Role overview
A staff-level backend engineering role within a product engineering organisation of several hundred engineers. The work centres on building and supporting customer-facing services inside a squad that includes product, design, research, mobile, web, and data colleagues, while contributing to a wider collective of around 100 people. It suits someone who enjoys distributed systems work, writes resilient code in a strongly-typed language, and cares about real customer outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Build and support backend services that power a particular part of the product alongside a cross-functional squad
- Write resilient, well-typed code using Go and contribute to shared engineering practices
- Design and operate distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
- Collaborate directly with product managers, designers, researchers, and analysts to test hypotheses and ship changes
- Contribute to knowledge-sharing across the engineering community, including open source work
- Work across squads and collectives as needed, including areas where machine learning and AI play a major role
- Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar
Requirements
- Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
- A product mindset with care for customer outcomes and data-informed decision making
- Comfort working in teams that handle ambiguity and shifting priorities
- Genuine interest in distributed systems and resilient software design
- Experience with one or more strongly-typed languages such as Go, Java, C, or Scala
- Curiosity and the desire to learn new things quickly
Benefits and work setup
- Salary £130,000 to £170,000 plus equity
- London office or remote anywhere in the UK, with ad hoc meet-ups in London and travel costs covered
- Flexible hours, part-time patterns considered where feasible
- Annual learning budget of £1,000 for books, training courses, and conferences
- Visa sponsorship and relocation support available
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Staff Backend Engineer Arbeitgeber: monzoreferrals
Als Arbeitgeber bietet die digitale Bank eine dynamische und unterstützende Arbeitsumgebung, in der Senior Data Scientists eng mit funktionsübergreifenden Teams zusammenarbeiten, um innovative Produktstrategien zu entwickeln. Mit einem attraktiven Gehaltspaket, flexiblen Arbeitszeiten und einem jährlichen Lernbudget von 1.000 £ fördert das Unternehmen kontinuierliches Lernen und persönliche Entwicklung. Die Möglichkeit zur Relokation nach London und die Unterstützung bei Visa-Angelegenheiten machen diese Position besonders attraktiv für talentierte Fachkräfte, die in einem zukunftsorientierten Umfeld arbeiten möchten.
