Senior Software (Backend) Engineer - Nodejs, Go, Javascript at Beamery (London, UK)

About the Opportunity 

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to join our rapidly expanding engineering team here at Beamery HQ in London. You will join a value delivery team and work  on core SaaS capabilities for products that power the experiences for millions of candidates across many of the world's biggest companies and brands. 

This role is about giving you a broad remit and early involvement in shaping why you build what you build, as well as the how - from the discovery phase all the way to production operations. You will also be providing technical leadership and mentorship to ensure Beamery engineering standards are continuously improved.

What will you be doing at Beamery?

• Building market leading B2B multi-tenanted SaaS platform disrupting recruitment industry 


• Accountable for technical discovery, solution design, prototyping, implementation and operations for core platform services (you build it you run it)


• Accountable for technical mentorship of junior engineers


• Evolving Beamery engineering standards (coding standards, TDD/BDD practices, frameworks, tooling, docs) and processes (design reviews, code reviews, branch management, deployment, release management and service operations) 


• Learning and expanding your skill set

Who are we looking for?

• 7+ years of hands on experience as a software engineer delivering business critical scalable cloud based services preferably multi-tenanted B2B or B2C SaaS services


• Excellent analytical & troubleshooting skills: ability to convert ambiguously defined business problems into well-understood requirements


• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban)


• Experience of using software engineering practices such as TDD, pair programming, testing automation, code reviews, code refactoring, branch management (GitFlow) and CICD practices is a must


• Strong Javascript and NodeJS including operational experience of running scalable services using NodeJS runtime 


• Strong GoLang is highly desirable 


• Operational experience of using Kafka, Mongo, ElasticSearch services at scale is highly desirable


• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack is highly desirable


• Operational Experience with service orchestration (ZooKeeper/Istio) and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (i.e. Terraform) is desirable


• Understanding of IaaS/PaaS/Servless deployments and related operational tradeoffs is desirable


• Degree in computer science/mathematics/physics or related technical subject is highly desirable

How will success be measured?

• Product capabilities adoption rate / inc revenue generated


• Flow metrics: Feature lead time, cycle time and throughput


• Service SLOs: availability, performance, failure rate and recoverability

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