Senior Backend Developer

• Leading on the development of substantial changes and features in the product
• Teaching and mentoring less experienced colleagues
• A point of authority on technical best-practice
• Working to ensure that the code your team delivers is performant, supportable and of high quality
• Performing code reviews for others, and having your code reviewed by your peers
• Collaborating with the product team and technical leaders on scope and plan

• Experience delivering and supporting resilient software that scales
• Strong skills in automated testing e.g. unit, E2E, performance, stress etc.
• Deep experience with Java or other statically typed language
• Familiarity with at least one web framework (Spring Boot or Ruby on Rails)
• Working knowledge of SQL and/or relational database concepts at scale, including performance optimisation
• Practical experience working in a multi-language, multi-technology stack
• Technical or team leadership experience on software projects or product development
• Practical experience of service-oriented architectures
• Familiarity with container-based deployment e.g. Kubernetes, Helm etc.
• Aptitude with CI and CD pipelines (GitLab preferred)

• A success-sharing bonus scheme, so we recognise and reward your effort
• Unlimited annual holiday, because we trust our people to manage their own time off
• Flexible working options: you can choose to work from home, at the office, or both - whatever is best for you
• Flexibility around working hours, as long as you're delivering what"s needed
• Annual allowance to help you make the best of your home working environment
• Enhanced family leave provisions
• Personal learning and development opportunities (we dedicate budget for this)
• Spot rewards, so we can say thanks when you do a really great bit of work
• Referral bonus if we hire someone great who you've recommended to us
• Employee of the Month and Employee of the Year awards
• Private medical care packages: individual, partner or family
• Multisport card
• Life insurance package

• Solid experience with one dynamically typed language (e.g. Ruby)
• Knowledge of Javascript, Typescript and a front-end framework (React)
• Experience of architectural migration projects e.g. service extraction/refactoring
• Experience feeding observability/metrics systems
• Experience with AWS

We believe in developing potential so we're not looking for "the perfect candidate" with gold medals and superpowers. Even if you don"t have everything listed above, if you think you could be great in this role please do apply. We want to hear from you. We"re helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19 by continuing to work mostly remotely. Interviews will mainly be by VC. You"ll have plenty of opportunities to ask questions and make sure we"re the right fit for you.