlin. We’re a team of 5,000 ambitious, curious people building marketplace platforms that make it super easy for anyone to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economies.
What you will be doing:
• Working in a small, cross-functional team of about 5-7 people (product, data engineering, front-end, back-end, DevOps)
• Have impact on the direction of the product, not just the technology side (a sense of ownership is not only allowed, but expected)
• You’ll be writing maintainable, testable and performant code in a Continuous Integration Environment
• Research, suggest and implement new solutions to our problem domain
• Thinking about and acting on data management solutions
• How to improve the architecture and split the different domains into microservices
Who we’re looking for:
• Has senior-level experience with any state of the art back-end technology. Current tech stack includes Go, Python, Node and JVM — if you’re the candidate for us, you will pick up these technologies quickly, or convince us we should be using something else.
• Worked in Agile environment (Kanban, Scrum or XP)
• Knows PHP on at least average level
• Was exposed to TDD or BDD
• Takes ownership and can work independently
• Who worked in high-traffic, high-volume, cloud applications
• Sees the differences between SQL and noSQL databases
What we’ll give you:
• Contributing to the global OLX Group
• International career and travel opportunities
• Work with an international team of top engineers learning from one another
• A budget for conference and education
• Competitive salary and great benefits
• Home Office possibilities
• Company Mobile phone
• Any tool you might need MacBook Pro, Notebook, PC (selection of Dells and Thinkpad machine)
• Free coffee, snacks, and drinks
• Great office location around the corner from Berlin Hauptbahnhof
What you need to know about us:
• OLX is the world’s leading classifieds platform in high-growth markets. It’s available in more than 35 countries and in over 50 languages. The platform makes it so easy to connect people to buy, sell or exchange used goods and services.
• OLX is part of the OLX Group, a global product and tech company with 17 brands, +40 countries, +5000 people and one mindset.
• Our mission is to make it super easy for people to buy and sell almost anything, boosting local economy
• We are proud to be different, and we work differently too. We combine the spirit and agility of a start-up with the maturity that comes from being part of a 100 year-old company.
• We are curious, ambitious and allergic to corporate interference. We improvise, experiment and push each other further, embracing uncertainty and driving change.
If you’d like to learn more about the OLX Group take a look at the other parts of our website or reach out to Sebastian. And remember, we are an equal opportunities employer.
HotelTonight makes it remarkably easy to book great hotels at amazing rates on your mobile device for tonight, tomorrow and beyond. Our goal is to be the premier and most loved way to book a place to stay and we’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help do just that.
We’re seeking teammates who want to set the standard, question the status quo, and want to keep learning. Part of the greater Product Development team, the Core Services team focuses on the back-end services and infrastructure that support iOS and Android features of the consumer facing app. We are a team of builders; we like to solve problems, take action, and work collaboratively with others to get stuff done.
This is a great opportunity for an engineer who is passionate about the product, thinks of the users, and wants to utilize the latest technologies to deliver industry-changing products. HotelTonight now allows users to book a hotel up to 100 days in advance - an exciting expansion for many reasons, but it’s also a significant change to our backend infrastructure. This means there are some big, challenging projects ahead for you and the rest of the Platform team to tackle.
You’ll have an immediate impact, ensuring that our APIs, infrastructure, and internal tools create a world class user experience and help HotelTonight on its mission to become the only hotel booking app you need on your phone.
Within 1 month, you will
Familiarize yourself with our development workflow, tooling and tech stack
Learn about the upcoming initiatives and projects you’ll be owning
Release bug fixes and feature improvements to our production environment
Actively participate in our code review process
Within 3 months, you will
Collaborate with other engineers, product managers, designers, and domain experts to iterate on and improve core business logic and user-facing features
Develop, modify, and maintain our e-commerce platform while optimizing for speed, user experience, and continued 99.99% availability
Support critical production systems as part of our on-call rotation
Leverage instrumentation to identify and diagnose performance bottlenecks
Own the delivery and deployment of the services you build into our containerized production cluster
Within 12 months you'll do
Lead end-to-end development of mission-critical features
Work on managing and scaling the infrastructure that enables our services to process millions of requests per day
Evaluate and experiment with new technologies and techniques that can be added to our tech stack to solve the trickiest of problems
Work alongside other engineers to define the future of HotelTonight's core services
Why this opportunity is cool
You’ll be able to directly contribute to and shape the systems that power HotelTonight’s marketplace
You’ll work alongside and be exposed to senior leaders across the company; an opportunity to learn and grow from those around you
You’ll work with other teams across the company on a wide range of projects, ranging from end-user-facing features to behind-the-scenes improvements to our bookings, payments, and notifications platforms
You’ll help implement and refine best practices for deploying, monitoring, alerting, and performance testing critical services
What you will need to be successful in this role
Extensive experience in software development working as a Backend Engineer
Strong expertise in Ruby and RSpec (or similar) and an interest in other languages (e.g. Golang, Elixir)
Working knowledge of relational databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL
Familiarity with any of the following is a plus: AWS, Ansible, Docker, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Packer, RabbitMQ (or other queueing systems), Terraform, Redis
Experience scaling and maintaining high-traffic, service-oriented production systems
Ability to tackle broad, challenging problems in an analytical, pragmatic way
Empathy for users, teammates, and other stakeholders
Love working as part of a team and continuously strive for self-improvement
Perks & Benefits
An official Best Places to Work (2 years running!)
