Senior Software Engineer

Peregrine; York and North Yorkshire; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Unlimited PTO

Competitive 401k

Wellness stipend

HSA

Parental leave

Professional development

Recreational perks

Job summary

Peregrine is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering teams. You’ll work cross-functionally with design and product management to build systems that are robust, scalable, and user-centered.

You’ll own major features, drive them to completion, and collaborate with deployment teams to iterate on secure, compliant solutions. The stack includes Python, Django, React, Kafka and cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience with cross-functional software teams.
• Experience shipping production-grade components.
• Degree in CS or related field, or equivalent.
• Experience with scalable distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own large portions of the application from start to finish.
• Design scalable permission systems for data access across organizations.
• Architect frameworks for secure collaboration and data sovereignty.
• Collaborate with design and product management to deliver robust software.

Skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership

Mentorship

Problem solving

Strong communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Python

Django

Celery

Airflow

Kafka

React

Redux

Mapbox

PostgreSQL

Elasticsearch

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

• As an engineering team, we believe strongly that empathy improves our solutions
• Seeing how people use the product is a priority and the way we get to the right answer
• Engineers will have the opportunity to work closely with our team onsite to understand the variety of use cases that Peregrine serves
• We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our core engineering teams
• You’ll work cross-functionally with design and product management to build systems that are robust, scalable, and user-centered
• Our teams tackle a range of challenges, from enabling real-time user collaboration on detailed maps to building high-scale backend architecture for ingesting billions of data points
• We value both ownership and collaboration—you will take full responsibility for major features and work closely with other engineers to drive them to completion
• We believe that humility and empathy are essential for building the right solutions—you will collaborate directly with our deployment team and users as we iterate to solve their problems
• Perseverance and creativity are crucial to executing our vision
• We are looking for strong developers to join our small but growing team
• As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll have vast ownership across our stacks, making decisions that will have an outsized impact for years to come
• You’ll take on some of our most complex challenges—like designing scalable permission systems to manage access to terabytes of data across thousands of organizations
• You’ll help build intuitive controls that let organizations decide what data to share, when to share it, and with whom
• You’ll also architect frameworks for secure collaboration, enabling seamless partnerships while maintaining data sovereignty and compliance
• And you’ll create advanced sharing mechanisms that strike the right balance between openness and security to unlock the full potential of cross-organizational collaboration
• Our stack is constantly evolving but based on a backend foundation of Python, Django, Celery, Airflow, and Kafka
• A frontend built in React, Redux, and Mapbox; data stores including PostgreSQL and Elasticsearch
• Machine learning models hosted in Bedrock and Sagemaker; and with AWS, Pulumi, Terraform, and Kubernetes as our underlying infrastructure

Benefits

• Health insurance: Enjoy top-notch health, dental, and vision insurance. Your health matters
• Unlimited PTO: Assume responsibility for how much time you take off. Trust is everything
• Competitive 401k: Leverage a Peregrine-sponsored 401k plan. And think of your future
• Wellness stipend: Use Peregrine’s wellness stipend to focus your body and mind
• HSA: Set aside money to pay for qualified medical expenses with a HSA
• Parental leave: Because we want to support the Peregrine parents out there
• Professional development: Access a range of professional development courses and resources
• Recreational perks: Enjoy a whole host of travel and leisure discounts, and explore new things

• Thrive on ambiguity and love taking on hard problems
• Desire and drive to own large portions of the application from start to finish
• Passion for crafting and shipping software solutions that delight users
• Excellent technical vision with the ability to synthesize product requests into strong and reliable software components
• Ability to write robust, well tested, and well-designed code that frequently gets deployed to users
• Strong best practices in modern software development and comfort navigating large codebases
• Located in NYC and open to working in office
• 4+ years of experience working with cross-functional software development teams
• Experience shipping and iterating on production-grade software components professionally and / or in the open-source community
• Solid understanding of architecting and scaling distributed software systems
• Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience