About the role
We're growing our technology team and looking for a Senior Software Engineer who believes that data and technology can empower people and change lives. This role offers the chance to shape both our engineering culture and the future of a mission driven company while developing your skills.
You’ll be working predominantly on the LIFT product, which delivers billions in support to the most vulnerable households in the country every year. Designing and building out new features under our Data Engineering Lead. You’ll have the opportunity to push best practice, cost-efficient architecture and optimise product delivery processes to ensure that LIFT continues to raise families up.
Key responsibilities
The role will involve a diverse range of activities, including:
- Working as a full stack engineer, including front end, back end, CICD, IaC and security, from maintenance and bug fixes to design and release of new features
- Advocating for best practices across broad swathes of engineering from moving the team off Git flow to trunk development, building AWS Code Pipelines with Synthetic Canary coverage to package management and code quality.
- Pushing the engineering team, growing team members, and helping the team as a whole work well with each other and the rest of the company
- Investing in and improving team skills and practices through co-mentoring, pairing, code review and leading by example
- Communication, stakeholder management and relationship building to support an engineering team that’s known as a trusted partner for marketing, sales, policy & operations and is an integral part of the business
- Contributing to technical discussions and scoping of work internally and occasionally with clients
- Ensuring the security of data entrusted to the organisation, minimising the risk of security breach, potential data loss or downtime, and engaging in post-mortems and follow-up when things do go wrong (or right)
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £65,000.00-£80,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Free fitness classes
- On-site gym
- Store discount
- Work from home
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London EC4Y 0DT
