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We're building the connected finance businesses deserve. Unleashing them with tomorrow's technology, today. Our flexible payments solutions help global enterprises â like Samsung, Deliveroo and Adidas â launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.
We liberate smart, passionate people to collaborate, innovate and do their best work â faster. That's why we're one of the most valuable fintech firms around. But we're just getting started. By cutting through financial complexity, we'll empower companies to change the world. Join us. Unlock your potential.
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Senior Software Engineer at Checkout.com:
Our solutions allow merchants to route dynamically a transaction to the best payment provider to optimise their conversion rate. Your main task will be to design and create or maintain micro-services within our infrastructure. Our product handles millions of transactions within a week. The API has its key part on it but the load is also on a multitude of other services.
You will work closely with our technical teams to learn about the possible technical bottle-necks. We have implemented different technologies such as Go (go-kit toolkit, gRPCâŠ), Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL and many others. Your role would be to lead us to new technologies that our product can benefit from.
Our product handles financial data making uptime one of our key KPIs. We expect that you will be able to work on high-availability and technically challenging programs.
You will join a talented team of 10 engineers, Data Scientists and DevOps, that are tech-passionate, working closely with most of them. Our main goal is to ensure that we can contribute to your personal growth as an engineer.
Payments are often compared to a black-box. Merchants around the world have issues understanding how their performance is and what optimization can be done. Our team is focused on building the best payment performance tool there is. It allows merchants to better understand their online processes as well as offline payments.
We offer 2 products to our merchants:The first, named Telescope, allows us to analyse, understand and make recommendations to a merchant. It does not require any technical integration from them and works mainly through webhooks, pulling data from APIs or parsing exported files.
About You
3 years software development experience in Go
Know your way around web-related tech (HTTP, TLS, proxies, API conventions...)
Implemented APIs
Experience deploying applications as a part of a service-oriented architecture
Curious and unafraid of digging deeper to understand how systems of all kinds work
Keen to communicate with third-party gateways from a technical point of view as well as to maintain the best relationship as possible
Knowledge in the payment ecosystem
Worked on critical services
Some basic knowledge about ElasticSearch
What you will be doing
Payment gateway integrations: Interacting with external APIs through an in-house framework, handling webhooks notifications and parsing bank reconciliation summary files
Communication with third party payment gateways
Design and implement new workflows on our services
If you don't meet all the requirements but think you might still be right for the role, please apply anyway. We're always keen to speak to people who connect with our mission and values.
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What we stand for
At Checkout.com, everything starts with our values, including the experience we offer our people.
#Aspire
We supercharge your professional growth with career development programs and leadership training. You can learn your way, with tailored pathways and online platforms. And be inspired at relevant conferences.
#Excel
We don't stop at 'good' here. We strive for excellence amongst our teams every day and recognize colleagues who take it to the next level through our quarterly peer-nominated Hero awards.
#Unite
We're proud of our global connections and inclusive environment. So we champion this through our colleague-led community groups and celebrate many cultural events together.
More about Checkout.com
We empower businesses to adapt, innovate and thrive with the connected payments they deserve. Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1000 people across 17 international offices. To date, weâve raised a total of $830 million, with our recent Series C valuing us at $15 billion.
We believe in equal opportunities
Checkout.com is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is the right thing to do and is central to our success.
Senior Developer Government Digital Service London / Bristol / Manchester, United Kingdom ÂŁ50,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
February 2021
3 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Who we are
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is part of the Cabinet Office. We lead the digital transformation of the UK government so that it works better for everyone.
Following our Government Design Principles, we deliver platforms, standards and digital services to help departments transform how they work and meet the needs of their users.
Our work is user-focused, dynamic and forward-looking, making our organisation an exciting and innovative place to work.
