Software Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Lead the delivery of intricate technical projects.

• Take ownership of the end-to-end delivery of complex features and systems.

• Decompose ambiguous product challenges into scalable technical solutions.

• Balance speed, maintainability, reliability, and customer value when making decisions.

• Provide guidance on implementation decisions and technical trade-offs across the stream.

• Foster technical excellence within the team.

• Write code that is maintainable, predictable, and scalable.

• Conduct thorough technical reviews to enhance both code quality and engineer skillsets.

• Develop patterns, standards, and methodologies that enhance consistency across the stream.

• Identify and address systemic technical challenges, not merely isolated bugs.

• Influence architectural and design decisions.

• Create efficient, scalable systems with a focus on long-term maintainability.

• Assess architectural trade-offs involving integrations, APIs, infrastructure, and product workflows.

• Proactively anticipate scaling challenges and operational risks.

• Contribute to wider engineering discussions through technical leadership and peer influence.

• Mentor and elevate the skills of engineers.

• Provide coaching to junior engineers on implementation, debugging, design patterns, and engineering practices.

• Offer timely and actionable technical feedback.

• Promote a culture of collaboration, ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Lead by example, demonstrating strong engineering judgment and professionalism.

• Enhance reliability and operations.

• Improve deployment reliability, monitoring, and observability across the stream.

• Participate in and lead responses to production incidents as needed.

• Drive actionable post-mortems and operational enhancements.

• Advocate for proactive quality practices that minimize long-term operational risks.

• Collaborate across functions.

• Work closely with Product and QA to ensure the team comprehends what is being developed, its significance, and how quality is upheld.

• Simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders.

• Clearly and early communicate risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong professional experience in backend development using Python.

• Experience in building modern frontend applications (Svelte and/or jQuery preferred).

• Strong comprehension of APIs, distributed systems, integrations, and scalable application design.

• Experience navigating complex product ecosystems and diverse technical surfaces.

• Familiarity with any of the following is advantageous: AWS cloud infrastructure, Browser/email extensions, CRM integrations, OpenAI APIs / LLM-powered applications, Observability and operational tooling.

🏝️ Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave.

• MacBook and any additional technology or software you require.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Private Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance through Aviva.

• Income Protection Insurance.

• Extended mental health coverage and Employee Assistance Programme.

• Compassionate leave policy.

• Private pension contributions (Royal London).

• Monthly company social events.

• Regular in-person hackathons.