The opportunity to define mobile commerce and change the way people book travel
A people-focused organization dedicated to making sure you're challenged, learning, growing, and recognized for all the great work you do
The camaraderie of a driven, agile team that is building something disruptive
Excellent health, dental, vision and 401k plans, and stock options too
Fun stuff - quarterly travel stipend, flexible time off, subsidized cell phone plans and fitness memberships, and the opportunity to spin the HT Roulette wheel to win a spontaneous weekend getaway!
Improbable is dedicated to building powerful technology designed to help solve previously impossible problems and enable the creation of new realities. In gaming and entertainment, Improbable unlocks truly next-generation gameplay through virtual worlds of unprecedented scale, persistence and richness. In other industries, we hope to help answer critical questions through simulations that could lead to a better functioning world.
Our platform, SpatialOS, lets developers transcend the limits of regular computation, allowing swarms of servers running in the cloud to cooperate in order to simulate worlds far larger and more complex than any single server could.
We are a British technology company proudly building a diverse workforce, driven by a shared desire to improve and achieve extraordinary things. We’re crafting technology for the future and fostering a problem-solving culture that embraces innovation through iteration and experimentation.
Your Mission
Engineering is at the heart of Improbable. We solve some of the hardest problems around in areas such as distributed systems, high-performance cloud computing, messaging and much more.
We are technology neutral and believe in well-tested, robust code. Much of our platform is built in GoLang/Java with areas of C++, TypeScript and C#. We use Open Source technologies (such as CoreOS, etcd, Fleet, Docker, Prometheus, gRPC) and give back to the community through open source contributions when we can.
We’re hiring Senior Software Engineers across multiple teams. There is always a diverse range of challenging and interesting projects to work on. Similarly, we welcome diverse engineering backgrounds and are able to offer highly interesting challenges across all our teams, we never hire to fill a gap.
You can find out more about some of our engineering projects here
Responsibilities
Designing and implementing new algorithms to distribute and scale our simulations
Integrating new workers with our distributed stack
Core infrastructure that underpins seamless scaling (networking, packing, storage, containers, logging, security across all compute providers)
Creation of world-class, robust APIs and SDKs for external customers
Developing tooling to understand, visualise and reason about large real-time simulations
Competencies
A strong software engineering pedigree, comfortable choosing the most appropriate language/technologies for the project at hand.
You have previously operated in a senior capacity and mentored or coached more junior engineers from a technical perspective.
Software Engineering is more than just a job to you. Perhaps you contribute to Open Source projects, blog or speak at events occasionally, or just spend a great deal of your time thinking about interesting problems.
You're disappointed when you're not learning something new or stretching yourself.
You can offer your opinion and respectfully reason with people, but equally commit to the direction decided by the majority after being heard.
You value working in different problem areas and are prepared to work in whichever team is necessary to add the most value to the business.
You embrace that in a fast-growing start-up, priorities can change quickly.
You're accountable and get satisfaction from shipping stuff on time / delivering quantifiable results.
You go out of your way to help others achieve and improve as a team.
You're modest when the results speak for themselves, and humble enough to take responsibility when they don't.
Experience Of The Following Would Be Advantageous
Building large-scale distributed systems
Working on cloud-based scalable architectures
Building high-traffic, robust APIs, SDK or web architectures
Working with Game Engines (i.e. Unity, Unreal, CryEngine etc…)