Full Stack Engineer - Applications

Quantexa; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data analytics firm in London seeks an Engineer to develop applications for the Quantexa Platform. The role involves building SaaS solutions and maintaining demos, requiring strong coding skills and experience in cloud technologies. Join a diverse team focused on innovation and growth, with flexible working options and generous benefits.

Benefits

Competitive salary and Company Bonus

Flexible working hours

Pension Scheme with company contribution

25 days annual leave

Work from Anywhere Scheme

Private Healthcare

Gym Discounts

Free Calm App Subscription

Dog-friendly Offices

Qualifications

• Passion for solving complex problems with high-quality, resilient code.
• Commercial experience with Scala or strong background in a relevant language.
• Experience across the full engineering lifecycle, from design to deployment.
• Exposure to cloud-based, production-grade systems.
• Experience mentoring others and contributing to best practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud-hosted applications using the Quantexa Platform.
• Build and maintain demos showcasing the platform.
• Implement features ensuring customers have the latest updates.

Skills

Problem-solving

Scala

Java or Python

Agile methodologies

Tools

Spark

Hadoop

Elasticsearch

Job description

What we’re all about.

It isn’t often you get to be part of a tech company that, since 2016, has been innovating the data analytics market in ways no-one else can. Our technology started out in FinTech, helping tackle serious criminal activity. Now, its potential is virtually limitless. Working at Quantexa isn't just intellectually stimulating. We’re a real team. Collaborating and constantly engineering better and better solutions. We’re ambitious, we think things through and we’re on a mission to discover just how far we go. 41% of our colleagues come from an ethnic or religious minority background. We speak over 20 languages across our 47 nationalities, creating a sense of belonging for all. If our incredible culture sounds like you, we’d love you to join us.

Opportunity

Applications is an Engineering function within Quantexa’s R&D department that is focused on internally building real-world applications of the Quantexa Platform. This is to enable demonstrations of the product and develop SaaS offerings, whilst also testing and refining new Platform features before they are deployed by clients. This role encompasses two closely related teams working on hosting and showcasing the Quantexa offering:

• SaaS

• Building Quantexa's emerging SaaS offering, a cloud-hosted, standardized deployment of the Quantexa Platform

• Targeting mid-market banks in the US for Retail AML initially, providing them with a cost-effective Quantexa solution, then expanding in future to more use cases and geographies

• Implementing cutting edge features of the Quantexa Platform ensuring SaaS customers always on the latest and greatest of Quantexa

• Demos

• Developing, deploying and maintaining all Quantexa demos, showcasing the different use cases for the Quantexa Platform

• Owning the Quantexa Trial platform, for prospective Quantexa clients to see the product in action using real data

• Building tools to enable solution owners and sales to create their own custom demos

More detailed information on the day to day activities of the sub-teams can be shared on request. The teams work together closely and team members are able to rotate between the teams to enable knowledge sharing and personal development.

What do I need to have?

• A passion for solving complex problems with high-quality, resilient code
• Commercial experience with Scala or a strong background in a relevant language (e.g. Java, Python) with the ability to pick up Scala quickly
• Experience across the full engineering lifecycle, from design to deployment
• Exposure to cloud-based, production-grade systems
• Experience mentoring others and contributing to best practices
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced Agile environment
• A desire to grow and thrive within one of the UK’s fastest-growing scale-ups

Experience in the following would be beneficial:

• Full stack development, with a focus on data processing and ETL
• Building data pipelines for production systems (ETL and/or analytics)
• Working with big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop or Elasticsearch
• Manipulating data to improve quality and integrity
• Exposure to DevOps tooling and automation practices
• Building and deploying SaaS products

Why join Quantexa?

Our perks and quirks.

What makes you Q will help you to realize your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognized and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.

We offer:

• Competitive salary and Company Bonus

• Flexible working hours in a hybrid workplace & free access to global WeWork locations & events

• Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)

• 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off!

• Work from Anywhere Scheme: Spend up to 2 months working outside of your country of employment over a rolling 12-month period

• Family: Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, Adoption, or Shared Parental Leave

• Private Healthcare with AXA

• EAP, Well-being Days, Gym Discounts

• Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep ️

• Workplace Nursery Scheme

• Team's Social Budget & Company-wide Summer & Winter Parties

• Tech & Cycle-to-Work Schemes

• Volunteer Day off

• Dog-friendly Offices

Our mission.

We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.

It’s all about you.

It’s important to us that you feel welcome, valued and respected. After all, it’s your individuality and passion for what you do that will make you Q. We see that – which is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’ve created and will continue to improve our inclusive and diverse work environment. Regardless of your race, beliefs, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, neurodiversity or ableness – whoever you are – if you are a passionate, curious and caring human being who wants to push the boundaries of what’s possible, then we want to hear from you.

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