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Backend Developer at Bequest - London, United Kingdom
Salary £50,000 to £90,000 a year Company Websitehttps://getbequest.com Published January 2025 Applicants This Week 4
Job Description
We're bringing peace of mind and financial security to all modern families, in one holistic and engaging platform ✌️
We offer life insurance to our users alongside a suite of free products to help them with the life and after-life admin. This includes the ability to write your will for free with our online will writer. We're creating a single platform for users to manage all of their families life admin, and protect the things that matter most to them.
Job Description
What are we looking for?
As we expand our engineering team, we are looking for an experienced back-end developer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and can help us build and scale our product beyond the MVP. Currently we've built a web application, but next on our radar is to build a mobile app.
You will be one of the first hires of the company and working closely with our CTO and the co-founding team. Since we are an early-stage startup, you will have more responsibilities than in a regular role and play a large part in shaping the next features of the application.
Currently we're all working remotely, but post-covid we're looking for someone who is willing to commute to our London office once or twice a week.
Our Tech Stack
Golang
Docker + Kubernetes (GCP)
ReactJS with TypeScript
GraphQL, gRPC
PostgreSQL
Key responsibilities
Write high quality and well tested code for our backend platform
Build components and architecture for our suite of upcoming products
Collaborate and review code of other engineers
Create and present ideas and solutions for improvements to products, services and processes
Test products and updates before they go live
Qualifications
Key skills and experience
1-3 years of back-end development using Golang
Excellent knowledge of programming best-practice, and an obsession with tidy code
A strong communicator, self-starter and problem solver
Willingness to learn new technologies
Nice to have
Experience with cross-platform mobile app frameworks (e.g. React Native, Flutter)