Youâll share the responsibility for the digital transformation of government. Youâll ensure high quality code is delivered in line with project goals and delivery cycles. Youâll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team focused on one or more projects. Above all, youâll want to make government better, which may sometimes involve challenging the status quo. Also, as part of the Data Standards Authority youâll lead by example adopting and promoting data standards.
lead the implementation of our central API catalogue.
shape the technical solution of a federated API catalogue
support wider technical needs from the Data Standards Authority and across Data and Innovation
take responsibility for solving complex issues, and for the quality of the code produced
work in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure our software puts user needs first
build automated tests to support our continuous deployment environment
share knowledge of tools and techniques with your wider team, both developers and non-developers
act as a digital ambassador across government, supporting recruitment, identifying good practices for GDS to adopt and sharing experiences, e.g. through blog posts, tech talks at conferences
be involved in helping recruit developers and, where appropriate, helping sift and interview
Who you are
Weâre interested in people who:
have experience in back-end development, with detailed knowledge of Ruby
understand software design principles
research and learn new programming tools and techniques
take a systematic approach to solving problems
have experience of using testing to validate solutions
understand agile environments and version control
understand web security and accessibility
have an awareness of technologies used for web applications, e.g databases, backups, CDNs and search, and of Unix-like operating systems, e.g. Linux, Mac OS
have experience working with web technologies
How you'll be assessed
In the Civil Service, we use our Success Profiles. For each role we advertise we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. We will be looking at your experience, career history and achievements that are relevant to the specific job role.
For this role we will be assessing your ability, strength, experience, technical/specialist skills and behaviours, the following behaviours are the most relevant:
working together
changing and improving
making effective decisions
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.
Things you need to know
You can find out about the application process and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to know page.
Senior Software Engineer Grail London, United Kingdom ÂŁ80,000 to ÂŁ110,000 a year
September 2020
14 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Software Engineers
GRAIL is a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. GRAIL is focused on alleviating the global burden of cancer by developing pioneering technology to detect and identify multiple deadly cancer types early. The company is using the power of next-generation sequencing, population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to enhance the scientific understanding of cancer biology, and to develop its multi-cancer early detection blood test. GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, CA with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit www.grail.com.
GRAIL UK is looking for experienced software engineers, senior software engineers, and staff software engineers to join the team in London. The engineering team is responsible for supporting the collaborative efforts between GRAIL and its research partners (NHS/UCL). You will work as part of a cross-functional team to design, develop and run systems that power the safe execution of clinical workflows and the collection of relevant data. Your work will support cancer research and the development of GRAILs multi-cancer early detection blood test.
You Will:
Use your experience developing front-end applications and backend systems to build software that supports cancer research
Work as part of a cross-functional team to overcome real-world problems that sometimes canât be solved with software alone.
Build and operate the infrastructure and tooling that runs the systems and powers the team.
Work with GRAIL engineers in the United States on core platforms.
Take responsibility for the systems managed by the team and support the operational concerns of our research partners.
Your Background Includes:
You have a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Bioinformatics or similar technical field.
You have relevant work experience designing, developing, testing and maintaining software.
You have worked with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Microsoft Azure.
You are experienced in general-purpose programming languages such as Go, Python, Java, Javascript, etc, but understand that ultimately these are tools to solve problems.
You are passionate about software engineering, as well as software engineering teams.
You have excellent logical reasoning and analytical skills, with a preference for simple solutions.
You are a strong written and verbal communicator and can adapt your communication style and the level of detail to your audience.
We're looking for a senior software engineer or site reliability engineer with experience in Go, microservices, distributed systems and cloud-native technology to come help build a global services platform for developers.
Cloud-native development has become massively complex in a world filled with docker, kubernetes, envoy, istio and much more. We want to abstract away all of this complexity and build a global platform for developers to build and share services.
You should have experience building distributed systems in Go and have battled with cloud-native technologies. You should have a disdain for the way software is built today and want to play a role in changing how we build software in the future.
Senior Software Engineer Blokur London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ80,000 a year
July 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
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
Verisart is currently upgrading is is seeking a hands on Senior Golang Engineer who can work with our technical stack as we migrate from a tightly coupled backend and front end to using React/Redux.
