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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an engineering discipline that combines software and systems engineering to build and run large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems. At Goldman Sachs, SRE is responsible for the availability and reliability of our firm's most critical platform services, and ensures they meet the requirements of our internal and external users. We look for engineers who are motivated to collaborate with our businesses to build and run sustainable production systems, which can evolve and adapt to changes in our fast-paced, global business environment.
Skills & Requirements
Proficiency in one or more of the following: Go, Python, C, C++, Java, Perl, Ruby or shell scripting
Experience with algorithms, data structures and software design
Experience with UNIX operating systems internals and / or networking
Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, and troubleshooting
Hands-on experience with debugging and optimizing code, as well as automation
Strong interpersonal skills, drive, and ownership
Coding beyond simple scripts
Solving novel problems from first principles
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.
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.
Principal Software Engineer Bud Remote (UK) / London, United Kingdom Ā£80,000 to Ā£100,000 a year
May 2021
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Our Missionš
Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the worldās most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances.
Youāll be leading the development of some of Budās most critical internal services that are utilised by product teams across Bud as well as owning a number of core platform exposed services that are non-product specific for domains such as authentication and traffic management. Every request that hits the Bud Platform will end up touching at least one of the services youāre responsible for. Youāll be contributing to Bud-wide architecture as well as actively developing in Budās Platform & Security [Product] Team where youāll be the driving software engineering force in the team (which is mostly composed of SRE/Platform Engineers). Youāll also be a core channel of representing the perspective of backend engineers in the team and helping the team to solve cross-engineering problems.
What youāll be working with
You'll chiefly be using Go working on our various internal or exposed services although we also have a number of services in our Platform written in Python.
Using a range of different technologies including Cassandra, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch (ELK), RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, Envoy, Kubernetes, Istio, Vault
If youāre interested in picking up one of our languages, a new technology or skill we provide lots of opportunities to learn with a mentoring programme, R&D days and regular training available. We like to help people grow and learn!
A bit about you
You are a well-rounded, inquisitive engineer who enjoys solving complex problems using clean, efficient and creative methods and putting those solutions into action working in a team
Proven experience with Go; and a great foundation with another programming language (e.g. Java, C, C++, Ruby, PHP or Python)
You think about resilience, reliability and scalability on-par with other functional requirements and are experienced in balancing and implementing strategies against requirements in these areas
Awesome analytical and communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas to non-experts with eloquence and confidence
Comfortable working with SQL and NoSQL databases
Automated testing of systems and applications is second nature to you
You understand and advocate the value of observability and are comfortable implementing and utilising metrics, tracing and logging
Able to both work independently as well as collaboratively within a team
Experience with defining, monitoring and alerting against SLOs
Taking it to the next level
Experience with Kubernetes
Youāve worked on/with gRPC APIs from both a client and a server perspective
Any security engineering background or experience working with cryptography libraries
Previous experience in banking or fintech, particularly Open Banking related, companies
Experience working in a cloud environment such as Google Cloud Platform or AWS
Experience working with Cassandra, RabbitMQ or Kafka
Comfortable with Site Reliability Engineering principles, tools and drivers
Experience working in an internal Platform Team or working closely with SREs/Platform Engineers and/or Security Engineers
Comfortable leading or participating in operational (or security) incident response
Engineering at Bud
The software engineering team are tasked with solving highly technical problems to enable solutions that tangibly benefit the lives of millions of people. From how to scale our solutions to tens of millions of users in the most effective manner of integrating hundreds of third-party businesses. Data is key to our business and we need passionate developers to help capture it, store it, transform it, research and most importantly secure it.
What is it like to work for Bud?
We could play buzzword bingo but one of our core values is 'Authentic' and the best way to demonstrate this is by sharing our employee engagement dashboard. This provides a weekly engagement and NPS score giving you a true reflection of life at Bud. All data collected is realtime & anonymised so we have no control over what you see.
