Senior software engineer, Seccl

• Have a strong ability to understand business requirements and turn this into efficient, scalable solutions. Desire to learn our business domain
• Experience in a strongly/statically typed language
• Have a strong understanding of designing, building, and running high-quality, standards-compliant workflow APIs, with a focus on testing, observability, and performance
• Have worked with a cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Have worked with distributed systems and are comfortable debugging through tracing and observability
• Willing to be on-call for your services
• Have experience in a build-and-run model

Desirable

• The purpose of this role is to design, build and operate reliable and scalable software solutions, building new functionality using Typescript and Node.js
• You play a key role in our software development and have a hands-on approach throughout the development process
• As a senior member of the team, you are the ‘go-to’ person for queries
• Work collaboratively in a domain aligned cross-functional squad made up of engineers and product along with colleagues from customer-facing and operations teams
• Design, implement and operate your services within your domain
• Be accountable for the SLAs of your products and iterative improvements
• Maintain and extend documentation for your services
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence while understanding when “good enough for now” is appropriate
• Provide guidance and mentorship for more junior engineers
• Communicate with non-technical colleagues to answer queries about the Seccl system
• To own your services from design to operation. We operate a build-and-run model where engineers have autonomy but full accountability
• Engineers are not passengers in their products but champions. Drive improvements and features while being comfortable to openly collaborate and investigate ideas and being challenged

• Interviewing is a two-way thing, and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you. Our interviews are conversational, so come with questions and be curious. In general, you can expect the interview process to look a bit like this, (following an initial chat with one of our Talent team):
• First stage – one-hour system design interview with two of our senior+ engineers
• Small take home task, 1-2 hours (feel free to use AI)
• Second stage – one-hour technical debrief of the take home task and questions about previous engineering experience
• Final stage – 45 mins bar-raiser culture-based interview
• ⏳ We’ll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don’t miss out and you should expect to hear back from us within one to two weeks of applying