The successful candidate will have strong web app and RESTfull API experience and will be able to support our in-house development team and can start immediately. Knowledge of micro services is also helpful.
The role would involve setting up the API framework as well as any authentication (OAuth2.0) and validation middleware. Routes would then need to be implemented and integrated. Role would also involve supporting any extra code requirements of the development team inside the scope of the API project.
The work will be carried out as part of a small team, based in London (Mayfair). Competitive rates offered, as well as flexible working hours although the position is full time and on site and the successful candidate must be available at least 4 days per week at our office in London.
In general Verisart seeks engineers interested in applying cryptography at real world problems. Our problem lies within the art market as we address the problem of proving provenance for artworks and building evidence based certificates of authenticity. We recognize that cryptography is not a magic bullet. We want to use it intelligently to provide evidence where possible for people to interpret, like the web of trust. Weâre looking for people who understand how to apply cryptography to problems. While understanding the mathematical backgrounds to cryptography is great, itâs not essential if you understand how the cryptographic primitives like hashing and message signing work together to solve real problems. We value passion and hard work when tackling challenges and above all else although an interest in arts and collectibles is helpful.
Skills & requirements
Requirements
Computer science degree or similar (preferred but not necessary). Git. High level experience such as C++, Golang, Rust, Java, Python. Bitcoin experience is an asset.
Our stack
Golang, Postgres, Javascript, Heroku, Python,
About the company
Verisart is building the most trusted way to certify and verify artworks and collectibles using distributed ledger technology. We are a rapidly growing team of applied cryptographers, software engineers and designers with offices in Los Angeles and London. Robert Norton, former CEO of Sedition Art and Saatchi Art, leads the company. Peter Todd, core developer for the Bitcoin blockchain protocol and Dr. Ahmed Elgammal, Professor in Computer Science at The Art & AI Lab at Rutgers University are Board Advisors.
Back-End Engineer Ravelin London, United Kingdom ÂŁ40,000 to ÂŁ85,000 a year
August 2018
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Ravelin is looking for a senior backend engineer to lead the development of a high volume fraud technology platform within a small tech team. You will be invited and expected to have opinions about the strategic direction of the company and products, as well as leading the development team from the front. A successful candidate will be willing learning new skills (machine learning, neural networks, python, golang, cloud automation etc), turning their hand to necessary tasks and working with complete autonomy.
Responsibilities
Code for Humans
Your machine is happy if it compiles; your team is happy if they can understand what it does. Your pull requests are succinct and a pleasure to review, you have unit tests where it matters, and you understand that the code is not, in fact, the documentation.
Reliable & Resilient Software
Not for you the happy path or the assumed network. That habit of yours of assuming the worst and planning for it has earned your stripes in the world of running software at scale under real-world conditions.
Tools for the Team
Whether it's a smart command line utility or a core internal library, you excel at improving everyone's lives by removing repetition & common sources of error, and by solving hard problems in accessible ways. You build internal processes that are so reliable they melt into the background but are key to getting work done.
APIs
You've been on the receiving end of APIs good and bad, and want to delight our customers with the high quality they expect. You know that whilst everything should be JSON, sometimes you have to get your hands dirty with some SOAP for that critical integration but know how to isolate the contagion.
Requirements
Senior Backend Experience/Knowledge of
Go, Java, Python or C
AWS or GCP
Docker, Linux
NoSQL/Cassandra (not including Mongo & Redis)
PostgreSQL
Agile development
Distributed system design.
Git, CI/CD
Benefits
Competitive Salary & Equity Package
25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays
Flexible Working Hours / WFH
Learning & Development Allowance
Volunteer Opportunities & Charity Donations
Fortnightly Pod Lunches
Office Snacks & Drinks
Quarterly Company Socials
Cycle-to-Work and Childcare Schemes
Office Yoga, Football, and Board Game/Movie Nights
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status.
Senior Software Engineer (Go) Form3 100% Remote (United Kingdom, Europe, Canada, Argentina & Sponsorship) âŹ50,000 to âŹ120,000 a year
February 2023
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Locations: UK, EU, Canada (East timezones) & Argentina. Sponsorship available in the UK, Netherlands, Germany (we accepted applicants from any country in the world).
