Role Overview
A Senior Software Engineer responsible for the execution of the backend features, with a deep technical understanding and how it translates to representing user needs. You will have operated in a hyper growth startup with experience building SaaS products.
What You Will Do
Autonomously deliver beautiful & robust code with considerations on code structure design and scalability. Implement and optimize data storage solutions. Design, build, and maintain high-performance backend systems using Python.
Why It Might Be a Fit
Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills. 5+ years of backend development experience. Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management.
Requirements
- Strong sense of ownership & strong problem-solving skills
- 5+ years of backend development experience
- Solid experience with MongoDB and Redis for data management
- Experience building & managing message queue systems at scale
- Writing testable, effective and communicative code
- Data modeling, design patterns, understanding trade-offs
- Deep understanding of API design principles, including security, versioning, and performance
- Data & application security knowledge and skills
- Experience in integrating with third-party systems
- Competent with source code control and CI/CD pipeline technologies
- Architecting and building highly available, scalable, secure & performant systems
Benefits
- Comprehensive private medical and dental cover through Bupa
- 24/7 mental health, coaching and wellbeing support through Sonder
- £100/month Healthy Heidi’s stipend
- Global parental leave
- Fertility support
- Learning & development
- Home office budget
- Recharge days after major milestones and busy periods
- Work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per year
- Clinical leave
- Flexibility that works
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