Software Engineer

• Hands-on experience in software engineering, with experience or interest in building and deploying services and data engineering.
• Experience being part of a high-growth startup or tech company.
• Clear communication (in English).
• Location: Remote but UK/Central European time zone is required.

Translucent is building a compound startup for finance and accounting professionals. We’re spearheading a new approach to building and designing products that means our value to the user compounds with each additional app that we deliver. It also means that for this first phase of our growth, speed to delivery is key. We iterate quickly to learn rapidly while maintaining high quality in everything we do.

• You’ll join the founding and experienced Engineering team of an exciting new data/no-code startup, with funding in place, and validated customer demand.
• You will have the opportunity to set up core end-to-end data services, building on a combination of internal models and external services. This will support both rapid experimentation and production integration with Software Engineering, Data Engineering and Business Intelligence services.
• You’ll work on expanding and developing our product alongside our Platform Software Engineering team by building out middleware, internal APIs and have a hand in making decisions about our development practices.
• You’ll collaborate with engineering teams to identify and develop optimal cloud solutions.
• You will ensure efficient functioning of data storage and process functions in accordance with company security policies and best practices in cloud security.
• You’ll identify, analyse, and resolve infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• You will be working with financial and accounting data from source through to the myriad applications of the data.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in software engineering, with experience building out complex data services along with the infrastructure they require.
• Experience with data oriented software development, including knowledge of modern development practices.
• Experience in deploying production-standard code (including Python and SQL on cloud).
• Experience with Cloud services (e.g. GCP - Apache, Beam, Vertex, Spanner, event-driven architectures, pub-sub).
• Experience with some of the following DevOps tools: BQ, pubsub, k8s, heroku or similar and terraform.
• Experience with managing, versioning and deploying production ML models.
• Knowledge of Cloud Security best practices.
• Experience in integrating applications and transferring data.
• Experience in effectively bridging communications between Data Engineering and Software Engineering teams.
• Experience being part of a high-growth startup or tech company.
• Recognised by your colleagues as being excellent at your job and someone that people want to work with.
• Curious and passionate about your work.
• Clear communication (in English) and ability to work well with others in a distributed team.

• Experience with Typescript.
• Interest or experience in Data Engineering (ETL, Fivetran, Hightouch, Snowflake).
• Experience with other cloud-native languages such as Go or Rust

Benefits

• Salary: Up to £80k p.a. + option package.
• Holidays: 23 days p.a. + the days between Christmas & New Year + Public Holidays.
• Location: Remote, but based in UK/European time zone.
• Pension Contributions.

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