Back End Developer

(hybrid working in our Hammersmith office, with free breakfast daily and gym membership)

We're a Tech scaleup in Europe and Asia with a mission to make the world fairer and more productive. We are doing this by making assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible - starting with real estate. See below for more info on our mission.

GetGround in numbers:

• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 90 GetGrounders (ex Google, Meta, Deliveroo etc)
• 🏘 £1.5Bn+ of assets being added onto our platform annually
• 📈 30,000+ users across 70 countries, with a 10% market share already
• 🌎 Global hubs (UK, Middle East, APAC)

You will join our team of 20+ developers on one of our cross functional Tech squads where you will work with product and design to create products that delight our users.

Our values sit at the core of GetGround - no BS, pursuit of excellence, feedback obsession and healthy ego.

Tech at GetGround is led by Evgenios as VP Engineering (former Engineering Director at Meta) and we have 3 Engineering Managers working across the dev teams 👉 more info on the Eng team here.

The role

A Backend Engineer at GetGround works on projects such as financial infrastructure, robust systems for high value transactions and company management. We primarily use Golang (don't worry, if you don't know Go yet we'll help you ramp up on it), deployed on Google Cloud. We care about thoughtful, tested, documented code that delivers excellence to our customers.

You will develop:

• Technical rigour through collaborative, multi-disciplinary and thorough refinement processes. We want hackers and painters!
• A challenger mindset - to implement new patterns and libraries, and to improve readability and efficiency

You will also...

• work with Golang, you'll build large-scale technology
• As part of a cross functional, collaborative team, participate in the entire application lifecycle, from architecting to development, testing and review
• Collaborate with Frontend devs to integrate user-facing elements with server side logic
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use

The skills and experience you will have:

• Computer Science degree (or similar)
• 18 months as a backend or fullstack engineer (Golang experience is NOT essential)
• Design and architecture practices, including in the context of large-scale web applications

👉 Our assessment process is documented here: https://rb.gy/d8bfek

We DO provide visa sponsorship for this role (we hire the best talent, regardless of visa status)

Our benefits

• 💰 Competitive salary
• 💰 Stock options
• 🏥 Private health
• 🏥 Private dental
• 🏖 12 Mental health days off annually (1 per month) PLUS holidays + public holidays
• 🫶 1 paid Community day off (paid day off to volunteer for a charitable cause)
• 🏡 Hybrid working (check details with your recruiter)
• 🥣 Free breakfast daily
• 🏋️ Free gym in the office building
• 🎳 Team and company-wide events
• 📈 360° performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development
• 🎤 Support for conferences and professional learning & development

What we do - in more detail

GetGround is developing the infrastructure for a global digital marketplace for assets enveloped in companies. Trillions of dollars of assets are tied in inefficient illiquid markets - think property, ships, factory machinery & infrastructure to name a few.

Diversity & inclusion at GetGround

GetGround encourages applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are focussed on and committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.