The dashboard is interactive so check it out here and have a look at what the numbers mean, https://bit.ly/2MhjAZT
A bit more about us
Weāre a diverse group of people. With backgrounds ranging from data science to music production, more than 80% of our team come from outside the world of finance ā providing us with a unique perspective as we help consumers feel more in control of their lives. For us, an interest in people comes first; finance follows.
More about what we're doing
The apps and infrastructure weāre building are designed to place the power of personal data back into the hands of normal people. Picture this: a world where your bank knew you were paying too much for your gas bill and could switch you to a more suitable provider, or understood your savings targets and could automatically find you a better deal. Thatās what weāre working towards.
We believe that diversity will make us better.
Budās mission is to make the money part of peopleās lives simple. To get there, we need a workforce that is diverse as the people we create our products for. Which means we need people who have different backgrounds and experiences, who are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and ways of thinking. We truly believe that these differences will make us grow as a company and a team. We strive to create a workplace and culture where our people are empowered, supported, given equal opportunities and can bring their authentic selves to work.
To read our job applicant privacy policy, please click here.
Benefits
Compensation š°
We offer competitive salaries in line with industry benchmarks, set using extensive market data. We review salaries on an annual basis to make sure we continue to reward people well for their contributions at Bud.
Options š
Anyone joining Bud is granted stock options and the opportunity to invest in what we are building and developing, and to get to share in our future successes.
Wellbeing Allowance šļøāāļøš§āāļø
We understand how important it is to look after your physical and mental health, and also that this looks different for everyone. To support this, Bud has a Ā£50 monthly flexible wellbeing allowance which can be used towards your own wellness, whether thatās a gym membership, meal-box subscription, massages or something else!
Learning & Development š
As part of our commitment to developing our people, all employees at Bud have an annual Ā£500 pot available to use towards their learning and development - think books, courses & events - the choice is yours.
We also have quarterly R&D days, giving you the opportunity to take a break for 2 days from live projects and work on something thatās inspired you, either independently or as part of a collaborative team.
Flexible Working ā³
As a trusted member of the Bud, youāll have the freedom and flexibility to manage your time and routine in a way that suits you, and your team, allowing you to deliver your best work. This role can be based in our London office, or fully remote/distributed in the UK.
Time Off šļø
Weāre a team that likes to work hard, so we need to make sure we balance this with time to rest and relax. We offer 25 days holiday, plus the usual bank holidays, plus additional time off over the holiday season.
Equipment š»
We want to make sure everyone is set up to work effectively and comfortably - so youāll get to choose your own kit, including any additional equipment you might need to work from home.
Social ššŗ
Weāre big on keeping Bud a social place to work, with big quarterly events (we throw an epic summer party), regular team socials & monthly company breakfasts. This year weāve stepped up our virtual social scene with quiz nights, virtual cocktail making, book clubs, and online workouts.
Commuting š
We are big advocates of sustainable transport and travel, and are members of a cycle to work scheme. We also have season ticket loans available.
Pension š¦
We believe in helping our staff save for retirement, with Bud matching pension contributions up to 5%
Back-End Engineer Office for National Statistics Newport, Wales / Fareham, Hampshire / London, United Kingdom Ā£29,017 to Ā£41,149 a year
October 2019
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
Working pattern -Ā Flexible working, Full-time, (Job share / Part-time options)
Salary -Ā Ā£29,017 - Ā£41,149 Package / Benefits - please follow apply link for further details
APPLICATION DEADLINE - 5th November 2019
As a Back-end Software Engineer, you will be a key part of the API and Data team within the Digital Publishing division of the Office for National Statistics.Ā
The successful DeveloperĀ will share responsibility for the ONS Website, Developer sites, Dashboards and CMS. Youāll thrive using agile methods and enjoy working openly, collaboratively and as part of a multidisciplinary team of front-end engineers, back-end engineers, site reliability engineers, interaction designers, user researchers, service manager, product owner and performance analyst.
