Polaron

Software Engineer

Polaron

full-time

Posted on:

Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £75,000 - £95,000 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerJavaScriptKubernetesNode.jsPostgresPythonReactTypeScript

About the role

  • Get familiar with Polaron’s stack, workflows, and development practices
  • Ship meaningful, incremental improvements to our systems or product features
  • Build confidence deploying and testing your own changes
  • Deliver a complete feature across the stack (frontend + backend)
  • Collaborate with designers, FDEs, and ML engineers to translate a user problem into a working product
  • Improve performance, reliability, or developer experience within a key area
  • Independently deliver impactful, well-architected features and systems
  • Develop strong product intuition and technical judgment - making clear tradeoffs on speed, quality, and scope
  • Contribute to improving engineering workflows, architecture, and internal tools

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience building full-stack web applications
  • Strong proficiency with using TypeScript across the stack (we use React, Node.js, and Prisma). If you love writing full-stack TypeScript and modelling complex state with types, this role is for you!
  • Experience working with relational databases (we use PostgreSQL)
  • Experience building APIs and integrating with cloud-based services
  • Ability to reason about architecture, performance, and system design.
  • Bonus points for:
  • - Experience with Python.
  • - Exposure to visualization-heavy or scientific applications
  • - Familiarity with common cloud providers such as AWS, and technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Benefits
  • Equity: meaningful stock options in a growing company
  • Holidays: 25 days + 2 “festive leave” days
  • Perks: gym membership, free barista coffee

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
TypeScriptReactNode.jsPrismaPostgreSQLAPIscloud-based servicesPythonDockerKubernetes
Soft skills
collaborationproduct intuitiontechnical judgmentindependenceimpactful deliveryperformance improvementreliability enhancementdeveloper experience