Staff Backend Engineer

monzoreferrals; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 151.000 - 198.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Equity

Remote UK

Flexible hours

Learning budget

Visa sponsorship

Zusammenfassung

monzoreferrals is seeking a staff-level backend engineer to build and support customer-facing services within a large product engineering organisation. You will work in a cross-functional squad and contribute to distributed systems that scale for real customer outcomes.

You will write strongly-typed code in Go (and/or Java/Scala), design resilient software, and mentor peers while helping raise the technical bar.

Qualifikationen

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product.
• Product-minded with care for customer outcomes and data-informed decisions.
• Comfort with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Genuine interest in distributed systems and resilient software design.
• Experience with Go, Java, C, or Scala.

Aufgaben

• Build and support backend services for a product area within a cross-functional squad.
• Write resilient, well-typed code using Go and contribute to engineering practices.
• Design and operate distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker and AWS.
• Collaborate with product, design, researchers and analysts to test ideas and ship changes.
• Contribute to open source work and knowledge-sharing across the team.
• Mentor other engineers and raise the technical bar.

Kenntnisse

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

Go

Java

Scala

Mentor others

Strongly-typed languages

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Kafka

Cassandra

Envoy

AWS

Jobbeschreibung

Role overview

A staff-level backend engineering role within a product engineering organisation of several hundred engineers. The work centres on building and supporting customer-facing services inside a squad that includes product, design, research, mobile, web, and data colleagues, while contributing to a wider collective of around 100 people. It suits someone who enjoys distributed systems work, writes resilient code in a strongly-typed language, and cares about real customer outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and support backend services that power a particular part of the product alongside a cross-functional squad
• Write resilient, well-typed code using Go and contribute to shared engineering practices
• Design and operate distributed systems using Cassandra, Kafka, Envoy, Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS
• Collaborate directly with product managers, designers, researchers, and analysts to test hypotheses and ship changes
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing across the engineering community, including open source work
• Work across squads and collectives as needed, including areas where machine learning and AI play a major role
• Mentor other engineers and help raise the technical bar

Requirements

• Strong experience working on the backend of a technology product
• A product mindset with care for customer outcomes and data-informed decision making
• Comfort working in teams that handle ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Genuine interest in distributed systems and resilient software design
• Experience with one or more strongly-typed languages such as Go, Java, C, or Scala
• Curiosity and the desire to learn new things quickly

Benefits and work setup

• Salary £130,000 to £170,000 plus equity
• London office or remote anywhere in the UK, with ad hoc meet-ups in London and travel costs covered
• Flexible hours, part-time patterns considered where feasible
• Annual learning budget of £1,000 for books, training courses, and conferences
• Visa sponsorship and relocation support available