Staff Software Engineer

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Job Title: Fullstack Engineer

Location: Remote – UK (Ideally based in London)

Contract Duration: 12 months (with potential extension)

Interview Process: 2-stage process

1st stage Technical Interview - 45 mins - Remote Whiteboard Session - 2x Engineers

2nd Stage Behavioural Interview - 45 mins - Hiring Manager - 45 mins

Responsibilities

• Maintain backend APIs and integrations with 3rd party vendors.
• Build new AI agent supporting APIs to help support better interviewing and qualification verification of workers.
• Migrate complex concepts from a monolithic Ruby on Rails app to standard Indeed service-oriented technology stack(s), typically Java Spring-boot OR Python Django.
• Fearless of technologies, frameworks, and languages.
• Drive requirements and display ownership of large, complex projects or systems. Manage stakeholders across multiple projects and communicate consistently and proactively.
• Guide teams through designing and building large, complex, and reusable systems. Ensure systems are designed to be simple, maintainable, and scalable.
• Drive code quality for projects and guide others in performing code reviews. Ensure code passes standards for cleanliness, reliability, and functionality.

Skills/Competencies

• Demonstrated polyglot ability and an eager willingness to jump into any code base. In particular, familiarity with Python/django, or Java, Spring Boot and Ruby/rails are strongly desired. Any experience in Rust will also be strongly considered.
• Breaking apart monoliths, utilizing contextually appropriate strategies.
• Strong communication skills to manage stakeholders and coordinate execution across multiple teams.
• Exceptional ability to solve problems both in code and outside of code.
• Passion for developer productivity and staying up-to-date with AI advancements.