Senior Software Engineer

The Opportunity

As our Senior Software Engineer, you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by developing services and infrastructure for our global, multi-tenant SaaS platform.

You will cooperate with engineers working across the product to deliver new, cross-cutting functionality and to maintain and update existing systems. Working with internal stakeholders to understand and specify product requirements. You will work with and become knowledgeable about cloud infrastructure and managed cloud services, writing and monitoring automated tests to ensure the correct functionality of systems owned by your team.

This role requires participation in an on-call rota to support the production services owned by your team (including out-of-hours support where required).

We have offices in both London and Cambridge, so ideally you will be within a commutable distance of either office, and be happy to come in 3 times a week. If you’re interested in the role but require more flexibility, please speak to us!

Day to Day

• Deliver or design new features in accordance with good architectural practices and informed by an up-to-date knowledge of the industry
• Take a technical lead position in project work, investigations and feasibility studies
• Be aware of how the team’s work fits within the company’s technical objectives
• Share responsibility for the effectiveness of engineering operations within the team
• Monitor and advocate for good engineering practices amongst team members
• Ability to lead development of cross-functional features with wide impact across various stakeholders
• Act as a point of contact for other teams
• Maintain a high level of knowledge of the team’s areas of responsibility and its contracts with other teams

About you

Must haves:

• Demonstrable experience working as a software engineer or in a similar role
• Experience working with modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• Comfortable learning and working with multiple programming languages
• Strong experience of common automated testing practices
• Confident writing object-oriented code, preferably in Java

Great to haves:

• Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for production workloads
• Knowledge of common large-scale data processing and storage technologies
• Experience with RESTful (or other) API design
• Message queueing systems
• Hands-on experience with AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience with NoSQL query design

Equal Opportunities

Here at Featurespace we are committed to being a place of equality, inclusion and respect to provide a safe environment for you to bring your authentic self to work. We know that we gain as much strength from our differences as we do our similarities. We value diversity and are dedicated to listening and learning from each other to build and maintain a positive and productive culture. We appreciate this will be an ever-evolving focus for the business to ensure everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging.