Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

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About the role

  • Engineer and optimise exchange solutions, focusing on but not limited to scalability, low latency, reliability, monitoring, security and automation
  • Drive sprint planning, including proper scoping of tasks, and execution of the roadmap delivery goals, working alongside our Product Management function
  • Set the standard for quality engineering, including improving our engineering processes, to keep our level of excellence high
  • Collaborate with other leads and engineering managers, and other stakeholders in the implementation and future development of product roadmap
  • Be proactive during incident management with hands-on troubleshooting
  • Be the champion of the stack by demonstrating first hand how to implement functionalities in the right way, with an eye to the horizon and your mind on the present
  • Ensure the career growth of the engineers in your team as they advance in seniority
  • Represent the team in cross-functional meetings and internal events
  • Articulate the company vision and strategy to the team; the “why”, the business case, context, benefits any constraints etc

Requirements

  • Previous experience leading and delivering projects in an IC capacity
  • Proven leadership skills, and interest in building and managing technical teams
  • 6-8 plus years’ experience in designing, developing, and implementing distributed systems
  • Can demonstrate deep knowledge in running services in cloud microservice environments and hands-on experience with Kubernetes
  • Familiarity with AWS cloud
  • Familiarity with observability principles and tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Sentry Elastic-search, Jaeger)
  • Excellent planning and communications skills and able to lead conversations with development and product teams
  • 6-8+ years of experience building services for low-latency and high-scale products
  • 5+ years of experience working with a compiled language - Rust is preferable, but experience with C++ or Go and interest to learn Rust is also acceptable
  • Previous experience leading a team technically or directly
  • Proven track record working in agile environments
  • Demonstrable experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform and Gitlab CI

Benefits

  • Stock options which vests over 4 years
  • Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
  • Health insurance
  • Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included)
  • We’re a member of a cycle-to-work scheme
  • We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
  • 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
  • Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home
  • 20 days a year of global working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year
  • We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don’t need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!

Job title

Senior Software Engineer – Distributed Systems

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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