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Senior Software Engineer
£75k
- £90k
United Kingdom
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Description
We’re looking for Senior Software Engineers with a ‘product builder’ mind-set to join our team and take a pivotal role in the development and guidance of our product. As a ‘t-shaped’ engineer, you will bring a broad practical knowledge across various areas of software development, complementing and supporting our growing team whilst likely having a deeper specialism in front or backend. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your existing skills, experience, and knowledge to significantly influence the trajectory of our product as we aim to revolutionize research.
What you’ll bring to the role
As a member of a cross-functional, stream aligned team you will work collaboratively with the teams’ engineering manager, product manager, designer, and up to 4-5 other engineers including a tech lead
Using agile software development practices and a product mindset, you will work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love
You will be highly self-motivated, energetic and enjoy working in a fast paced environment with a bias for action
Collaborating with teams outside of product engineering, working closely with customers and understanding their needs
Be happy working in all the major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure
With a You Build It, You Run It mindset, you will have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation
Supporting production systems with monitoring tools such as Datadog
Strive for stable systems observability
You will champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture
Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users
What you’ll be doing in the role
Deep understanding of modern web applications
Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases
Experience using Python, or similar language
Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture
Experience using AWS (Serverless) and/or GCP
Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation
Have supported applications in production, with demonstrable experience of good observability practices within a full stack environment. (e.g. Rum, Tracing)
Have worked in a collaborative environment with strong engineering practices and know what good engineering looks like
Care about the product life cycle and are customer value focused
Understand the value of continuous, iterative improvement using data to drive decisions and a culture of feedback
Passionate about software development with an appetite for learning and self-improvement
Key Technologies
Cloud Platforms: Google Cloud Platform and AWS
Programming Languages: Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript
Frameworks: Vue.js, Django Rest Framework, Container-based and Serverless architectures
Databases: MongoDB and DynamoDB
DevOps and Monitoring: CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Celery, EventBridge and DataDog
Role tech stack
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
TypeScript
noSQL
Prolific
Senior Software Engineer
£75k - £90k
United Kingdom
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