Senior Back End Developer

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Job description

We're an innovative digital company led and backed by a successful technology entrepreneur. We provide highly scalable real-time data enrichment APIs that deliver critical data-based insights to insurers at the point of quote. Our APIs handle millions of transactions a day and we are looking to expand the breadth and depth of our product offering.

Alongside flexible and remote working we offer a fun, friendly working environment and a free equity stake in the company for all employees. About the role:

You will be joining a small team of highly capable engineers building our core product suite capable of processing millions of transactions daily. Highly skilled as a developer and professionally experienced with high-volume transactional systems, you'll be our most experienced hands-on software engineer.

You'll advise on how to architect our solutions in a sustainable way and to modern standards and share your knowledge to help others to do the same. You will have a strong voice in technology choices in this arena, the ability to pick up new concepts quickly, and an opportunity to broaden your skills across the wider technology stack we use; learning from our other experienced engineers.

This is a remote first role. Occasional travel to the head office in Nottingham or other meeting locations may be required. The role will typically involve:

• Platform development using AWS Lambda / NodeJS / Typescript / DynamoDB / Redis / Cognito / Docker / Cloudformation and other technologies
• Mentoring & sharing knowledge with other team members
• Architecting new features and supporting others to do the same
• Improving our development practices
• Unit testing and test automation
• Building & managing infrastructure services in a predominantly Serverless / AWS / CI cloud environment
• Planning and estimating technical work
• Automating manual repetitive tasks
• Anything else that might reasonably be required to help us ship, manage and maintain great software!

About you:

• You're an excellent technologist who gets stuff done
• You're curious, self-disciplined, and thrive working as part of a small cohesive team, providing mentorship to those around you whilst growing your own skills
• You're a proactive, positive, can-do kind of person who communicates in plain English and delivers simple solutions that stay focused on the bigger picture

Requirements:

• Excellent general development skills
• Designing and delivering service backed React-based applications, ideally with exposure to fullstack development
• HTML / CSS
• Excellent JavaScript or ideally TypeScript coding skills
• Unit testing / TDD experience
• Git source control
• Mentoring & sharing knowledge with others
• Great problem-solving skills and attention to detail
  

Desirable:-

• Free share options in the company
• Flexible and home working available for all employees
• 25 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Pension
• Regular socials (subject to COVID restrictions)
• Bespoke training & development
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Tech Scheme
• Bus/Tram2Work Scheme

• Telephone call
• Tech test
• Video interview
• Offer!

APIs, AWS, Typescript, Node.js, DynamoDBNode.js, Typescript, AWS Lambda, CloudFormation, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, Git, Unit Testing, TDD