Lunar Energy is hiring a
Backend Software Engineer

Summary

The job is for a Staff Software Engineer at Lunar Gridshare, focusing on backend systems development. The role involves real-time data processing, ensuring system quality and reliability, API design, and contributing to development best practices. The company offers competitive salary, stock options, annual leave, private medical insurance, wellbeing benefits plan, pension contributions, training budget and days, cycle to work scheme, workplace nursery benefit, remote work setup allowance, mental health support platform access, enhanced parental pay, regular socials, flexible working hours, and the option for hybrid or fully remote work.

Requirements

• Experience creating and tastefully adapting cloud architecture
• Expert level in one or more strongly typed languages such as Typescript or Rust
• Experience working in a functional programming paradigm or openness to doing so
• Working experience with Unix-like operating systems

Responsibilities

• Ensure delivery of high stakes and/or time sensitive deliverables
• Build the required platform infrastructure to ingest and process big streams of data in real-time, using AWS primitives in a serverless architecture
• Ensure the quality and reliability of our highly available systems
• Design and implement the business logic to expose our functionality via APIs, using functional programming
• Contribute to the continual improvement of our development best practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring other developers and providing leadership on technical decisions
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Python and data science and/or machine learning
• Ability to work independently, using your assessment of the technical landscape to work out where you will be most effective
• Ability to engage with multiple technical stakeholders and teams, to find common needs and themes

Benefits

• A competitive salary and stock options package
• 25 days annual leave a year + public holidays
• Private Medical Insurance via BUPA (medical history disregarded)
• A wellbeing and lifestyle benefits plan through Medicash
• 5% employer contributions pension matching
• A budget for work-related training of £1,000 per financial year and an allowance of 4 training days
• Cycle To Work scheme and Workplace Nursery benefit
• ��200 upon joining for remote work set-up
• Access to Spill - Mental Health Support platform
• Enhanced Maternity + Paternity Pay
• Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
• Flexible start and finish times, fully remote working or hybrid depending on preferences