Tech Stack
Our current back-end technology stack includes Go, Java, Python, Apache Kafka, MongoDB and Neo4j.Ā Ā You will be part of a team with a range of skills and programming languages, so we dont expect you to know all of these.
More details available - for full information on the role, and to progress, please click APPLY to be taken to the CivilServiceJobs website. Ā
For an informal conversation about the role, please contact the advertising recruiter, Darren Weeks on 01633 651628 or darren.weeks@ons.gov.uk
Back End Software Engineer ONI Oxford, United Kingdom Ā£39,000 to Ā£55,000 a year
November 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
About ONI
At ONI we empower scientists and clinicians to understand life and disease at the molecular level. We democratise microscopy at 10 nm resolution where individual molecules in single cells become visible. To be useful, technology must be easy to use, so we automate every step of the workflow through microfluidics, AI and data analysis on the cloud. We are proud of our products enabling our customers to detect viruses, invent drugs, and fight cancer. Since spinning out from the University of Oxford in 2016, ONIās mission has attracted a passionate and diverse team from over 30 countries.
About the role
ONI is looking for back-end software engineers and developers to join our fast moving software team. We use Go and Python to manage complex datasets and schedule dynamic tasks, orchestrated by Kubernetes and interfacing with the front-end over REST and gRPC.
You will be developing reliable and scalable APIs to serve our data-rich microscopy platform, helping scientists in all corners of the world access cutting-edge research. You will be responsible for managing the storage of and access to high volumes of microscopy data with a strong focus on security and scalability; and for developing our Cloud computation system, working closely with other teams to ensure scientists can intuitively understand the results of their experiments.
Required qualifications and experience
BSc degree or equivalent experience in computer science or other relevant field
Experience with back-end web application development, preferably in Python (Django) and Go
Solid understanding of key web standards and patterns, including HTTP, gRPC, REST, web authentication, and WebSockets
Demonstrable initiative, ability to work within multidisciplinary teams, and a reflective approach to self-development
Experience developing for cloud environments, preferably Kubernetes and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Desirable skills and experience
An understanding of the processes and artefacts of academic and/or biomedical research and publication
Experience working with open-source technologies such as NGINX, ElasticSearch, Solr, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ
Familiarity with user authentication including encryption, certificates, key management and RBAC
Experience with DevOps best practices such as GitHub, CircleCI, CodeCov, and JIRA
Senior Software Engineer 90PoE London (United Kingdom) / Remote (Europe) Ā£45,000 to Ā£90,000 a year
February 2021
4 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Us:
90POE is a company with a goal to revolutionise shipping by creating a suite of comprehensive software solutions for the Maritime industry. Our journey begins now. Over the next couple of years, our teams and squads will build more than 30 products from the ground up. This includes everything from global vessel tracking to vessel performance analysis, crew optimisation and so much more.
We're a remote first business employing 120 people across Europe.
Our Mission:
To profoundly advance the safety, efficiency and reliability of the shipping industry through the
application of digital technologies.
The Role:
90POEās mission is big. Itās not going to be easy but with the support and determination from our stakeholders and the brilliant people we have hired, we can achieve anything. Right now, we're seeking a Software Architect to support our product teams in building high-quality software quickly and iteratively while upholding the core technology principles of our platform. This is a hands-on architecture role that will see you working alongside development teams to support short term delivery while also keeping an eye on the broader more strategic, longer-term objectives. This is an incredible opportunity to help to build on our success in modernising the maritime industryās working practices, making shipping safer, more efficient and more sustainable, meaning you will have a directly positive impact on the world, as well as for clients commercially.
Your new team are made up of Software Engineers and Architects, Product, Data and QA professionals and collectively you are responsible for delivering market-changing solutions across, software, hardware and data. Your team will gain not only from your experience and knowledge of your domain but also from your collaborative and results-driven style.
Whatās in for you?
