Senior Engineer

CybSafe; Greater London; Remote; GBP 76,000 - 92,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock option plan

Professional development time and预算

Home setup budget

25 days paid holiday + bank holidays

Extra time off allowances: birthday, 1

Job summary

CybSafe is seeking a senior software engineer to own product features end to end, from problem shaping to production. You'll work within a small autonomous squad alongside product, design, and science teams, guiding roadmap conversations in ambiguity.

The ideal candidate has strong Python experience, relational database know-how, and a proactive, data-driven mindset. This is a fully remote UK-based role with mandatory in-person meetups twice a year.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent software development experience.
• Strong experience with Python or similar modern programming language.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Proactive and self-driven - you spot the problem, scope it, and pull in the people you need.
• Curious, and you back your assumptions with data.
• Great communicator, in writing and aloud, able to explain technical risk to non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluent using AI tools in the SDLC.
• Commitment to self growth & care.
• Experience mentoring/coaching other engineers.

Responsibilities

• Owning medium to large customer problems end to end, shipping solutions that deliver customer value, and making pragmatic trade-offs to get there.
• You'll be curious and ask insightful questions about customers, product value, and how we fit into the market, to inform better product and engineering decisions.
• Using AI tools across the development lifecycle, with a considered view of where they help and where they don't.
• Ability to keep the code and architecture simple, and identifying and correcting unnecessary complexity and sloppy abstractions.
• Mentoring & building skills in the team: regular hackdays, learning new things, everyone is involved.
• You work effectively in a team, by reviewing generously, mentoring without being asked, and leaving things better than you found them.

Skills

Python

Relational databases

AI in SDLC

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Proactive

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Django

React

Job description

About CybSafe

Every day an unsuspecting colleague, friend, or family member is targeted by criminals. In the United Kingdom, 4.6 million people are affected by fraud annually, and around 700,000 will suffer profoundly as a result. Globally, the problem is even worse.

About the job

You'll own product features end to end - from shaping the problem through to production. We're looking for someone who thinks in products rather than tickets, and who will tell us when the technical plan and the customer outcome have drifted apart.

As part of the Software Engineering team, you will work closely with the product team, engineers, designers and scientists in a small autonomous squad.

This is a senior role within our team. So if you're already leading on ambiguous, high-complexity work and shaping roadmap conversations, say so - we want to hear it.

This is a fully remote UK-based role, with at least two mandatory in-person meetups per year.

What you'll be doing

• Owning medium to large customer problems end to end, shipping solutions that deliver customer value, and making pragmatic trade-offs to get there.
• You'll be curious and ask insightful questions about customers, product value, and how we fit into the market, to inform better product and engineering decisions.
• Using AI tools across the development lifecycle, with a considered view of where they help and where they don't.
• Ability to keep the code and architecture simple, and identifying and correcting unnecessary complexity and sloppy abstractions.
• Mentoring & building skills in the team: We run regular hackdays, we spend time learning new things, everyone is involved!
• You work effectively in a team, by reviewing generously, mentoring without being asked, and leaving things better than you found them.

Our ideal candidate

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field; or equivalent experience in software development
• Strong experience in Python or similar modern programming language
• Experience with relational databases
• Proactive and self-driven - you spot the problem, scope it, and pull in the people you need
• Curious, and you back your assumptions with data. When someone asks "why do you think that?", you have an answer that isn't a hunch
• Great communicator, in writing and out loud. You can explain a technical risk to someone in Customer Success or Legal without patronising them or losing them
• Fluent using AI tools in the SDLC
• Commitment to self growth & care
• Experience mentoring/coaching other engineers

Experience that would be a bonus:

• Strong experience in Python, Django, and Django REST framework
• Frontend experience with TypeScript and React
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, distributed system design, and how to take software to production
• Experience in developing and maintaining fast, scalable and well-documented APIs
• Good experience in designing data models for relational databases
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Stock option plan
• Professional development time and budget
• Home setup budget
• 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays
• Extra time off allowances: birthday, Christmas, volunteering etc.

Other

• Salary 80k GBP
• Must be based in and have unrestricted right to work in the UK
• No recruitment agencies at this time