Senior Backend Engineer

Summary

Join Spotted Zebra, a company tackling the global skills crisis with an innovative workforce management platform. We're seeking a mission-driven Senior Engineer to design and build scalable, reliable systems. You will collaborate in a cross-functional team, contributing to a market-leading product. This role involves transforming complex requirements into robust backend solutions, optimizing for performance, and ensuring seamless integration. You'll also mentor junior team members and have the opportunity to focus as an individual contributor. We offer a remote-first work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Professional experience with Node.js and TypeScript
• Extensive experience building functional, complex web-based digital products
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud expertise (preferably AWS or Heroku)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong collaboration skills and experience working in cross-functional squads
• Self-starter with a track record of taking ownership and working autonomously
• Highly motivated, resilient, and optimistic, with the ability to thrive in evolving or ambiguous situations

Responsibilities

• Collaborate in a cross-functional squad
• Contribute great ideas and solutions to solve our customer’s challenges
• Spend most of your time making, not supporting, and having ownership over one or more microservices, with a focus on delivering reliable, clean and efficient code with automating testing
• Maximise velocity by knocking down barriers which slow you and the team down, including minimising technical debt and internal dependencies
• Assisting with prototyping, identifying key technical risks, validating (or invalidating) ideas quickly and accurately
• As we grow the Engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to mentor junior members of the team, as well as the option to focus as an individual highly skilled contributor

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with NestJS and RabbitMQ
• Passion for developing SaaS products or prior experience with B2B SaaS
• Background in HR tech or familiarity with HR-related products and tools
• Previous experience in a startup environment
• Experience with microservice architectures in high-availability environments

Benefits

• Meaningful share options
• Health insurance
• Enhanced pension
• Nursery salary sacrifice scheme
• 25 days holiday
• Remote-first
• Work from home budget
• L&D budget
• Dental cover
• Eyes care support
• Co-working space
• Wellbeing allowance
• Travel insurance
• Electric car scheme