THE TEAM
Our Software Engineering Team is 100% remote and distributed across 20+ European countries. Our engineersâŻworkâŻwithin small, agile, self-managedâŻteams that emphasise best practice and believe quality is everyoneâs responsibility. They favour collaborative development and leverage open-source tools and communities, whilst making sure to share their know-how back up stream
THE ROLE
At Form3 you will have the opportunity to design, develop and deploy backend cloud-native services within a containerised microservices architecture. The work is cutting edge, constantly changing and focused on building and operating critical, highly available, low latency, scalable solutions.
Play an active role in introducing new technologies and ways of working to stay ahead of the competition, without ever compromising on quality. Contribute and collaborate with other engineers on technical and architectural decisions. Enjoy end-to-end ownership from concept to deployment, including building and operating infrastructure, toolset and deployment pipelines. Develop your skills, work on cool projects with the latest tech, all whilst working with a talented, diverse and friendly group of people
Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:
Code: Go (and a little Java), containerised microservices, CQRS, open-source
Ways of working: TDD/BDD, Pair Programming, 100% remote, SecDevOps
WEâRE LOOKING FOR ENGINEERS WITH
Experience in designing and building distributed systems
Familiarity with cloud and containerisation technologies, test automation tools and CI/CD pipelines
Interest in owning projects end-to-end and supporting them as they go live in production
Appreciation of clean code and software engineering best-practice
A passion for learning and an interest in Go (previous experience isnât required), along with a âright tool for the jobâ mentality
Great communication skills who enjoy sharing knowledge and collaborating with others
BENEFITS
30 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
Remote friendly environment
Remote working equipment allowance
Flexible working arrangements
Udemy and educational reimbursements
Full details are available on ourâŻcareers page
Form3 appreciates that we all lead different and often really busy lives. We work remotely 100% of the time and many of us work part time. If youâre interested in hearing what different flexible working arrangements may be available, weâd love to chat.
ABOUT US
We are an award-winning cloud-native payment technology provider for financially regulated institutions. Launched in 2016, we've doubled in size year on year as we continue to redefine what a truly instant payment experience means.
We celebrate diversity, promote entrepreneurialism and are committed to giving everyone a say in shaping our business. Here you will grow as a person and accomplish incredible things. A career at Form3 is empowering, inspiring and fun. Join us and help shape the future of payments.
OUR DEI&B COMMITMENT
We hire talented people from a variety of backgrounds and experiences and are committed to a work environment based on diversity, open-mindedness and curiosity. We are united by our company values (we even created them together!) and we celebrate our unique differences.
Our employee life cycle processes are designed to embrace equal opportunity and prevent discrimination against our people regardless of personal characteristics. It is our strong belief that the more inclusive and belonging we are as a business, the better our work will be.
As an inclusive employer, we guarantee to interview all neurodiverse and physically disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for this role. We also encourage candidates to notify us of any reasonable adjustments that may be required during the recruitment process. This includes providing job adverts in alternative, accessible formats or adjustments required at interview stage.
If you consider yourself to be neurodiverse or physically disabled under the UN definition of disability and would like to be considered under this scheme and/or require any reasonable adjustments please let us know by sending an email to careers@form3.tech clearly stating your consent for us to process this data.
Senior Backend Engineer - Payments Juni Europe (Remote), Sweden, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Lithuania, Brazil, India âŹ80,000 to âŹ135,000 a year
November 2022
9 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Juni who? đ
Weâre Juni. The fastest-growing fintech startup in Europe. Weâre born remote, built for remote work, and busy building the future of financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.
What we do đ€
Think of us as the financial companion made for ecommerce. Weâre building an all-in-one platform that helps ecommerce entrepreneurs understand their business better, improve decision-making, scale up, and unlock the full potential of ecommerce. We even finance their working capital to help achieve their goals and dream up new ones.
