Senior Backend Engineer

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Backend Engineer to join Attest and help us build the future of the Attest product. You’ll be at the heart of building exciting new features and will to help maintain and raise our standards.

You’ll be working in a cross functional product squad, with Product, Design and Data Science on a modern tech stack, including: Java, Kafka, Postgres as well as integrations with our external providers. Our cross-functional teams collaborate with stakeholders across the business to help deliver value to our customers.

Salary

We are able to offer between £85-105K depending on experience.

In person and remote working balance

We embrace a flexible hybrid work model. While we don't mandate specific office days, we encourage Attesters to work on-site 1-2 days per week, typically Tuesdays and Thursdays. This approach allows us to collaborate in person, while ensuring enough time remotely for deep, focussed work. Learn more about our hybrid working philosophy here.

What you’ll be doing…

• As a Backend Engineer, you will work within a squad collaborating with the whole team to identify and create best-in-class products.
• Improve engineering efficiency by looking at patterns, tooling, CI and processes
• Participate in planning, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Coach and collaborate with other engineers alongside regular work
• Design and implement highly efficient architecture that scales for our data and user demand.
• Explore innovative ways to solve problems, and become an expert in complex systems.
• Deliver features regularly, be comfortable with ambiguity, and push for code quality while balancing pace vs perfection.
• Play an active part in our backend chapter.

What’s in it for you…

• Would like the autonomy to find the best solutions that deliver value to customers
• Want to rapidly deliver valuable software both internally and externally
• Prefer simplicity over complexity in software systems
• Are passionate about working with other engineers and cross-functional teams

Amazing benefits…

• Work from anywhere in the world up to 80 days a year
• 25 days holiday per year plus additional festive days
• £40 monthly wellbeing budget
• £240 yearly L&D budget, plus access to a larger budget for qualifications and courses
• Private Medical Insurance
• 2 days per-month to do charity or community work
• Enhanced parental leave (18 weeks paid leave for Primary carer)
• Up to 12 weeks paid leave for premature births and neonatal care
• Paid leave for IVF and fertility treatment and pregnancy loss
• Share options

We’d love to hear from you, if…

You align with and actively embody our core values, which are more than just words—they are the foundation of everything we do. Our values drive our decisions, shape our culture, and define who we are as a team. Learn more about them here. Specifically this means:

• You love being Outcome Focused and use data and feedback to solve problems,
• You are output focussed, by demonstrating the ability to implement engineering efficiencies in a Backend or Senior Backend role.
• You Win Together ,embracing and valuing all perspectives to find the best process, solution or product for a wide variety of people with differing opinions, experiences and ideas.
• You want to Win Together, by setting an example
• You are a confident, clear communicator - sharing the what, the why and the how of what you are thinking and doing in all directions.
• You have a passion for optimization and efficiency. You're not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value.
• You Embrace The Future and help bring others along with you.

This role might not be for you if …

• You are concerned with structure, every opinion at Attest is just as loud and valued
• You prefer to work in a silo and not collaborate with those outside of your squad/function
• You prefer to build with large amounts of complexity, we value simplicity and delivering impact
• You prefer to have a set way of working and do not want to embrace changes to your style