Software Engineer

The Opportunity

As our 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 new features with some supervision: from specification, through development, and into final deployment
• Be aware of how your work fits in with the team’s area of responsibility and contributes to the team’s goals
• Perform code reviews
• Communicate progress regularly whilst identifying any blocking issues and escalating where required
• Build and maintain good knowledge of the team’s area of responsibility and engineering processes
• Contribute to and working on cross-functional features and bugs
• Provide input into future technological development and improvements to your team’s workflow

About you

Must haves:

• Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
• Experience working with modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
• Comfortable working with large codebases
• Comfortable learning and working with multiple programming languages
• Knowledge of common automated testing practices
• Experience with object-oriented programming, 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.