Who you are

• You must thrive working on open-ended problems across a range of disciplines; we are a start-up where our engineers do much more than just pick up JIRA tickets
• We hire the person not the CV; if you’re interested, we’d love to hear from you!
• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Independent and self-driven learner with a strong interest in cloud infrastructure and backend engineering
• Python experience is required; experience or interest in Go and/or Rust is a plus
• Hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience with Docker and containerized applications
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform
• Basic to intermediate Kubernetes knowledge
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Loki

What the job involves

• We are a fin-tech start-up with a successful suite of products, now ready to build the next big thing
• A typical week may include debugging python, deploying infrastructure changes, talking to product early-adopters, and strategic planning with the team leads
• Working with product managers, researchers, and other engineers to define cloud-native backend systems and project requirements
• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable backend services with a strong focus on cloud architecture
• Writing clean, well-tested, and production-ready Python code (with opportunities to use Go or Rust where appropriate)
• Deploying and operating production systems on AWS with an emphasis on reliability, security, and performance
• Using Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage cloud resources

Benefits

• Private health insurance
• Dedicated learning budget
• Octopus electric vehicles - Salary sacrifice scheme for electric vehicles run through Octopus
• Vitality health insurance - provides loads of things including access to consultants, discounts on healthy foods / gyms
• Gym - £25 per month towards gym + Breakfast & Dinner allowances if you're in early or working late
• Dash Cycle scheme - where you can buy bikes, bike related items (helmet, lime bike credits etc.)
• Techscheme - where you can buy tech through a salary sacrifice scheme