90PoE is a growing start-up, championing real change in the shipping industry. This is an exciting and challenging opportunity to apply cutting-edge technology to revolutionising an iconic industry.
You will demonstrate our values, strive for excellence, engage and motivate those around you and be accountable for your contribution to the teamās priorities. You have the chance to own your and the companyās growth in terms of:
Shaping the next evolution of the Open Ocean platform.
Defining and delivering software across a broad range of technologies and architectures.
Applying technology in innovative ways to solve our customers' problems.
What you will be responsible for:
Bringing a passion for technology, software engineering and quality to everything you do.
Helping to create and foster a continuous improvement culture.
The ability to advocate for good ideas regardless of where they come from
Ensuring that teams are focussed on the right challenges and delivering business value efficiently.
Create documentation for designs and architectural decisions.
Writing code to demonstrate and validate architectural decisions.
Providing teams with appropriate support and context as they plan their work.
Designing evolutionary architectures that can grow with the platform.
Providing a forward-thinking technology input into company strategy and decisions.
Working closely with the Chief Engineer and Chief Architect to execute the planned roadmap.
Representing software architecture and technological values to technical and non-technical staff
Being accountable for your contribution to achieving company priorities
It would be great if you have:
A contagious enthusiasm for and a desire to continuously learn
Deep expertise in designing and developing cloud-native systems.
Experience of architecting and operating a microservice system.
Understanding of event-driven and streaming architecture using Kafka.
Knowledge of containerisation and Kubernetes.
A strong track record in delivering robust and documented solutions.
Wide knowledge of databases (PostgreSQL, Mongo, Redis, Cassandra, ElasticSearch).
A broad range of programming languages (Golang, Java, TypeScript).
Experience of developing IoT systems and data pipelines.
Understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and technologies.
Fluency in English and strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
Incredible work ethic, drive and passion.
Benefits:
We offer a competitive financial package which includes a competitive salary, company bonus scheme, employee referral scheme, a contributory pension and a travel to work loan
We have a positive attitude to flexible working, a competitive annual holiday allowance, cycle to work scheme, supportive family policies and discounted gym membership
We have a culture of which we are proud, a highly skilled and diverse workforce as well as impressive offices in central London and Kiev
Software Engineer - Golang Couchbase Remote (United Kingdom, United States, India) Ā£40,000 to Ā£90,000 a year
January 2021
1 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
At Couchbase, big things happen. Every day, weāre translating vision into reality by tackling new and exciting challenges head-on. This is a breakthrough stage in our company, where the enthusiasm of our employees and leadership team is infectious and growing. Youāll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.
You are a Software Engineer responsible for building and managing cloud-native applications across multiple clouds. In this role, you will develop, implement, and operate Couchbase's Cloud products. If you have experience developing applications using Go programming language (or willingness to learn) along with experience with either the three major cloud platforms- AWS, Azure, GCP, we'd love to have you apply.
Here's a brief look at what success looks like in this role:
In 3 months time- you'll have collaborated with the team to build and shipped a material contribution such as a new feature, regularly contributed to code reviews, and fixed a few bugs.
In 6 months time- you'll have earned the trust of the team and taken on independent code review responsibilities that help prevent bugs that are collaborating on the design of new features.
In 12 months time- you'll have delivered tasks throughout the SDLC, from design through development with some guidance and have established a cadence of on-time deliver with high quality work.
This role is also open to remote work (USA, UK, India) as our teams are globally distributed. We are a remote-first team. Prior experience working remotely is not required, however, we are looking for team members who perform well given a high level of independence and autonomy and will establish a cadence of on-time delivery with high-quality work.
