Hybrid Software Engineer, Risk

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• Job title: Software Engineer, Risk
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Airflow, AWS, Clojure, Cloud, Distributed Systems, DynamoDB, ElasticSearch, Microservices, Pandas, Postgres, Python, Redis, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Software Engineer working on AI technology that helps businesses make data-driven decisions. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop scalable, reliable software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Contributing towards features, while guiding them from conception to production, ensuring they meet our high standards for quality, reliability, and performance
• Writing clean, readable, and maintainable code that can be easily understood and extended by your teammates and your future self
• Building robust observability into your solutions through comprehensive logging, tracing, and metrics that enable rapid issue diagnosis and root cause identification
• Contributing to the breakdown of complex problems into manageable, deliverable tasks
• Working with services that process millions of documents daily across hundreds of markets and languages
• Designing and implementing APIs that are performant, secure, and developer-friendly
• Optimising database queries and data models for systems handling large volumes of real-time data
• Understanding distributed systems principles to build resilient, scalable solutions
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineers, to deliver customer value
• Maintaining a product engineering mindset and being comfortable discussing the tradeoffs between one approach and another while keeping our users front and centre
• Participating actively in team ceremonies and contributing to our culture of continuous improvement
• Pair programming with team members to share knowledge and deliver high-quality solutions
• Clearly articulating technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Participating in product and engineering forums, committed to maintaining high standards and sharing knowledge across the wider Product & Technology (P&T) group

Requirements

• Working with varied technologies and languages, such as Clojure, Python, Typescript
• Experience with API design and integration, including RESTful services
• Comfortable using different databases (relational and non-relational) and storage systems, such as ElasticSearch, PostgreSQL, S3, DynamoDB, Redis
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts and microservices architecture
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS) and infrastructure-as-code
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration and transformation tools (e.g., Airflow, Argo Workflows, dbt, AWS Batch, Athena, pandas) is a plus
• Proficiency in debugging complex issues and performance optimisation
• Security-aware development practices and understanding of common vulnerabilities
• Willingness to work across the stack, comfortable with both backend services and frontend interfaces
• Strong focus on observability and explainability over extensive unit testing
• Experience implementing comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and logging strategies
• Understanding of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies
• Excellent documentation skills for both technical and user-facing content
• Experience with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements
• Professional development opportunities