Head of Engineering
We are seeking a hands-on Head of Engineering for our well funded e-commerce fulfillment startup
At Bezos, our vision is to Deliver Happiness: For our team, for the end consumers, for our e-commerce sellers as well as our logistics partners.
Exciting times in e-commerce: E-commerce sales in Europe is projected to be £406 billion by 2023, expected to grow 8% per year between 2018-2023. The growth is driven by consumers that increasingly buy more online as well as the emergence of small and medium e-commerce sellers, which have grown at 18% and 28% per year, respectively between 2009-2017. There are 200,000 small and medium e-commerce sellers in the UK alone, selling their products through multiple channels, including marketplaces such as Amazon and eBay, their own websites, and on social media like Facebook and Instagram. Today, these small and medium sellers are ignored by the large incumbent logistics service providers and we are on a mission to change that.
Building a next generation Fulfillment-as-a-Service platform: With this explosive growth in e-commerce, the demand for e-commerce fulfilment and delivery is booming. Bezos is a next generation Fulfillment-as-a-Service (FaaS) platform, that allows small and medium e-commerce sellers to outsource their storage, fulfilment, delivery, and returns and focus on what is more important: growing their businesses. Bezos’ operational model is based on partnering with certified logistics suppliers that will execute the different services on our behalf. We believe there is a massive market opportunity to serve these currently unattended and fast growing small and medium e-commerce sellers. We believe that the e-commerce logistics landscape will give place to significant disruption opportunities, and we are planning on taking a leading role to achieve them.
Two founders with proven track records: The founding team consists of Diego Lijtmaer and Vernon Tjon-Soei-Len, who are two seasoned technology executives with experience in e-commerce, the gig economy and last mile delivery industry. Diego built the business development and logistics functions at Just Eat Plc (food delivery, FTSE 100), founded and ran a hospitality business Bacanal and worked in investment banking at UBS (LinkedIn profile here). Vernon was the Director of Amazon Flex UK (part of Amazon’s Last Mile Product & Technology team) and part of the Senior Leadership Team of Amazon Logistics UK, and prior to that worked at Zipcar, Bain & Company and JPMorgan (LinkedIn profile here).
We are looking for an exceptional technology leader: Someone that gets excited about the adventure of a startup and wants to build a world class billion dollar business. Someone that enjoys transforming industries, that enjoys changing the way businesses and consumers think about delivering and receiving e-commerce orders. Someone that is hands on, solves problems, and gets their hands dirty in the execution. Someone that has a demonstrated track record of building amazing technology and building and leading high performance tech teams.
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We strive to create an exciting and amazing opportunities where our team members love to work and have fun with each other. We offer a competitive compensation package which includes an attractive base salary and stock options.
This is a super exciting role and a critical hire for our team, as you will join our startup as one of the very first employees.
Contact us:
Email: joinus [at] bezos [dot] ai
Website: www.bezos.ai
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We are: News UK is a company full of talented, dedicated and creative people. We are an ambitious and ever-growing organisation with a passion for storytelling, capturing moments, meaning and magic to make sense of the world. Our newspapers reach more than 30 million people each week and include The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times. News UK is also home to Wireless, a leading UK and Irish media company boasting independent local and national radio stations.
Your team; Monetise. Responsible for the Monetise domain within the wider MAIN (Monetisation, Access, and Identity for News) platform. Our monetisation services underpin our award winning portfolio of produces across our brands. Our passion lies in building robust, flexible, scalable, secure, and clean platforms using the latest industry standard technologies.
Your role: Principal Software Engineer. We are looking for a talented and passionate Principal Software Engineer to join our team based in London.
Day to day you will: As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be a key component of a team delivering quality software. You’ll interact with product owners and stakeholders, contribute to the technical conversations and ensure that what we build is best in class and fit for purpose. You’ll report in to the Head of Engineering and will help them deliver on the technical strategy and tactical implementation. You’ll mentor other engineers to bring them up to your standard.
What we’re looking for from you: You’re a true engineer with a passion for well crafted and tested code, considering everything from architecture and security to performance. You understand agile methodologies and enjoy collaboration. You lead by example, encouraging your peers to constantly improve. You have a continuous improvement mindset and are proactive in driving positive change, encouraging those around you to do the same.
You love engineering and constantly want to learn more. You do thorough code reviews to be sure what we produce is of a very high standard. You understand the value of and are a practitioner of TDD/BDD. You are an expert in Java and perhaps some other languages too.
As a Principal Software Engineer you’ll be involved with the technical direction as well as day to day coding standards and best practices. You’ll be a mentor to your peers and team members, a source of technical expertise and will participate in strategic conversations with the rest of engineering and the business. You’ll feel comfortable presenting to internal teams as well as external Meetups and the like, representing the engineering work at News UK.
You’ll find these skills useful in this role:
Object Oriented analysis and design
Continuous delivery and associated tooling
Developing Cloud based applications
What's in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team that is expanding. We have an amazing office, a flexible working pattern and a great team environment. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.
Equal opportunities:
The Company is an equal opportunities employer and wholeheartedly supports the principle of equal opportunities for all its employees and for all applicants for employment. It opposes all forms of discrimination in the workplace.
