Senior Software Engineer
Prolific
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- As a member of a cross-functional, stream-aligned team, you will work collaboratively with the teams’ engineering manager, product manager, designer, and up to 4-5 other engineers, including a tech lead
- Using agile software development practices and a product mindset, you will work as a team to plan, build and support software that our customers love
- You will be highly self-motivated and energetic and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment with a bias for action
- Collaborating with teams outside of product engineering, working closely with customers and understanding their needs
- Be happy working in all the major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure
- With a You Build It, You Run It mindset, you will have intimate knowledge of our products from code commit through to production operation
- Supporting production systems with monitoring tools such as Datadog
- Strive for stable systems observability
- You will champion our principles, fuel a growth mindset by getting involved in communities and help improve our engineering culture
- Pushing the boundaries, questioning the status quo, ensuring what we are doing and what we are building has high value and impact for our users
Requirements
- Deep understanding of modern web applications
- Experience building Typescript/Javascript applications and using NoSQL databases
- Experience using Python
- Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture
- Experience using AWS (Serverless) and/or GCP
- Understand the importance of driving quality into code through test automation
- Have supported applications in production, with demonstrable experience of good observability practices within a full stack environment. (e.g. Rum, Tracing)
- Have worked in a collaborative environment with strong engineering practices and know what good engineering looks like
- Care about the product life cycle and are customer value focused
- Understand the value of continuous, iterative improvement using data to drive decisions and a culture of feedback
- Passionate about software development with an appetite for learning and self-improvement.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Remote working within our impactful, mission-driven culture
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
TypescriptJavascriptPythonNoSQL databasesEvent-Driven ArchitectureAWSGCPtest automationobservabilityfull stack development
Soft Skills
self-motivatedenergeticcollaborativecustomer value focusedgrowth mindsetpassionate about software developmentstrong engineering practicesiterative improvementcommunicationbias for action