Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join our expanding Engineering team in London as a highly talented and driven software engineer. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team, working closely with product managers and designers to deliver impactful code solutions. Responsibilities include designing technical solutions, shipping working code using React, Kotlin, and Postgres, deploying and iterating frequently, and maintaining and troubleshooting services. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to the overall engineering strategy. This role is ideal for individuals passionate about problem-solving and working in a high-achievement environment.

Requirements

• Have a degree in a STEM subject
• 5+ years of experience working at a similar level in a mature Engineering team
• Technical expertise with at least one programming language (we use Kotlin and a bit of Ruby), and ideally experience with relational databases
• Proven track record – You’ve made a demonstrable impact in your previous roles, standing out from your peers
• Highly driven and proactive – you relentlessly and independently push through hurdles and drive towards excellent outcomes
• Meticulous – you hold high standards and have an obsessive attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Design solutions: Define the best technical solutions to business problems, contributing to an architectural vision that will scale up to be the world's leading research platform
• Ship working code: We primarily work with React on the frontend and Kotlin microservices with Postgres on the backend, with some older services written in Ruby on Rails. We’ve always got an eye open to assess new technologies that might improve our stack
• Deploy and iterate: We release frequently to our customers, using CIrcleCI and Spinnaker for CI/CD, and quickly gather feedback in order to inform our next iteration
• Build your competency: You will learn quickly by building market-leading technology with experienced colleagues in a high performance environment. Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies
• Maintenance and troubleshooting: Carefully monitor our services, catching errors before users notice them, diagnosing the root cause and deploying fixes

Preferred Qualifications

Perfected their craft via a different route (than a STEM degree)

Benefits

Engineers can also use our L&D budget to fast-track development of specific technical competencies