Hybrid Senior Software Engineer

at Elliptic

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, DynamoDB, ETL, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Redux, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer developing APIs and frontend components to empower users in exploring and integrating data. Collaborating with data engineers and product managers for a seamless experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop APIs that standardise access to complex internal datasets (ideally using NestJS, TypeScript, and Kong)
• Bring thoughtful design practices to API development including versioning, authentication, and security
• Work on the frontend stack (React/Redux, TypeScript) to surface and display data in clear, user-friendly and intuitive ways
• Work closely with data engineers to discuss backend data requirements and optimise queries to keep costs down
• Contribute to data visualisation strategy through intuitive dashboards and tools for exploring complex datasets
• Take full ownership of your code from development through production, help enhance our processes, and foster a collaborative, problem-solving engineering culture
• Collaborate with other application engineers across chapters and teams

Requirements

• Strong experience with modern JavaScript and TypeScript in both backend (Node.js/NestJS) and frontend (React/Redux)
• A solid understanding of API design principles including auth, scalability and security
• Comfort working with varied data sources like CSVs, JSON, lists or similar formats
• Worked with databases and writing complex queries
• Prior exposure to working closely with data engineers or building on top of systems like Databricks, Kinesis or large-scale ETL pipelines
• Experience working in AWS environments using services like DynamoDB, Lambda

Benefits

• Hybrid working and the option to work from *almost* anywhere for up to 90 days per year
• £500 Remote working budget to set up your home office space
• $1,000 Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays
• An extra day for your birthday
• Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave and leave.
• Private Health Insurance - we use Vitality!
• Full access to Spill Mental Health Support
• Life Assurance: we hope you will never need this - but our cover is for 4 times your salary to your beneficiaries
• £100 Crypto for you!
• Cycle to Work Scheme