Senior Software Engineer (Go) at Redbrain - Remote/Birmingham, United Kingdom

Salary £60000 to £80,000 a year
Company Website https://redbrain.com

Job Description

We’re looking for a full-stack developer/software engineer who wants to do something extraordinary. We take pride in pushing the boundaries of engineering, technology and customer experience.

You’ll have a passion for great coding, an ability to plan out and work with high volumes of data to join our growing team of existing developers!

All in all, we process over 4 billion products daily, throwing up a volume, depth and complexity of data that few can match. And through the insights gained, we build scalable, high-performance products using cutting-edge technology that drive forward online retail growth.

Redbrain, Europe’s biggest Google Shopping partner. We’re absolutely smashing it in the UK and across Europe last year alone driving over £500 million in incremental sales to over 5,000 retailers.

This is an opportunity to join a team of talented problem solvers, looking at untangling complex problems and finding simple solutions. Through your work, you will have a direct impact on how the world’s leading retailers grow their online sales.

We believe engineers write code for other engineers and not just for machines, therefore we celebrate clean and smart code!

If you’re keen to support us on our mission to build the world’s best incremental sales engine, take a look at what we have on offer.

Job is linked to our Birmingham office, we’re Remote first with 1 office day every two weeks.

Here are a few of the tools and methodologies we utilise:

Infrastructure: GCP, Kubernetes, Microservices

Platform: Elasticsearch, PostgresDB, Vault, PubSub, GCS, Spanner

Tools: GRPC, Protobuf, Terraform, Gitlab, Kibana, Golang

Ways of working: Agile, Scrum, Pair Programming

The role:

As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll be part of one of our Engineering teams, creating great products by interpreting and following best practice architectural and engineering principles, operating frameworks, and new and improved tech applications and solutions.

You’ll own the design and development of large-scale high-performance services using technologies such as Golang & Kubernetes.

You will be a great team player, providing and seeking useful feedback from other members of their team, and seeking opportunities to help out within the wider business.

The software engineer will be able to manage their own workload, estimate tasks well and prioritise when issues arise.

We’re looking for someone who cares deeply about building flawless product features while challenging our thinking on software architecture.

You’ll constantly strive to improve the way things are done in your team, contributing as a progressive member of the engineering team.

Someone with a passion for building performant and reliable systems, and is always up for a challenge.

We’re looking for engineers with:

  • Possess programming language expertise in one or more languages, such as Go,Java, C++, C#, Python or Typescript with a passion for learning new languages.
  • Expertise in engineering practice, including knowledge of engineering and architectural principles
  • Proven experience of software design and implementation, security, cloud, infrastructure as code and CI/CD and any relevant hardware
  • Self-drive and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers
  • Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies
  • A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence curiosity in emerging tech
  • Display empathy and understanding in supporting colleagues in the team to deliver

**As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get: **

  • Competitive salary (up to £80,000 dependant on experience)
  • Remote-first environment
  • Company pension
  • Group life assurance of 10x fixed annual salary up to £500,000 cover
  • Training budget for internal and external training and conferences
  • 25 days holiday plus all Public UK holidays
  • The very latest tools & tech
  • Flexible working hours

NO AGENCIES - Please note we do not accept applications from agencies. We will treat all CV’s submitted as Direct Applicants.