Senior Backend Software Engineer (9 Month Contract)

InfoSum; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data collaboration platform in Basingstoke is seeking an experienced Senior Engineer with a focus on Golang and a passion for problem-solving. You will join a collaborative team, working on complex systems and delivering innovative solutions. Ideal candidates have over 7 years of backend engineering experience, with knowledge in microservices and various technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. The role offers a flexible work environment within a supportive team culture.

Benefits

Fully stocked fridge/snacks

Catered lunches twice a week

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional software development experience.
• Strong focus on Backend engineering.
• Experience in solving large and complex application development problems.

Responsibilities

• Create, enhance, and perfect systems in a microservices architecture.
• Deliver software services and products using patented database technology.
• Work collaboratively in an agile team environment.

Skills

Golang

Microservices architecture

Problem solving

Agile development

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

Kafka

TypeScript

NodeJS

React

Job description

InfoSum is the world’s leading data collaboration platform. The world’s largest enterprise businesses use InfoSum to collaborate across data sources and deliver richer customer experiences that prioritise consumer privacy. Our vision is to unlock data’s limitless potential, by enabling the world’s data to be connected but never shared. Off the back of our Series B funding of $65 million in 2021, we are investing in our people and teams.

As a people-first organisation, we can offer you the personal and professional flexibility needed to get the job done, to grow with us, and help challenge the status quo. If you want to work with a business that encourages collaboration, champions the idea that the sum is greater than its parts, then we want to hear from you.

About you

You will be an established Senior Engineer with a diverse Backend focused skill set. We would ideally like to see a strong focus with Golang as your primary language but if you have a polyglot approach to engineering across a range of backend languages and some exposure to Go, the you could be a great fit for us. You will be able to create, enhance and perfect systems and functions within a microservices architecture, complex systems built platform and help us deliver a new range of solutions and features stretching out across 2025 and beyond.

We prioritise aptitude not knowledge, although we would like to see experience of solving large and complex problems in an application development domain. We look for people that can add value to our teams in a multitude of ways and we champion the idea of collaboration, so we look for individuals who can work in smaller, focused teams but can tackle any challenge presented to them.

We are looking for people with a focus on delivering solutions to our customers, a genuine passion for problem solving, coding, and who enjoy being challenged. An interest in Data Science would be an advantage but is not essential. Experience with working in agile teams and CI/CD environments is beneficial.

You will joining a highly talented and motivated team delivering software services and products built on patented database technology. You will have at least 7 years of professional software development experience, with a focus on Backend engineering.

We would like you to sync with our backend tech stack, which currently comprises of a micro-service architecture built using:

• Go
• Protobuf
• gRPC
• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• Kafka
• Docker
• Full CI and fully automated deployments using Kubernetes and Ansible to multiple cloud providers

We are committed to using the best technology for the task at hand. Other technologies used within the wider team include TypeScript, NodeJS, React. The DevOps approach is important with the development team expected to be able to monitor and debug their code in production.

As well as working as part of an amazing, engaging and collaborative team, we offer our staff a wide range of benefits to motivate them to be the best they can be!

We have fantastic offices in Basingstoke and London complete with a fully stocked fridge / snacks and catered lunches 2 times a week.