Responsibilities
Design, develop, test, deploy, document, maintain and improve software
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables
Build and expand our APIs and services, written in Go
Collaborate with other engineers across the stack to deliver delightful user experiences
Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve system security, stability, reliability, and performance
Define and implement SLIs and monitor and improve SLOs
Write various kinds of tests including unit and integration tests
Smartly instrument software using techniques such as distributed tracing and logging
Write and review technical proposals
Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes
Document systems, build runbooks, and automate those processes
Key technologies this role will employ: Go (Golang), Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager, Thanos, Terraform, Vault, Couchbase Server, Datadog
Qualifications
You care deeply about software quality and operability, and better ways of building software
You are able to knowledgeably discuss performance, security, and user interactions within complex systems
You desire to write software that is sympathetic to the humans who will maintain it
You love to write Go, more Go, and then a little more Go
You enjoy giving and receiving code reviews
You are kind and collaborative
You enjoy working remote with people from all over the world
Value clear, open communication
We value thoughtful feedback and regular dialogue and collaboration as a fundamental skill for our team members
About Couchbase
Couchbase's mission is to be the platform that accelerates application innovation. To make this possible, Couchbase created an enterprise-class, multi-cloud NoSQL database architected on top of an open source foundation. Couchbase is the only database that combines the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, all in a single, elegant platform spanning from any cloud to the edge.
Couchbase has become pervasive in our everyday lives; our customers include industry leaders Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Comcast, Disney, DreamWorks Animation, eBay, Marriott, Neiman Marcus, Tesco, Tommy Hilfiger, United, Verizon, Wells Fargo, as well as hundreds of other household names.
Couchbaseās HQ is conveniently located in Santa Clara, CA with additional offices throughout the globe. Weāre committed to a work environment where you can be happy and thrive, in and out of the office.
At Couchbase, youāll get:
A fantastic culture
A focused, energetic team with aligned goals
True collaboration with everyone playing their positions
Great market opportunity and growth potential
Time off when you need it.
Regular team lunches and fully-stocked kitchens.
Open, collaborative spaces.
Competitive benefits and pre-tax commuter perks
Whether youāre a new grad or a proven expert, youāll have the opportunity to learn new skills, grow your career, and work with the smartest, most passionate people in the industry.
Revolutionizing an industry requires a top-notch team. Become a part of ours today. Bring your big ideas and we'll take on the next great challenge together.
At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the worldās largest networks that powers trillions of requests per month. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer and named to Entrepreneur Magazineās Top Company Cultures list.
We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us!
In this role, you can expect to:
Work on highly distributed and scalable systems
Participate in the constant cycle of knowledge sharing and mentoring
Manage and develop some of the biggest clusters in the world
Research and introduce cutting-edge technologies
Contribute to open-source
We are still a small team, well-funded, growing quickly and focused on building an extraordinary company. This is a superb opportunity to join a high-performing team and scale our high-growth network as Cloudflareās business grows. You will build tools to constantly improve availability, performance, uptime and response times. You will nurture a passion for an āautomate everythingā approach that makes systems failure-resistant and ready-to-scale.
You may be a good fit for our team if:
You have proven skills of designing, developing and delivering HA scalable production systems.
You have deep knowledge of configuration management software, preferably Salt.
You have solid experience with cluster management systems (Kubernetes, Mesos)
You are comfortable with developing software in Go or Python
You know how network services (DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP) and network fundamentals (DHCP, subnetting, routing, firewalls, IPv6, BGP) work
You have strong experience designing and managing multi-tenant database solutions (Clickhouse, PostgreSQL, CockroachDB)
You are confident in your knowledge with load balancers (nginx, HAProxy)
Bonus points if:
You have strong operational skills and are an expert in bash scripting
You have practical knowledge of web and systems performance, extensively used tracing tools like ebpf and strace.
What Makes Cloudflare Special?
Weāre not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. Weāre a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.
Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflareās enterprise customers--at no cost.
Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.
Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonprofit organization, to create 16-week positions for mid-career professionals who want to get back to the workplace after taking time off to care for a child, parent, or loved one.
1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Hereās the deal - we donāt store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy policy and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.
Sound like something youād like to be a part of? Weād love to hear from you!