How & why we do it đ
We give our people the same thing weâre building for our customers: freedom. Freedom to work wherever thereâs good Wi-Fi. Freedom to be 100% yourself. Freedom to explore your potential and whatâs more â make the most of it. We truly believe weâre making the world a better place for ecommerce, and we want you to be a part of that mission.
Your role đ
Tackle convoluted problems and develop clean, stable solutions that scale. The ideal candidate would be someone who has a genuine passion for designing and implementing elegant software solutions. They would also be intimately familiar (and up to date) with their development ecosystem for making sound decisions when it comes to choosing the right tool or library for the job. We expect our engineers to be able to contribute across the entire product stack, as well as collectively oversee the integrity of the codebase.
Your responsibilities đȘ
In this role youâll be:
- Writing scalable, robust, testable, efficient, and easily maintainable code
- Translating software requirements into stable, working, high-performance software
- Playing a key role in architectural and design decisions, building toward efficient microservices distributed architecture
Within 1 month you'll:
Introduce an important architectural improvement to our Go codebase
Within 3 months you'll:
Help other web backend engineers say theyâre learning a lot and are more productive because of you
Have helped us build new features quicker than we otherwise would have - our velocity has increased significantly
Within 6 months you'll:
Help introduce significant new features which radically improve our product.
Impact the quality of the product, getting to the point where we fix all bugs and are improving performance metrics
Be proud of the product and the codebase
Your qualifications đšâđ
What we need to see:
- Experience developing, monitoring, and improving microservice architectures
- Knowledge of designing and implementing public and private APIs (gRPC/REST)
- Experience with CI/CD
- Great communication skills in English
What weâd love to see:
Strong knowledge of Go programming language, paradigms, constructs, and idioms (we are open to candidates who have strong programming knowledge in other languages but want to work in Go!)
Knowledge of security and/or devops best practices
Experience within the Payments domain
Your tool stack đ»
Mac. Chrome. Even⊠Windows. Choose the hardware that helps you work best. Weâll also support whatever software you need. From Miro to Slack and everything in between.
Tech stack
React, Javascript/Typescript
Go
gRPC (Protocol buffers)
PostgreSQL, Redis
Kafka
Docker, Kubernetes
AWS
Your people đ„
Forget office-based culture. This is people-first culture. Weâre real. We never wait. We care deeply about building a better future for our customers and each other in a way that's never been done before. Here, you can work with people at the top of their game and who didnât get there by playing games. You can help us change business for ecommerce entrepreneurs, change the world â wherever in the world you may be.
Your benefits đ
Weâre born remote-first. Transparent. Caring. Empowering. So our benefits are too.
Hello work. Meet freedom. Join us anywhere within 6 hours of Sweden time zone.
Swap 2D for 3D. Meet the team IRL at two in-person onsites per year.
Diversity is at our core. We're Part Swedish. Part Canadian. Part French. Part Malaysian. Part Italian. Part Nigerian. Part British. Part Turkish. You get the idea.
Great players can stay great players. Progress your career whether you choose to manage people or not.
Happiness stipend. The best things in life are free. But money can buy you a herd of puppies. Get âŹ8,500 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy.
Work al desko. Get âŹ500 a month towards a co-working space.
Stock options. We canât promise youâll make a fortune. But weâll give it our very best shot.
Vacation days. At least 30 per year as standard. Awesome.
Global health insurance. You know. Just in case.
Get sick? No stress. Feel better with unlimited paid sick leave.
We are here for you. Unlimited access to mental health support via Spill.
Work with the best people for the job. Not the best people within 1 hourâs commute.
Get support to switch things up. People change. Careers can too.
Free your nine to five đ€
Hit apply and help us revolutionise financial services for ecommerce entrepreneurs.
The process đ
CV screening > Get to know us call > Team interview(s) > Values interview > Offer (for some roles weâll include a task, but weâll notify you if this is the case)
Backend Go Engineer Geckoboard Remote (United Kingdom) ÂŁ60,000 to ÂŁ85,000 a year
October 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
We're looking for an experienced Backend Go Software Engineer to join the Geckoboard team!
