Senior Backend Engineer

Hybrid · London, England, United KingdomFull-timePosted 2 months ago

A few of the things in our backlog that you could be working on:
Extending, improving and optimising our data APIs that ingest well over 100 million events a month
Creating new data feeds for our commercial partners that deliver valuable data to drive business decisions
Creating brand new APIs and endpoints to support our mobile apps
Improving, upgrading & refining our entire cloud based infrastructure
You’ll be working closely with our existing product and engineering team, including Staff backend engineer and Head of Engineering
On the backend we use Go, PostgreSQL and Redis to serve RESTful and gRPC APIs running on Kubernetes, all hosted on GCP. We use GitHub for version control and CI, Jira for tracking tasks and Slack for sending silly GIFs
Building new features, modifying existing ones and fixing bugs as they arise
Writing automated tests to keep the quality of our products high
Ensuring the smooth operation of our infrastructure through automated monitoring and alerting
Planning and executing upgrades of key pieces of infrastructure
Working closely with the product team to refine new features and requirements

We’re looking for an experienced backend engineer, working on the core technology that powers our platform
Experience using some flavour of SQL for data persistence
Experience working with event driven systems
5+ years commercial experience building systems with Go
Experience documenting APIs with Swagger / Open API
Experience writing RESTful APIs in production environments
Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes
Excellent verbal and written English communication skills
Experience building cloud native solutions

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