Backend Engineer (Visa Sponsorship Available)

Techwaka; London; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in London seeks a Backend Engineer to join their cross-functional team. In this role, you will work on financial infrastructure using Golang and collaborate on the full application lifecycle. Benefits include competitive salary, stock options, and support for professional development.

Benefits

Stock options

Private health

Private dental

12 Mental health days off annually

1 paid Community day off

Free breakfast daily

Free gym in the office

Team and company-wide events

Support for conferences and professional development

Qualifications

• Some experience as a backend or fullstack engineer.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, or similar frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Work with Golang to build large-scale technology.
• Participate in the entire application lifecycle from architecting to development.
• Collaborate with Frontend developers for integration.

Skills

Technical rigour

Challenger mindset

Education

Computer Science degree

Job description

£66k - £90k per annum

Backend Engineer | London(hybrid working 3 days per week in our Hammersmith office, with free breakfast daily and gym membership)

You will join one of our cross-functional Tech squads based in our London office where you will work with product and design to create products that delight our users.

Tech at GetGround is led by Evgenios as VP Engineering (former Engineering Director at Meta) and we have 3 Engineering Managers working across the dev teams. More info on the Eng team here:

A Backend Engineer at GetGround works on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We primarily use Golang (don't worry, if you don't know Go yet we'll help you ramp up on it - as most of our devs have done), deployed on Google Cloud. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.

In this role, you will develop the following skills:

• Technical rigour through collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thorough refinement processes. We want hackersandpainters!
• A challenger mindset - to implement new patterns and libraries, and to improve readability and efficiency

What you will do in the role:

• Working with Golang, you'll build large-scale technology that will change the world for the better!
• As part of a cross functional, collaborative team, you will participate in the entire application lifecycle, from architecting to development, testing and review.
• Collaborate with Frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic.
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use.

The skills and experience you will have:

• Computer Science (or similar) degree.
• Some experience as a backend or fullstack engineer (Golang experience is NOT essential).
• Design and architecture practices, including in the context of large-scale web applications.
• Experience with unit testing, integration testing, or similar testing frameworks.

Our assessment process is documented here:

We DO provide visa sponsorship for this role!(we hire the very best, regardless of visa status)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary.
• Stock options.
• Private health.
• Private dental.
• 12 Mental health days off annually (1 per month) PLUS holidays + public holidays.
• 1 paid Community day off (paid day off to volunteer for a charitable cause).
• Hybrid working (check details with your recruiter).
• Free breakfast daily.
• Free gym in the office building.
• Team and company-wide events.
• 360° performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development.
• Support for conferences and professional learning & development.

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