We are a diverse and team so want to maximise every individual’s potential to create a productive environment where everyone feels valued, and where talents are fully recognised and utilised.
This means affording equal access to any employment opportunities within the Company according to your ability, without prejudice or discrimination by reason of race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, belief, gender, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital status, disability or age.
Corporate benefits
We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK. Alongside pay, we offer:
A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
A comprehensive private medical scheme covering pre-existing conditions;
Maternity leave of up to 18 weeks full basic salary and paternity leave of up 2 weeks full basic salary;
Discounted rates for Fitness First gym membership for employees and immediate family;
A range of different flexible working options, which can be requested by employees;
Interest free commuter loan of up to £10,000 tax free
‘Bikes For Work’ scheme to save income tax and national insurance;
Up to four Volunteering Days per year for employees to use on charities of choice;
Health and wellbeing benefits including on-site physio/massage, counselling, legal advice, and others.
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About DoNotPay
DoNotPay makes the law free for consumers through artificial intelligence. For example, helping someone fight their parking ticket or their landlord. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Index Ventures and others. It has saved an estimated $15 million in parking fines and now works in hundreds of legal areas. Why join us? Important work: DoNotPay helps consumers fight for their rights across housing, utilities, finance and transportation. Huge growth: 100,000+ users. The company has been featured in every major media outlet internationally, including the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, Guardian, CBC, Telegraph, Business Insider, ITV, TechCrunch, Daily Mail, NPR, Bloomberg, NBC, ABC, CBS 'This Morning', Telemundo and others. Funded by the best in Silicon Valley. Andreesen Horowitz, Greylock Partners, Felicis, Index Ventures and others. Highly technical team (Computer Science from Stanford University).
You’ll design and build services to support our mobile and web applications. You’ll be working closely with our engineering team to bring DoNotPay to people all around the world.
Come join a small, fast moving team that is tackling some of the most fun engineering problems out there.
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Benefits
(About Sparkfly) These days you hear a lot about culture. We believe in nurturing a workplace that our employees enjoy working in. We’re not just looking to hire someone who meets all the requirements listed below, but instead a team-player who can help us achieve our company vision to profoundly change digital marketing. If you’re looking for an opportunity to be constantly challenged and grow in your area of expertise, keep reading. So who are we exactly? The Sparkfly Offer Management and Technology Platform allows Marketers to easily test innovative digital and mobile media channels, with the ability to understand the true ROI of campaigns. Real-time, item level attribution data directly from the merchant’s point of sale gives actionable insights to Marketers while campaigns are still in market. Sparkfly’s tracking capabilities allow brands and merchants to distribute offers across any channel, and tie the engagement with those offers back to the channel and the individual consumer. Sparkfly’s single-use coupon codes and integration into the Point of Sale allows Campaign Managers to control the redemption of offers by channel, prevent digital coupon fraud, analyze basket size and basket contents for each offer redeemed in-store and optimize the campaign inflight. Sparkfly helps Marketers close the loop on digital offers redeemed in store. Working with major customers like Chipotle, Great Clips, Chick-fil-A and many more, you will be part of a leading technology team that is powering new ways these companies are dong digital business. (About the role) As a rapidly growing company, we’re looking for a qualified, senior developer to join our IT team and assist in the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of the Sparkfly Platform products. Required Qualifications: 5+ year’s software development experience preferably within an Agile development environment Experience with Go, JavaScript, Ruby/Rails, Web Services, Database Design (PostgreSQL), multithreading, socket programming, OO design, and troubleshooting in Linux environment Experience developing APIs for integration and connectivity to third party platforms Experience developing responsive, semantic, standards compliant HTML and CSS At ease in a Linux/Unix development and build environment with experience using Git and CI tools (Jenkins, etc.) Candidate will have a strong understanding of system architectures and design concepts for high transaction volume applications. Full development life cycle- Hands-on through design, implementation, integration, and testing phases. Strong analytical and communication skills to perform analysis and planning for deployment, including failure/recoveries, capacity/performance considerations, and verification. Pluses: AWS cloud hosting experience IPhone/Android app development J2EE and/or Windows .NET development experience Details: This is a full time position in our Atlanta office. Sparkfly provides a competitive salary and benefits package and is an equal opportunity employer.
Join a small, agile team of polyglots who works on a variety of backend applications and services that are essential to our websites and business. We are a team that values collaboration, openness and learning.
Kubernetes, Docker, Go, Python, JavaScript, Java, GitLab, microservices, AWS
You are a curious-by-nature developer with 3+ years of experience. You possess a good set of foundational skills and look for opportunities to grow and bring value to the team. You take ownership, are inventive and enjoy working on things end-to-end.
A company’s culture is always a work-in-progress. Ours is founded upon a professional atmosphere where people get passionate about learning and doing our best. Sometimes we fail, but we learn from these failures. All the while, we believe that maintaining work-life balance and having fun is key to our success.
We have some of the greatest benefits such as: unlimited vacation for salaried employees, medical/dental/vision options, pet insurance, 401(k) matching, commuter subsidy, tuition reimbursement, charity gift matching, huge discounts to wireless/gym/travel/much more. Our office has free snacks, catered lunch, in-house massage chair, and more. We appreciate how hard you work and we celebrate that hard work often.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.