Zeller

Engineering and SRE Lead – Backend

Zeller

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSDynamoDBJavaJavaScriptNode.jsSpringTypeScript

About the role

  • Oversee the end-to-end development, enhancement, and agile deployment of all UK backend systems.
  • Collaborate with the Global Technical Committee to contribute to and adopt best practices, platform codes, and frameworks.
  • Manage suppliers and stakeholders to deliver on business requirements through system enhancements and maintenance. Ensuring high availability in production systems is a critical responsibility of this role.
  • Own the availability, scalability, latency, and performance of mission-critical services, managing and upholding a 99.999% SLA.
  • Design, write, and deliver software and automation to improve system reliability and reduce manual procedures.
  • Build robust automation for monitoring, and proactive issue detection to prevent problem recurrence.
  • Lead the incident management process, conduct blameless post-mortems, and drive corrective actions to ensure continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • Minimum of a Bachelor degree in software engineering (or related)
  • 4+ years of working experience in a technical hands-on software engineering role
  • 2+ years of working experience in a technical leadership role
  • Demonstrable experiences in developing mission-critical systems
  • SRE Tooling (Datadog, CloudWatch, AWS SNS, Xray)
  • AWS Technologies (e.g. ECS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Aurora, SQS, SNS, VPC, Private Link, etc.)
  • Multi-threading & Socket Programming: Java + Spring Applications
  • Typescript and Node.js Applications
  • Architectures - Event Sourcing, CQRS, Polyglot Database, Traditional OLTP, OLAP
  • DevOps - Provisioning-based Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD
  • QA - Practical TDD, BDD
  • Experiences in payment domains
  • Proven track record in developing and maintaining mission-critical, high-load production systems with 99.999% SLA
  • Proven experience in supporting rapid and agile product deployments across different environments - dev, test, stress-testing, staging/production.
  • Motivational team management
Benefits
  • An opportunity to shape and build the future of Zeller from the ground up in the UK
  • A competitive salary package, including equity from an early stage;
  • A balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment;
  • Endless learning and development opportunities;
  • Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements;
  • Being part of a fast-growing and ambitious scale-up.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
software engineeringmulti-threadingsocket programmingJavaSpringTypescriptNode.jsevent sourcingCQRSinfrastructure-as-code
Soft Skills
technical leadershipteam managementcollaborationincident managementcontinuous improvement
Certifications
Bachelor degree in software engineering