Senior Backend Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing, developing and deploying backend services with a focus on high availability, fault tolerance, low latency and security. 
• Your team will take  full end to end responsibility of the services your team owns, from development through to production operation
• Collaboration with team members across multiple functional areas to ensure delivery of the best solutions for our customers.

Skills needed:

• Significant software engineering experience in one or more general purpose programming languages (we use Python)
• Great teamwork and communication skills in English, comfortable preparing high quality documentation and designs to aid understanding and knowledge sharing. 
• Understanding of microservice architectures, container based 12 factor apps and cloud native patterns around fault tolerance.
• Practical experience applying Domain Driven Design and understanding the principles behind building software that is testable, observable, reliable, and sustainable to maintain.
• Experience building contract first services and adopting patterns and frameworks to enable appropriate automated testing at unit, contract, service and end to end levels. 
• Experience building services that can be deployed on demand, quickly and with quality. Excellent understanding of CI/CD patterns and good practice. 
• Understands the role of high quality observability in building highly scalable and performant software
• Experience working with a public or private cloud vendor 
• Experience working in Finance / Investment is beneficial

Other requirements:

• A dedicated workspace 
• A reliable internet connection with the fastest speed possible in your area
• Devices and other essential equipment that meet minimal technical specifications
• Alignment with Our Values.