Senior Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Delivering technical solutions independently and in collaboration with the team
• Leading and contributing to conversations and initiatives with other backend developers and the team; sharing knowledge and contributing to technical best practices
• Building strong relationships within the team and wider organisation, actively mentoring and supporting through technical guidance and feedback
• Keeping up to date with new tools and practices, continuously seeking to improve your own technical expertise, domain knowledge and skills
• Communicating effectively in both technical and non-technical discussions
• Comfortable making appropriate trade-offs in project scoping and delivery considering maintainability, scalability, and time to deliver in collaboration with the team and other stakeholders
• Working closely with our cross-functional team to align on implementation and solutions

Requirements

• Proficient in Go
• You care deeply about best practices and are passionate about clean, scalable and performant code
• Strong understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures
• Passionate about keeping up to date with new tools and technologies
• You champion quality standards and ensure thorough testing in your work across unit and E2E tests

Tech Stack

• Go

Benefits

• 💰Competitive Salaries
• We have benchmarked this role between £80,000
• £95,000
• 💰Pension
• We’ll match pension contributions up to 5% through our scheme with Aviva
• 📚Learning & Development Budget
• £1,000 a year to accelerate your learning
• 📈 Career Progression
• We have uniquely built out progression frameworks to help accelerate your growth and quarterly R&D days
• 🧘‍♂️ Mental Health Support
• Online therapy and resources through our partners at Spill
• 🏋️‍♀️ Wellbeing Allowance
• A flexi-pot of £50 a month to use towards your wellbeing
• 🏥 Private Medical Insurance
• Through Vitality
• ⏳Flexible Working
• We trust our team to get the job done and will support various flexible working arrangements as part of our hybrid approach, which includes our 60-day work abroad allowance
• 🏖️Time Off
• 25 days + bank holidays + additional time over the holiday season
• 🍼 Parental Leave
• We offer enhanced parental leave, as well as 5 days of paid fertility leave and 10 days of paid pregnancy loss leave as we know the journey to parenthood isn’t always straightforward
• 🫶 Volunteering Leave
• 2 paid days off a year to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you