Staff Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Joining our team as a Staff Software Engineer, you will be working closely with business leads, commercial managers, ops executives, product managers, data analysts, designers and fellow engineers to solve business problems with software.
• As a product team a lot of our time is spent on the front end, but you'll be contributing across the full stack from infrastructure, databases, pipelines, servers, CDNs, to web UIs and monitoring and analysing performance. This includes building responsive accessible React components aligned with our design system, working with APIs, using real-time metrics and alerting, interacting with databases, and keeping our applications secure. You will help to identify opportunities for process improvements, conduct code reviews, and ensure solutions are properly tested with a focus on best practices and quality assurance.
• We’re leaning-in to the current AI revolution, having incorporated AI into several of our workflows, and we’re actively working on a number of projects with AI at the core. So you’ll also be working closely with AI not just as a development tool, but as a business enabler. This includes finding new and better ways to leverage AI to generate lasting value, and evangelising AI adoption across the business.
• Most importantly, you will be supporting and improving the engineering team’s delivery & technical expertise in a continuous learning environment. You'll contribute to defining and maintaining best practices to ensure our software remains robust, scalable and maintainable, using your technical skills to help shape the future of Financial Services within RVU, inspiring and guiding the team along the way.

Requirements

• Strong Typescript skills, convinced of the benefits of statically typed languages.
• Deep knowledge of the Node ecosystem (node, npm, yarn), including bundling and dependency management. Familiarity with Bun is also desirable.
• Proficient with AI tooling including delivering code using CLI or editor-based LLM agents, and using MCP servers
• Solid understanding of the React paradigm, including one way data binding, declarative programming, rules of hooks, react anti-patterns
• Practical experience of software engineering principles and managing complexity (e.g. separation of concerns, design patterns, domain driven design) and an appreciation and aspiration to write elegant clean code, understanding that simple often isn't easy.
• Familiarity with container-based cloud-native applications, and architectural patterns such as REST APIs, message passing, horizontal and vertical scaling and load balancing
• Knowledge of web security concerns (e.g. SQL injection, XSS, CORS, cookies, authentication/authorisation techniques)
• Experience with the following is a plus:
• Kubernetes, Prometheus, Argo workflows, GitHub Actions, Elasticsearch/Opensearch, PostgreSQL, BigQuery, DBT data pipelines, Fastly, Storybook, component libraries and design systems, Builder.io, Bun

Tech Stack

• BigQuery
• Cloud
• ElasticSearch
• Kubernetes
• Node.js
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• React
• SQL
• TypeScript
• Yarn

Benefits

• 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
• A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
• Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
• A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
• Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
• A healthy learning and training budget
• Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
• Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
• Free breakfast in the office daily
• You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
• Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
• Regular events
• from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.