Sr Backend Software Engineer

Qatalog is the world’s first Intelligent Work Hub. Our mission is to allow every business to work the way it wants, with bespoke software that centralizes people, processes and knowledge. Qatalog is the first company to use generative AI to build software products customized to any business, in seconds. We’re backed by top tier investors like Atomico, Mosaic, and Salesforce Ventures, as well as the founders of Indeed, Wise, Eventbrite and execs from Twilio, Adyen and AngelList.

The team

We're a passionate, experienced, and compassionate team with former Amazon, Google, Mozilla, and Wise alumni (among others) pioneering new working practices. You’ll join a collaborative group of professionals from many different backgrounds, who’ve built and scaled large teams and products. Our engineering team uses the latest technology and develops on a foundation of best practices including architectural decision records (ADRs) in our monorepo, gitflow for our CI/CD pipelines, and a solid base of automation.

The technology

ES6, GraphQL/Apollo server, Postgresql, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker, Google Cloud

If your experience doesn’t align with ours, that’s not a concern. We do care about how adaptable you are at applying your knowledge to new problems. We work in an environment conducive to talented engineering polyglots; language is an implementation detail.

Requirements

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of delivering scalable, maintainable solutions across the entire stack. As a key engineering figure, you’ll have a great foundation of best practices and demonstrate a drive to continually learn and mentor those around you. You will own the design, development, and support of core product features and prototypes from idea to delivery into production. You will be sensitive to the goals of the company, establishing engineering goals collaboratively with stakeholders along with the work-back plans to achieve them. You will proactively nurture the talent in your area, collaborating with them to enhance their skillset. You will also continually assess the current and long term infrastructure needs for the organisation looking around corners for unknowns and creating a proactive strategy and operating plan.

Key responsibilities

You will be responsible for establishing best practices for technical architecture, quality control, scalable design and modularity of the codebase. This includes tooling strategies, operational excellence concerns, code reviews etc. You will also establish the processes and set the bar for client engineering, performance and code quality, and enable extensibility of engineering solutions by ensuring the team builds clean, extensible and modular components.

Minimum qualifications:

• BS or MS in an engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience
• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English

Preferred qualifications:

• Extensive experience building highly available, scalable applications
• Experience in a startup environment
• Demonstrated proficiency at back-end and database tiers
• Demonstrated proficiency with improving developer experience (ie: core infrastructure, developer build processes, Storybook, etc)
• Demonstrated proficiency with serverless architectures at scale

Benefits

• Competitive salary benchmarked to location
• Meaningful stock options
• 25 days annual holidays
• Premier health insurance
• Vision/Dental insurance
• Mental Health & Physiotherapy cover
• MacBook and accessories, along with a remote setup allowance
• A remote first company headquartered in London (Shoreditch)

More can be found on qatalog.com/about

Qatalog is an equal opportunity employer

We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to maintain a diverse and inclusive workforce. We understand that our teams’ geographic locations can affect their ability to work with us, which is why we have partnered with Deel, a global employment services platform, to manage our international hiring processes.

As such, we are only able to hire in locations supported by Deel . This ensures that our team are supported with the appropriate legal and tax compliance in their respective countries. Any location not supported by Deel will unfortunately not be considered at this time.

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