Backend Engineer Cuvva London, United Kingdom Ā£75,000 to Ā£90,000 a year
July 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
Job Description
About Cuvva
Cuvva is a new kind of insurance thatās fast, friendly, and flexible.
We get it - insurance doesnāt sound exciting. But this isnāt insurance as you know it. Itās insurance the way it should be. Weāre putting the customer first and building products that solve real human needs.
We were the first company in the UK to sell hourly insurance, and the first to sell insurance through an app. Weāve sold over 1 million policies. Weāve written over 260,000 lines of code. And weāre a fast-growing team of over 70 talented people.
Why work for Cuvva?
Weāre shaping the future of insurance. So we donāt cut corners. We try to do the right thing, even when that makes life more difficult for us.
Weāll speak up when we have an idea - but we know when to let go and get behind something else.
And weāre comfortable giving and receiving honest feedback, and trying new ways of doing things. Itās the Cuvva way.
Weāre building a diverse team with different backgrounds, outlooks and experiences. So we give everyone a fair chance of getting a role at Cuvva. Even if you secretly donāt love insurance. (Donāt worry - we didnāt either.)
And if you need any adjustments or support when youāre applying to Cuvva, no worries. Just let us know.
As well as a competitive salary (Ā£75-90k, dependent on experience) and equity based remuneration, benefits of working at Cuvva include:
Equality
Weāre committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair chance to join Cuvva, whatever your background. We will always treat your application in a fair and equal manner.
Professional development budget
Brand new MacBook
Health and wellbeing budget
Enhanced parental leave
Workplace pension scheme
33 days of holiday a year (including public holidays )
Referral bonus when you bring your friends to join the Cuvva team
Office library full of great books
Fresh fruit and breakfast club every day
Season ticket loans
Cycle to work scheme
A day off to volunteer
One-to-one sessions with our Sanctus coach, giving you a safe space to talk about your mental health
Coffee machine in the office
Fully stocked beer and soft drink fridge - we do team drinks every Thursday
Regular team lunches
Monthly team outings (so far weāve done things like karaoke, go-karting, bowling and comedy night)
About the role
We're looking for a software engineer who has held senior positions in engineering teams within high-growth, high-scale startups, who will operate with a high level of autonomy, ensuring impeccable reliability and availability. You care deeply about building rock-solid infrastructure for the long term, with a track record of delivering solutions which support your team and your product.
You will develop Cuvva's core platform, abstracting the key processes required to sell insurance, delivering solutions that allow the team to develop strong and stable products, without having to spend time ensuring they get the basics right.
Aside from developing core platform services, we expect you will also become heavily involved with ops and security activities, contributing towards the maintenance of our servers, AWS account, etc.
"Core platform"
When we refer to the "core platform", we mean the services which underpin the processes of all insurance activities on our system.
For example, we expect one of these to be the "policy service", which might be responsible for ensuring compliant issuance of policies, coordinating mid-term adjustments, preventing overlapping policies (double insurance), etc.
Other services could include user authentication, risk & pricing calculation, handling the process of modifying user data in-line with any mid-term adjustment requirements.
All services we consider to be part of the core platform will have strict requirements around stability, data integrity and transactional safety. All functionality must fail safely and explicitly, for example using 2-phase commit processes or other similar techniques. This will also require a reasonable level of testing to validate this safety.
The perfect addition to our team will have:
a fiercely independent and self-driven approach
5+ years' commercial experience working on back-end systems at high-scale startups
at least a year of commercial experience working with Go
strong knowledge of security practices, ideally with a slightly grey-hat background
a working knowledge of the entire web stack - from how DNS lookups are transmitted, to how browsers prioritize CSS rules
awareness of compliance and financial regulation
We are a small team so it is important that the successful candidate is not only technically highly competent, but also a great cultural fit!
