Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer
Bristol (2 days per week)
£70,000 - £90,000 + Bonus, shares, 30 days holiday + BH. Great parental leave and big tech investment.

An awesome opportunity to join a great company! They aren't the new kids on the block but I have a feeling we their name is going to be pretty big throughout Bristol in 2024! The business have announced a multi-billion (yep with a B) investment over the next 3 years into their data, people and security. Specifically, £50million is going into this area to start a massive transformation which we are supporting the growth of.

This is a huge opportunity as we start to build out multiple new teams across Bristol. Lots of greenfield project, work to reduce the business's carbon footprint and transform products and services from dates, legacy technology to modern tech. We are looking to hire multiple experienced engineers both Senior and Lead level. You should be comfortable exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve their applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

I asked the existing team what they liked about working here and they said:

'nothing is off limits, if you have an idea bring it to the table, let's discuss and then put it into the pipeline'

'we want latest and greatest, we must continue to innovate to keep up with start up's in this space'

'we want to be inclusive and accessible to all of our customers'

'the culture is to never stop learning, the work is complex and there is a lot to do. You won't be pigeonholed into one area, you can contribute on every front and help optimize and improve existing processes where you need to'

'people will always hear you out and they pay a lot of attention to developer experience which is what I love best'

'you only hold yourself back here. If you want to advance your career and your skills, here is an excellent place to do it!'

What we're looking for:

Expereince in at least one of the following:

• Backend technologies (Java and ideally Go/Golang)
• Frontend technologies (React)
• Designing / refining system architecture
• Using cloud platforms and technologies (Ideally GCP but AWS or Azure is fine)

Experience with at least three of:

• Relational (SQL) DB and document (no-SQL) DB
• Second programming language
• Distributed and scalable applications principles
• Building RESTful services or Web UI
• Kubernetes and Linux OS
• Exposure to continuous integration pipeline and test automation
• Exposure to public cloud infrastructure
• Exposure to Kotlin, iOS, Android, Flutter or Rust
• Experience with Hibernate ORM
• Exposure to Quarkus
• Understanding of networking principles, tools, and equipment
• Exposure Linux system admin tools
• Understanding of Maven
• Exposure with Python and Big Data technologies including ML

Salaries £70,000 - £90,000 + bonus, shares, 30 days holiday + BH, great parental leave and menopause health package, also a very competitive pension of 15%

Process: 2 stages inc a technical test which they can provide (or bring along an example of a project you have worked on and talk that through with the team) then a behavioral/culture interview.

Please get in touch to find out more. 15 roles are available.