Orbital

Software Engineer

Orbital

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptKubernetesNext.jsPythonReactTerraformTypeScript

About the role

  • Own the end-to-end design and development of key features of our web application along with the underlying services and infrastructure that support it.
  • Work on complex Backend, and Infrastructure projects
  • Take ownership of key technology decisions and lay the groundwork for the company’s ambitious growth plans
  • Develop, test, refactor, deploy, maintain and support production software
  • Collaborate with a cross functional team (an AI product manager, VP of AI, legal domain experts, data scientists and software engineers) to define user stories, quickly experiment and ship new features along with implementing both functional and non-functional requirements
  • Champion quality and reuse across the product and the codebase
  • Collaborate with individuals across the business to ensure the features you develop have real business impact for customers and actually move key business metrics as we design and build a brand new product that doesn't yet exist in the market
  • Participate in architecture and code reviews to continuously improve the quality, maintainability, security and scalability of our applications

Requirements

  • Proficiency in Python with proven experience building and scaling backend systems from scratch.
  • Experience with FastAPI and SQLAlchemy for robust backend solutions.
  • Experience with Terraform for infrastructure as code, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Proficiency in managing and scaling applications in a cloud environment.
  • Experience with k8s.
  • Experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated deployment.
  • Ability to implement and execute automated testing for quality assurance.
  • It would also be nice if you have:
  • Have experience with Frontend development - ideally React, TypeScript and/or Next.js
  • Experience working with LLM’s and OpenAI's API in particular
  • Built or integrated with highly secure, fault tolerant APIs
  • Experience building high performance, distributed systems at scale
  • Proven experience of driving and using modern dev practices like BDD, TDD, 12 Factor, CI/CD
Benefits
  • Competitive starting salary
  • Matched pension contributions
  • Flexible working hours and location
  • 25 days paid holiday (plus bank holidays)
  • Professional equipment and personal development budget along with training opportunities to learn and develop your skills
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • An inclusive community enjoying all-company off-sites, lunches and socials

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Hard skills
PythonFastAPISQLAlchemyTerraformk8sCI/CDautomated testingReactTypeScriptNext.js
Soft skills
ownershipcollaborationquality assurancecommunicationproblem-solving