Backend Developer Third Light Cambridge, United Kingdom / Remote (UK) Ā£40,000 to Ā£50,000 a year
June 2020
2 Applicants This Week
More Than 6 Months Old
This job posting is no longer available
Job Description
Third Light is hiring a Back End Engineer āa Go developer or someone who has been mixing Go into their work or personal projects and is readynow looking for a primarily Go-based role.
You may work remotely - joining a team that already includes remote workers - or from our Cambridge office.
This is about delivering sophisticated new product features for release to our state-of-the-art software service that helps people manage and share their digital media files easily ā features that deliver immediate positive impact for our global user base.
We're a small and expanding software development team, building an enterprise application with a highly-polished UI, using the very best and latest techniques. We employ an iterative, design-led process where everyone on the team gets a say.
Our product is a single-page JavaScript application loosely-coupled to a back end that's built on Go microservices and legacy PHP. We use microservices for all new features and Go is our chosen language to do this. In parallel we are migrating our older codebase to Go microservices.
We're agile and manage our work using a gentle Kanban process with daily stand-ups and we encourage a lightweight, productive approach to development. We can allocate projects that build upon your current strengths, and we offer a personal development approach that you may help shape.
Your opinion and expertise will be valued from day one.
Upcoming projects within the team
Integrate with social media to provide a publishing platform that can also gather user-generated content
Provide AI and machine vision to detect duplicate files and provide auto-tagging and OCR
Create a metrics & reporting system to track usage of features, document downloads and image views
Implement a full SFTP client & server interface to integrate with SLR Cameras and legacy systems
Extend workflow and automation microservices to create intuitive automated channel publishing tools
Automate orchestration of microservices in our product e.g. exploring Kubernetes
< your idea here! >
We're looking for
Someone who's positive about Go and wishes to embrace this exciting language
Proven back-end coding skills using either PHP or Go and for Linux
Demonstrable interest in Goāfrom industry, self directed learning or personal projects
An appreciation for continuous unit and integration testing
Skills in designing, building, testing and maintaining web services, ideally microservices
Ability to work with a large, live, production codebase
Familiarity with relational databases e.g. MySQL or PostgreSQL
Familiarity with CI/CD, preferably within a Git-based workflow
Optionally, familiarity with porting an OO monolith to a microservice architecture
Someone considering mid level back-end jobs such as: Go Developer | Go Microservices Developer | Golang Developer| Node.js Developer | PHP Developer | Python Developer | Back End Engineer | Back End Developer etc.
You may bringāor like to gaināskills exploring any of the following
Containers, containers as services and automated container deployment
Large-scale storage, manipulation and streaming of multimedia
Machine intelligence, visual recognition or similar numerical computation
Production experience in systems configuration, monitoring, logging, and metrics gathering
Our current technology mix - we'll help you get up to speed
c.Ā£50,000ā negotiable āwe're keeping an open mind
Contributory pension scheme
Personal development plan that you can shape for related training/certifications/conferences
25 days holiday + public holidays | flexible hours | bicycle and free car parking | on site cafe | good coffee and tea | fresh fruit | choice of high end workstation | an adorable Beagle to brighten the office
Working remotely: The Third Light development team embraced remote working a few years ago and now has workers in more than one country. We strive to provide a friendly, fun, supportive remote-working culture and we refine our processes to make remoting easier. We will welcome your ideas and contributions. We provide computing equipment and cover reasonable costs incurred from running a home office.
Normally, as a new starter, you'd come to the office for a few weeks to get to know each other. Due to Coronavirus you will no-doubt join us remotely, at least temporarily, which will bring interesting challenges in how best to introduce you to, and integrate you into, the development teamāhow to train you, how to help familiarise yourself with our systems and ways of working. We see this as an interesting challenge so weāre working it out at the moment. We're planning a fully-remote āonboardingā process with team meetups, one-to-one sessions and pair programming as well as online social gatherings for you when you join.
If you'd prefer to primarily work from our office this option will still be available to you after lockdown.