Why join us...
Every single one of us comes to work every day to do something we love. We get to tackle big problems, but in a way that recognises everyoneâs need to work with dignity and purpose in a supportive and inclusive environment. It's the most wonderful thing. In fact the fun part is trying to figure out all the different ways we can come up with to make data accessible and understandable for everyone. It really is amazing. The best part is that we work in an atmosphere of openness, trust and transparency, where everyone is empowered to learn and flourish. We're actually doing really well. We have a product our customers love.
We're really excited to be growing.
You'll be joining a team of empowered engineers in a supportive environment that values experimentation, work-life balance and personal development. We've built a culture of knowledge sharing and feedback, so you'll be involved in planning and prioritisation of work as well as peer reviews and pair programming.
We work in small and focused cross-functional teams, usually made up of a Product Manager, a Designer, and a mix of Frontend and Backend Engineers. QA and Infrastructure tend to come in at the points they're needed or for specific projects. We scope out our project such that we're able to deliver meaningful work but small enough to iterate and take on board feedback quickly. We encourage our engineers to get involved in different teams and projects based on their interests, skills and opportunities to learn. We're also equally mindful about technical debt and make sure we dedicate time to addressing it.
At Geckoboard, we are seeking to solve a real problem and build a long-lasting product. As a result, we place a high value on a clean and maintainable codebase, and on practices that ensure we can continue to deliver quality software rapidly and iteratively.âš
Learning is also a big part of our engineering culture. Once every two weeks every team takes a âLab Dayâ, when everyone is free to work on projects that interest them, learn new skills or contribute to open source. We encourage these projects and often they have led to improvements in the way we work or concepts that have then been prioritised, developed further and added to our Product.
Our stack
Our main frontend application is a large React 16+ codebase and our tests are written with Jest. For communicating with our backend services, we use an Apollo client and query a GraphQL gateway written in Node.js that exposes a single schema but dispatches queries to a number of gRPC services on the backend.
While our backend services are mostly written in Go and run on AWS, the GraphQL gateway is owned by the frontend team, which puts them in the driving seat when it comes to defining the APIs for a new piece of functionality, and provides a single point of reference for both frontend and backend.
While adding features to the product, weâve been building and maintaining an internal React component library with an emphasis on reusability and documentation. Our frontend team is looking to expand this library, with the potential to open source it in the future.
You should apply if...
What weâve described sounds interesting
Youâve worked with Go before*
Youâre interested in distributed systems
Youâre collaborative; you empathise, listen and discuss
You actively seek out feedback in your work and to ensure you understand the problem youâre solving
You have experience collaborating on technical decisions in an open and creative environment
You understand the value of automated testing and a test-driven development approach
Right now we're only considering mid to senior-level candidates, if you're interested in joining the Geckoboard team but earlier in your career, head to www.geckoboard.com/careers and get in touch. We'll be hiring at different levels throughout the year, so we'd love to hear from you and chat about future jobs!
Logistics
At this time, weâre only considering candidates who are (or will be) based in the United Kingdom or Western Europe (CET timezone).
Perks & Benefits
Work your best
Right now, we work fully remote from around the globe. Weâre big on work-life balance and flexible work. We have some core hours but it's up to you to decide how you work around those. We consider 25 days of holiday a year to be a minimum, not a maximum, and have a flexible working policy so that if you need to step out for a school run, an appointment, or something else, itâs no problem. We don't do "crunch time" and have a deep commitment to a clear separation of life and work.
Some of our team also have shorter working weeks and weâre more than happy to accommodate this or other arrangements when possible. Learn more about life at Geckoboard at www.geckoboard.com/careers.
Interview Process
Our hiring process
20-30 minute call with our Talent Partner
45-minute Zoom video call with the Hiring Manager
Coding Challenge
Meet the team via Zoom - about 2.5 hours
The whole process takes about 3 weeks end to end, but weâre flexible!