Graduate Software Engineer
Starling Bank
Lead Software Engineer
NatureMetrics
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetes
About the role
- Define and implement engineering best practice: Lead the establishment and implementation of robust software development best practices.
- Mentor and enable the team: Develop and deliver training to enable other team members to perform a broader range of software development operations, increasing team autonomy and empowering individuals to take ownership of key initiatives.
- Drive architectural simplicity and reliability: Champion a philosophy of architectural simplicity and proactively identify and address technical debt.
- Foster a culture of ownership and product/end-user awareness: Lead the team to take full ownership of their software from development to deployment and monitoring, promoting a product mindset that prioritises client needs.
- Champion engineering as a key driving force for growth: Build cross-functional relationships and understand business needs to problem-solve and enable teams to move quickly.
- Proactively communicate progress, concerns, and challenges to the wider team and stakeholders.
- Foster a culture of tech utilisation and AI adoption within the engineering team.
- Inform roadmap and prioritisation: Stay abreast of innovation in the sector, highlighting new opportunities to streamline and accelerate roadmaps, and extend our product offering.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading and mentoring engineering teams in a high-growth, agile environment.
- Deep expertise in designing, building, and operating scalable, data-intensive applications on cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP).
- Strong, hands-on, full-stack software development background.
- Demonstrable experience with the challenges of building scalable data-driven platforms.
- Expertise in modern data architecture, cloud infrastructure (IaC, Kubernetes, Serverless), and DevOps practices (CI/CD, observability).
- Excellent communicator who can articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- A mission-driven individual with a genuine passion for NatureMetrics' mission.
- Familiarity with geospatial data analysis, frameworks, and formats (advantageous).
- Experience with Earth Observation (EO) data and satellite imagery processing (advantageous).
- Knowledge of building infrastructure to support AI/ML model training and deployment (MLOps) (advantageous).
- Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment, particularly within life sciences or environmental tech (advantageous).
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements - this is a hybrid position, with the expectation that the successful applicant will attend the office 2-3 days a week depending on location
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Benefits package including salary sacrifice pension scheme prioritising sustainability; life assurance; Health insurance; Enhanced annual leave; Cycle to Work Scheme; enhanced family friendly policy.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
software development best practicesfull-stack software developmentcloud platformsAWSGCPdata architecturecloud infrastructureIaCKubernetesDevOps
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationownershipproblem-solvingteam autonomyproduct mindsetcross-functional relationshipstraining deliveryclient needs awarenesspassion for mission
