Senior Backend Engineer

Urban Zoo; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Urban Zoo, an award-winning technology company, is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to innovate and enhance its SaaS platform in the competitive sports sector. The role involves developing scalable solutions in collaboration with a talented agile team. Candidates should have extensive experience in backend development, strong proficiency in JavaScript and Typescript, and the ability to deploy solutions using Docker and AWS. This hybrid position allows for both in-office and remote work.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in back-end engineering, ideally in a SAAS or PAAS environment.
• Proficiency in JavaScript and Typescript.
• Experience with deployment tools like Docker and AWS.

Responsibilities

• Delivering products and features to new and existing solutions.
• Working closely with a focused team to develop scalable applications.
• Maintaining solutions in a live data environment.

Skills

JavaScript

Typescript

Test Driven Development

RESTful APIs

Amazon AWS

Docker

Git

Collaborative Problem Solving

Tools

Jenkins

Job description

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About Urban Zoo

Would you like to be part of an award-winning technology company working in the fast-paced world of sports?

Urban Zoo is a technology specialist focused on delivering market-leading web, app and streaming platforms for leading sports teams and federations throughout the UK and beyond. We run an owned and operated PAAS (platform as a service) solution for Sport Gamechanger.

Our clients include over 65+ global sporting brands across multiple sports, including Liverpool FC, Everton FC, the EFL and Celtic FC.

We are looking for a motivated Senior Backend Engineer looking to further their career in a high-paced sports world, working with and delivering products for some of the largest names in world sport. From e-commerce stores to sports-led content platforms.


Job Spec

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be experienced working with highly available and data-rich systems and have experience in a product-focused role. You’ll be working on solutions which are scalable and highly available, collaborative problem solving as part of a focused, talented team who have the opportunity to shape and evolve how our clients promote their brand and services to a global audience.

This is an opportunity to work on an existing industry-leading product, take on projects within that product, and develop your skills in the role. You will work directly with the head of Backend and will be part of an agile squad of motivated multi-discipline developers and designers.

The position is currently a hybrid model consisting of 2 days in the office and 3 days remote working.


Experience and Skills

You will be responsible for delivering products, features and improvements to both new and existing solutions and delivering features into the core PaaS product; Gamechanger.

Essential

• 5+ years of experience in a backend engineering capacity, ideally in a SAAS or PAAS environment
• Proficiency in JavaScript-led development languages
• Proficiency in Typescript
• Proficiency in Test Driven Development
• Strong understanding of NPM and other package managers, as well as ESBuild and other Typescript compilation tools
• Experience in developing and delivering solutions for a B2B ecosystem, including Highly scalable applications.
• Amazon AWS, Jenkins(CI/CD), Docker and micro-services experience
• Experience working in a live data environment
• Experience of tooling and practices for automated build, integration, and deployment
• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean, efficient and maintainable code
• Understanding of version control systems, particularly Git, and experience working collaboratively in a team environment
• Experience working with third-party libraries and SDKs
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English
• Experience working in a project delivery team
• Proficient in coming up with innovative solutions and problem-solving
  
  

Desirable

• Knowledge and interest in product development and continuous evolution methods.
• Experience with Agile and SCRUM, including stand-ups, retrospectives and refinement.
• An understanding of the cultural issues surrounding sports and the sports digital landscape
• Curiosity and an eagerness to learn
• Experience dealing with stakeholders of all sizes both internal and external
  

Personal Attributes

• The ability to build strong relationships with a team of executives, suppliers, designers and developers in Urban Zoo and externally.
• The ability to apply structured thinking in a creative environment and to be flexible in working patterns where necessary.
• A flexible, team-oriented approach with the ability to manage and act as a mentor to inexperienced team members as necessary.
• Ability to meet challenging deadlines.
• Proactive and understanding approach to working
• A proven ability to continually learn from past experience and pass on that insight.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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