Senior Software Engineer

Caribou; London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company focused on innovative solutions is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive technical excellence. The role demands deep engagement in both frontend and backend development, where you'll work closely with domain experts to enhance the user experience and business operations. You will enjoy benefits like a remote-friendly work environment, equity options, and health insurance.

Benefits

Remote friendly

Book subsidy

Option grants

Custom equipment setup

Health insurance

Pension contributions

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software engineering with frontend and backend.
• Experience in managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.
• Startup experience and data analysis for insights.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-stack monorepo and ensure engineering scalability.
• Design and maintain customer-facing applications.
• Drive architectural decisions across the tech stack.

Skills

Problem-solving

Analytical skills

Communication

Collaboration

Tools

React

Golang

SQL

Docker

AWS

Job description

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About you

We are looking for a startup-focused and experienced software engineer, who is keen on solving the real-world problems in an industry ripe for innovation.

• You excellent communication skills and think from first principles.
• You understand the start-up environment and embody “Move fast and break things”.
• You are endlessly curious and open-minded to working in new ways.
• You can learn quickly and have the capacity to deeply understand business operations.
• You’ve made significant contributions in your previous roles.
• You have experience communicating directly to product users to come up with business and technical requirements.
• You have the confidence to operate autonomously and understand when collaboration is required to drive the project forward.
• You proactively keep up with tech trends and want the opportunity to implement simple but powerful technologies to drive the company forward.
• You’ll be working closely with our VP of Engineering and domain knowledge experts to distill business discussions into technical requirements.

What you’ll do

• Fully own our full-stack monorepo to ensure that the engineering team can maintain velocity while scaling.
• Design, develop and maintain our customer-facing app and internal backoffice tool.
• Discuss requirements directly with our tax team to vertically design new features from frontend to backend and everything in between.
• Drive architectural decisions and optimise efficiency across the tech stack.
• Collaborate with other engineers as well as non-technical colleagues.
• Keep a keen eye on the customer experience to proactively raise issues and deploy fixes.
• Ship new features and fixes quickly.
• Play a leadership role by consistently innovating and developing a culture of excellence.

Technical requirements

• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• 5+ years writing production-ready code for frontend as well as backend.
• React (Typescript) + Golang
• 5+ years writing SQL (Postgres) for query optimisation, migrations and analysis.
• Experience with serverless applications, containerisation (e.g. Docker) and CI/CD.
• Experience in managing cloud services like Google Cloud and AWS.
• Startup experience.
• Data science / analyst experience - turning big data into meaningful insights.
• Experience building machine learning systems with LLMs, RAGs utilising embeddings.

Technology

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Company Benefits

• Remote friendly - We operate in a remote-friendly way, but enjoy meeting in person when it matters.
• Book subsid - We’ll invest in your big juicy brains by giving you access to interesting reads.
• Option grants - Everyone shares in the future success of Caribou with our generous options.
• Custom equipment setup - We’ll pay for the equipment you need to do your best work.
• AXA Health insurance - High quality health and dental insurance through AXA Insurance.
• Pension - We offer standard pension contributions to all employees.

Interview Process

• 15-30 minute intro call with Juan - CEO
• 15-30 minute call with Ryan - VP of Engineering
• 30-45 minute technical conversation
• 60-90 minute call involving a technical assessment
• 15-30 minute call to meet some of team and ask questions
• We make a decision - and share an offer if you’re successful

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology and Engineering

• Industries

  Software Development

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