Orchestra
Backend Software Engineer
OrchestraUnited Kingdom7 hours ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyEngineering, Information Technology

Summary

  • Salary band £100k-120k + equity
  • Hybrid working policy: Mandatory minimum three days a week in our Waterloo office
  • Experience level: At least five years in commercial software engineering


🚀 About Orchestra

Orchestra is an AI-native data pipelining platform building the future of data orchestration observability. We have built a declarative framework allowing data engineers to explicitly declare how their data pipelines behave. Think CI/CD but for data teams!


Backed by VCs from San Francisco, New York and London with angels from across the data space and beyond.


👷Engineering at Orchestra

  • We care deeply about our users—their pain points and experience
  • We're a small team of generalists who embrace new challenges regularly
  • We're united by our mission, focused execution, and speed
  • We deploy to production multiple times a day


🛠️Tech Stack

  • Backend: Python (FastAPI) + Typescript (express)
  • Frontend: React + Typescript
  • Infrastructure: AWS (serverless!), terraform
  • Containerisation: Docker
  • Database: PostgreSQL + DynamoDB
  • CI/CD: GitHub actions + Blacksmith runners


🖥️What You'll Do

  • Build exceptional product and scale the core experience
  • Implement and maintain features across the full stack (with focus on the backend)
  • Own systems end-to-end
  • Collaborate closely with customers
  • Drive the full development lifecycle
  • Contribute to shaping our culture and strategy


🙋 About you

  • 5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack products.
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Concrete understanding of system design and scalable backend systems.
  • Proficiency in React + TypeScript or a willingness to learn and contribute to frontend experiences.
  • Fast, resourceful, and opinionated - you know when to ship and when to conduct an experiment.
  • Demonstrated experience working in a cloud environment


Benefits‍

  • Competitive salary + equity
  • Bi-annual offsite
  • Regular team dinners + socials
  • Choice of laptop

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