Backend Staff Engineer, Attest
£100-125k
+ Share Options
2 days a week in office
Making consumer research simple
Job no longer available
Making consumer research simple
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£100-125k
+ Share Options
2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Making it simple and fast to uncover opportunity with consumer data.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll play a defining role in designing and scaling the systems that make our AI-driven research experiences faster, smarter, and more intuitive
- You will help brands understand and grow their audiences through high-quality insights. Our platform turns complex research challenges into fast, actionable insight. As a Backend Staff Engineer, you’ll architect and evolve the systems that make that possible, shaping how millions of data points become business-changing knowledge
- Play a key role in setting the direction of backend engineering as we continue to evolve our product positioning globally
- Drive Attest’s platform evolution, with a focus on quality improving reliability, scalability, and developer experience
- You’ll join a team where curiosity, inclusion, and empathy are part of the engineering DNA. Collaboration is genuine—people share knowledge, debate ideas openly, and celebrate each other’s wins
- You Embrace The Future by exploring new tools, architectures, and AI capabilities to keep at the forefront of innovation. You guide technical strategy and investment to ensure that your solutions are not just for today’s challenges but for tomorrow’s opportunities
- You identify and adopt emerging technologies that enhance scalability, performance, and developer productivity. You help others Embrace the Future by championing a mindset of innovation and curiosity, encouraging teams to experiment, learn, and adapt, encouraging others to think systemically and design solutions that will stand the test of time
- You are Outcome Focused by demonstrating the ability to lead and implement engineering efficiencies in a Principle, Staff, Architect role or an Engineering Manager looking to go back into a high level IC role, coming at problems with ‘First Principles’ thinking’
- You like to Win Together, embracing and valuing all perspectives to find the best process, solution or product for a wide variety of people with differing opinions, experiences and ideas
- You want to Win Together, leading by example and mentoring and coaching other members of the team to be successful
- You help others Win Together as you are a confident, clear communicator - sharing the what, the why and the how of what you are thinking and doing in all directions
- You have a passion for optimization and efficiency. You are Outcome Focused and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value
What the job involves
- We have an exciting opportunity for a Backend Staff Engineer who wants to be at the forefront of the AI revolution to help shape the future of the Engineering strategy - taking the team to the next level
- You’ll help to set the direction of backend engineering, be a key person in our AI capability development by navigating everything from decision making to implementation, whilst expertly supporting engineers to balance quality, rapid delivery and value with complexity
- Build upon and shape the future of our ambitious AI capability, architecting systems that scale, experimenting with new technologies, and defining best practices for integrating AI throughout our products and engineering stack
- Actively lead and contribute to squad discussions, offering your expertise and insights to help solve challenges and work towards solutions
- Lead by example by writing simple, reliable, and well-tested code that others are proud to build upon to make quality and excellence the default across every part of our platform
- Lead chapter meetings with positivity and purpose, providing dedicated 1:1 time with engineers to listen, understand, and offer constructive feedback
- Drive the performance of engineers, helping them grow into confident developers while sharing your experience and feedback
- Alongside the technology leadership team, build and refine Attest’s backend software delivery processes, ensuring they are scalable and efficient
- Collaborate with domain-specific engineering squads to deliver key platform features, ensuring alignment with the engineering and business strategy
- Drive improvements in engineering efficiency by identifying patterns, refining tooling, enhancing CI pipelines, and streamlining processes
- Take ownership of the definition of both public and private APIs, taking a hands-on approach to problem-solving
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Businesses are constantly seeking new ways to understand trends, grow in new markets, and explore innovations. However 99% of the questions businesses would love to explore go unanswered.
The steps required to launch a survey have typically been cumbersome. Attest have built a platform that is self-serve, and allows companies to ask targeted questions from a wide range of audiences.
The traditional research market is worth $76 billion, and yet it only serves a fraction of those who would benefit from fast and reliable consumer insights.
Attest is currently focused on larger customers such as Heineken, Boots, Samsung. They are also seeing demand from smaller players such as Monzo and Nutmeg, showing the size of the opportunity.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Employee endorsements
Nice people
"Fundamentally Attest is a *very* people first company. It really goes over and above looking after employees. I think this was really demonstrated..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Oct 2021
$60m
SERIES B
May 2020
$15m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $95.4m
Company benefits
- EMI share options in the company so that as the business succeeds, so do you!
- Benefits to support your career development and growth, including a career growth and development budget of £/$250 We’ll even give you £300/ $300 to set up your home office
- We offer benefits that support your physical and mental health. These include enhanced sick pay, and access to private and therapy through Spill
- Family-friendly policies from your first day of employment, such as enhanced parental leave with primary careers receiving 18 weeks fully paid leave and secondary careers receiving 4 weeks full pay. We also have a fertility treatment and family support policy which include paid leave for those going through treatment and their partners. Should the worst happen, we have a pregnancy loss policy with paid time off to support you through this time
- Spend up to 1 paid day per quarter – Give back days – giving back to your community or supporting your favourite charity
- An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed
- 25 days paid holiday per year, increasing to 26 after 3 years service and 27 after 4 years service. This is in addition to local public holidays and an additional average of 2 days off during the festive season. You can also take one month's fully paid sabbatical after 4 years service
- To help you save for your retirement, you’ll be auto-enrolled to our group pension plan through Penfold when you join. You can maximise your pension contribution through the salary sacrifice scheme
- Work from anywhere – spend up to 20 days per year working abroad +/-4 hours from London
Company values
- Outcome Focused
- Embrace The Future
- Win together
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Todd Latham
(CEO)Todd joined Attest in 2024 and he brings more than two decades of customer, product and marketing leadership experience at trailblazing brands including Microsoft and American Express.
People progressing
Alyssa joined Attest in 2020 as a Product Manager and after multiple promotions is now leading the function as Product Director.
Graham joined Attest in 2022 as a Sales Development Representative in the New York office, after 11 months was promoted to a Senior Sales Development Representative and was then quickly promoted to Account Executive.
Sam joined attest in 2019 and has progressed from a Client Experience Executive, to Head of Consumer Research to Director of Consumer Research to VP of Customer Success.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Attest
Emily Meiklejohn (Talent Lead )
- We actively embrace and value all perspectives and strive towards making our workplace diverse and our processes fair, equitable and free from bias.
- Examples of reasonable adjustments could include, more time for a task, asking for captions to be switched on during a video interview or asking for your interview to take time at a particular time of day because you are fasting, need to pray, take medication, need to do the school run or eat at a certain time. This list is not exhaustive so please get in touch to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
- We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach, where employees split their time between the office and their home / alternative place of work. You can find out how this works in practice by reviewing our Life at Attest Blog post: https://www.askattest.com/blog/life-at-attest/hybrid-and-flexible-working-at-attest
- We have a wide range of benefits designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees. We review our benefits annually as we understand that people's preferences may change.
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