About the role

Senior software engineer designing, building and operating systems using Node.js and TypeScript at Seccl, the embedded investment platform owned by Octopus.

Responsibilities

Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of engineers and product along with colleagues from customer-facing and operations teams.
Design, implement and operate your services within your domain.
Be accountable for the SLAs of your products and iterative improvements.
Maintain and extend documentation for your services.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence while understanding when “good enough for now” is appropriate.
Provide guidance and mentorship for more junior engineers.
Communicate with non-technical colleagues to answer queries about the Seccl system.

To own your services from design to operation. We operate a build-and-run model where engineers have autonomy but full accountability.
Engineers are not passengers in their products but champions. Drive improvements and features while being comfortable to openly collaborate and investigate ideas and being challenged.
Have a strong ability to understand business requirements and turn this into efficient, scalable solutions. Desire to learn our business domain.
Experience in a strongly/statically typed language.
Have a strong understanding of designing, building, and running high-quality, standards-compliant workflow APIs, with a focus on testing, observability, and performance.
Have worked with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP). We use AWS.
Have worked with distributed systems and are comfortable debugging through tracing and observability.
Willing to be on-call for your services.
Have experience with Node.js, specifically Typescript.
Have experience with Amazon Web Services.
Have experience with Serverless products.
Have experience with document databases, specifically MongoDB.
Have experience mentoring/managing.
Have experience in a build-and-run model.
Have experience in a structured on-call process and incident management
Previous experience working in regulated industries, particularly finance.

27 days holiday + bank holidays (some can be flexible) + day off on your birthday + three days (full time) per year for Dependant leave
Two volunteering days per year
Length of service award – one month paid sabbatical at eight years
6% employer pension contribution, and life assurance
Private medical insurance with AXA Health
Enhanced Parental leave
MacBook and up to £500 home office set up budget
£750 per person learning budget
Option to work abroad for up to six weeks a year
Health and wellbeing initiatives including free therapy via Wellness Cloud, mental health support via Headspace
Strong financial wellbeing focus including access to Octopus Money, Octopus Share Incentive Plan and will writing offering via Octopus Legacy
Perkbox – Flexi-points giving you a range of discounts and perks including free weekly coffee, gym and retail discounts
Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Octopus Electric Vehicle Leasing