Senior Software Engineer, Bezos
UK eCommerce fulfilment service
Job no longer available
UK eCommerce fulfilment service
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help e-commerce businesses grow, by taking care of their fulfilment and logistics headaches.
Role
Who you are
- You have 2+ years of experience working in a senior software engineering role in a startup environment
- You possess strong backend fundamentals and deep commercial experience with Go
- You have extensive experience with AWS, event driven architecture and serverless infrastructure like AWS Lambda
- You are experienced in designing and working with RESTful APIs and have a strong understanding of microservice and serverless architectures
- You are familiar with and eager to use modern AI-powered development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) to enhance productivity and are willing to experiment with them daily
- You are a pragmatic builder with a knack for simplifying complex systems and building scalable solutions
- You have a product-oriented mindset and care deeply about solving user problems
- Previous experience in e-commerce or logistics is a plus but not strictly required
- Commercial experience with Go - or willingness to learn on the job
- Start-up experience is highly desirable
- AWS - including Lambda and event-driven architecture
What the job involves
- We are looking for a hands-on Senior Software Engineer to become a cornerstone of our engineering team
- Reporting directly to the Head of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and delivering the core components of our platform
- This is a high-impact position in a fast-moving startup with excellent career progression opportunities, where you will not only write production-grade code but also mentor other engineers, influence technical decisions, and help shape our engineering culture and best practices
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable and secure components and APIs within our serverless cloud environment using predominantly Go and React
- Take ownership of key domain-specific services, from architectural design through to deployment, monitoring, and investigating and fixing root causes of issues
- Collaborate closely with product, operations, and other engineers to translate business strategy and user needs into a clear technical roadmap
- Champion engineering excellence by improving development workflows, testing, deployment, and observability
- Mentor other engineers, providing technical guidance through code reviews, pair programming, and design discussions
- Lead by example in writing clean, simple, maintainable, and well tested production code
- Our Tech Stack:
- Core Language: Go, React
- Cloud Provider: AWS (Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, EC2, Cognito, CloudWatch)
- Database: PostgreSQL
- IAC: Terraform
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Bezos.ai was founded to make a difference for the increasing number of companies selling online. It provides a one-stop-shop for eCommerce logistics, allowing sellers to eliminate the hassle of handling storage, last-mile delivery, returns, and fulfilment. This reduces their operational complexity and allows businesses to focus on sales and growth.
Bezos isn't alone in riding the eCommerce wave, with a host of competing third party logistics providers offering similar services. However, it stands apart with its wide range of integrations, supporting more than 30 eCommerce platforms, while offering real time order tracking and 2 hour ticket response time as standard. It also has fulfilment centres across the UK and Europe, allowing for rapid delivery and returns across a far larger territory than the competition.
It does this while focusing on sustainability. The company has received grants from the UK government for green delivery, green packaging as well as tools for sustainable fulfilment. Bezos is committed to helping clients with delivery options and speed whilst also reducing waste and emissions, and this has helped it compete and grow steadily in an increasingly crowded marketplace.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (1 round)
Jan 2020
$1m
GRANT
Total funding: $1m
Company benefits
- Have the ability to shape your role and the company
- Experience a workplace that is entrepreneurial, fast-paced, solution-focused, disciplined, team-oriented and fun
- Flexible working to support families and varying needs. Fully remote
- Competitive compensation package and generous stock options
- Unlimited holidays
- Pension scheme
- Team-wide face to face events (at the beach preferably)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Free Headspace subscription
Company HQ
Mayfair, London, UK
Leadership
Vernon Tjon-Soei-Len
(Co-Founder & CEO)Vernon worked as at Analyst at Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan before becoming a Team Leader at Bain & Company. He then went on to become the Director of Strategy and International Expansion at Zipcar before joining Amazon as the Director of Amazon Flex UK in 2017.
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