Staff Engineer, Labyrinth Screening

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the software design and technology for a specific area within Labyrinth Screening.

• Collaborate with various engineering teams, technology and product leaders, as well as customers to define requirements, design, and deliver high-quality software solutions.

• Integrate engineering principles and methodologies into organizational decision-making, incorporating problem definition, solution development, and quality assurance into business outcomes.

• Contribute to the establishment of standards, design patterns, and technology strategies across technical teams.

• Ensure the consistent application of architectural decisions and guidelines across Ripjar’s software offerings.

• Scale the Labyrinth Screening SaaS platform to accommodate more companies, data feeds, data items, and users.

• Direct technical decisions, oversee supported teams, and help shape the comprehensive technology roadmap.

• Design and deliver scalable cloud-based and on-premise software while clearly articulating designs and trade-offs.

• Inspire engineering teams to embrace new ideas and practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive and diverse experience in software development and design as both an engineer and technical leader.

• Experience with big data or large-scale data processing systems.

• Solid understanding and practical experience of software design patterns, industry best practices, and architectural design.

• Proven expertise in deploying software in production environments.

• Background in designing distributed systems that manage substantial data and/or workloads.

• Ability to navigate complex scenarios, address uncertainty and ambiguity, and articulate the architecture of complex systems.

• Demonstrated capability to lead, mentor, and engage broader technical teams to foster internal growth and career development.

• Excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills tailored to various audiences.

• Proficiency in software engineering.

• Strong working knowledge of one or more technologies, including JavaScript, ElasticSearch, OpenSearch, MongoDB, Apache Kafka, EKS, and Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with microservices architectures.

• Notable experience in SaaS-platform scaling is highly desirable, particularly in evolving and enhancing system architecture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary based on experience.

• 25 days of annual leave plus an additional day off for your birthday, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, along with a Christmas shutdown.

• Fully remote working opportunities.

• 35-hour work week.

• Flexible working hours.

• Private family healthcare coverage.

• Life assurance benefits.

• Pension salary sacrifice options.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme.

• Company contributions to your pension plan.

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.

• The latest technology, including a high-end MacBook Pro.

• A well-stocked pantry with food, snacks, and drinks available when in the office.