Remote Backend Engineer

Summary

Linnworks is seeking an experienced Backend Engineer to join their team in a remote role. The candidate should have 5+ years of Software Development experience, strong understanding of AWS products and services, and knowledge of C# (.NET Framework vs .NET Core). The role involves solving technical problems, defining and improving internal standards, collaborating with the team on larger projects, and providing mentorship to junior engineers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development
• Strong understanding of AWS products and services (understanding of Azure counts too)
• Strong knowledge and experience with C# (.NET Framework vs .NET Core)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• Strong analytical & critical thinking skills

Responsibilities

• Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
• Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
• Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
• Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment
• Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team
• Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy
• Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions
• Represent Linnworks and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with setting up and/or maintaining: a distributed event-driven system based on a message broker (ideally Kafka or RabbitMQ + MassTransit), a distributed tracing (or Telemetry in general) framework (OpenTelemetry, or commercial NewRelic, Sentry, etc)
• Solid experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems (with knowledge on how to use DebugDiag, WinDbg, dotTrace, dotMemory or similar tools)

Benefits

• Fantastic team culture based on trust and belonging
• Competitive salary & an Equity Plan
• 5 weeks of Vacation per year
• A total of 38 annual days off after 3 years with Linnworks
• Full Sick Leave compensation up until the 8th day
• 2 Volunteer Days per year
• Remote & Flexible Working
• Laptop & a work-from-home budget – Get a personal budget of £500 to set up your home office
• Mental Wellbeing support - Access therapy, mental health sessions, and yoga through a free premium subscription to Headspace 🧘🏻‍♀️
• Recreational Sports Compensation or supplementary Private Health Insurance
• Confidential Employee Assistance Programme with access to 24/7 compassionate guidance & expert advice
• Career Growth, Training & Personal Development via Linnworks Career Framework
• Opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling and market-leading tech company. at the forefront of a growing e-commerce industry