Senior Back-End Software Engineer

Scale

XP is a ground-breaking early stage startup, with the ambitious goal of helping business leaders across the globe harness the power of their own data to make the best decisions for their companies. We are building the world’s leading business intelligence platform that seamlessly integrates disparate business systems to provide the most actionable and timely view of a company’s operations.

Scale

XPis well funded, with a product in the market and paying customers. To accelerate to the next phase, we would like to hire a back end engineer who can help us build new features and improve existing logic.

The Senior Back End Engineer will be responsible for implementing and thinking with the team about technical design of requested features. You will have a good understanding of existing logic, and provide input on how this can be modified when new features or bug fixes are requested. Even though this role can be executed fully remotely, willingness to relocate to London is a major plus.

Key areas of focus include:

• Implementing normalised domain bound data models.
• Writing integrations with third party APIs.
• Participate and contribute to technical design discussions with the team.
• Provide pragmatic solutions that will both suit current needs, and can be easily updated to fit future needs.
• Scope and estimate changes to the software.

Required skills

• 6+ years experience building web applications backend solutions - preferably with Django
• Proficiency with backend development methodologies
• Experience building ETL pipelines
• Experience with Postgres or similar RDBMS
• Experience with AWS infrastructure
• Excellent interpersonal skills and not afraid oftalking to the product team and contributing actively in team meetings
• Experiencemoving quicklyin a startup environment

Desired skills:

• Experience with Microservices and/or serverless architecture
• Experience with Docker, K8S
• Pre-existing understanding of the accountingdomain orCRM systems

Who are you

You’re passionate about technology and building great products, who relishes challenges and wants to have an impact beyond their role. We are a fast-paced company, committed to growing a formidable business. We will do so by delivering exceptional value to our clients and highlighting new and innovative ways for them to grow.

• Opportunity to join an amazing and committed team, which has already ‘walked through walls’ to deliver solutions to our customers
• The potential to have huge impact on thousands of companies across the UK (and later globally) by providing data insights, allowing them to better understand their data
• Opportunity to learn from highly experienced developers
• Remote working. Hybrid working in our London office is preferred.