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Software Engineer, Full-Stack

💰 $80,000 - $90,000 🌍 London, England 📅 07/26/2024

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Job Description

Languages - Go, Typescript, Postgresql Frameworks / Infra - Encore, Next.js,
Vercel, GCP, Render About you We are looking for a startup-focused and
experienced software engineer, who is keen on solving the real-world problems
in an industry ripe for innovation. You communicate well and think from first
principles. You are endlessly curious and open-minded to working in new ways.
You pride yourself on speed and accuracy. You’ve made meaningful tech
contributions in your previous roles. You have experience communicating
directly to product users to come up with technical requirements. You have the
confidence to operate autonomously and understand when collaboration is
required to drive the project forward. You want to be close to the customer
experience and see the impact of your work. You proactively keep up with tech
trends and want the opportunity to implement simple but powerful technologies
to drive the company forward. You’ll be working closely on a daily basis with
our VP of Engineering and Principle Designer to distill business discussions
into technical requirements. What you’ll do Discuss requirements directly with
our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and
everything in between. Design, develop and maintain our customer-facing app
and internal backoffice tool. Drive architectural decisions and optimise
efficiency across the tech stack. Keep a keen eye on the customer experience
to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes. Ship new features and fixes
quickly. Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a
culture of excellence. Challenge the status-quo Technical requirements
Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills. Excellent communication and
collaboration skills. 2+ years writing production-ready code for frontend as
well as backend. React (Typescript) + Golang 2+ years writing SQL (Postgres)
for query optimisation, migrations and analysis. Experience with serverless
applications, containerisation (e.g. Docker) and CI/CD. Experience in managing
cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS. Bonus points Startup experience
Experience with Python web services (e.g. FastAPI, Django). Data engineering
experience using PyData stack technologies (e.g. NumPy, Pandas, etc.)
Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs, RAGs utilising
embeddings. Data science experience - from raw data to meaningful insights.
Technology Frontend: Typescript, Next.js, Vercel Backend: Go, Postgres,
Encore.dev, Google Cloud, Python Services: GitHub, Sentry, Stytch, OpenAI p.s.
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