Senior Software Engineer - AWS Cloud

shuttle; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Software Engineer, where your expertise will directly shape the technical vision and scalability of a leading platform. In this hands-on role, you'll contribute to building dependable, cloud-native systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users. Collaborate with both technical and non-technical teams to ensure customer success and uphold the highest standards of code quality. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in software engineering, focusing on scalable services on AWS.
• Expertise in building highly available and secure systems.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical vision and influence platform decisions.
• Scale the platform for high operability and observability.

Skills

Software Engineering

Communication Skills

Problem-Solving

Cloud-Native Architecture

Distributed Systems Diagnosis

Scalability and Performance

Growth Mindset

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD

React

Rust

Job description

Job Description:

This is a hands-on role, with the majority of your time dedicated to individual contribution.

1. Autonomy: you will be part of driving the technical vision for Shuttle, balancing current concerns with future opportunities and directions. You will be involved in platform decisions and have a direct and material influence on the company.
2. Scalability and Performance: Scale the Shuttle platform to hundreds of thousands of users ensuring a high level of operability and observability.
3. Code Quality: Uphold code best practices, maintainability, and documentation.
4. Customer Success: play a role in delivering successful outcomes for customers.

Must Haves:

• 3+ years of industry experience in a software engineering role, writing maintainable application code for scalable services on AWS
• Experience as a senior member of a startup/scale-up team.
• Ability to communicate and coordinate across both technical and non-technical teams.
• Expertise in how to build and operate highly available, scalable, cost-effective and secure systems (5+ yr). We want Shuttle to be dependable and serve as the rock on top of which our customers build their products bearing in mind a cloud platform is the foundation of a technology stack.
• Experience in cloud-native architecture as well as a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructural primitives (5+ yr).
• Experience diagnosing and root-causing issues with distributed web services
• Experience monitoring and maintaining applications in production, applying SRE & CI/CD best practices
• Experience with AWS (e.g ECS, Fargate, EC2, RDS, Networking, CloudWatch, S3, Glue, Athena, Lambda) (2+ yr)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Pulumi, Terraform) and continuous deployment to production using CI/CD best practices
• Able to pick up new technologies/skills and has a growth mindset with recent evidence.

Bonus points:

• Experience with front-end development (e.g React, Typescript)
• Experience using the Rust programming language, either professionally or on hobby projects
• Experience building or operating a platform as a service