Senior Software Engineer, Zoa

• A deep understanding of different database types and technologies (e.g Postgres, BigQuery), how they operate at scale and their relative tradeoffs
• Proven experience and knowledge of architecture patterns for creating performant and cost efficient data pipelines at scale
• Awareness of considerations of privacy, security and data governance when storing and transporting potentially sensitive data
• Proven experience building reliable, observable and maintainable software systems at scale with business impact
• Good knowledge and experience of at least one Cloud Platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• 5+ years experience working with and strong foundations in one or more high-level programming languages (Javascript or Python)
• A strong practitioner of automated testing and understanding of different levels of the testing pyramid
• Good understanding of web-security best practices and knowledge of the tooling landscape
• Experience working on a microservices architecture involving both synchronous and asynchronous forms of communication

Desirable

• You will take end-to-end ownership across all areas of the software development lifecycle, including: designing, building, releasing and monitoring. You build it, you own it!
• You will be building out Zoa’s core data architecture, including an analytics Data Warehouse and integrations with third party supplier systems
• You will work closely with the team to correctly estimate work and determine feasibility of work requested by Product & Design
• You will be a role model and provide support to more junior engineers. Leading by example and helping to shape our engineering culture
• Be a technical influencer: You will collaborate with other Technical Leaders to help define and evolve our ways of working, engineering principles and best practices
• You will use data to guide product and engineering decisions to focus on what matters most
• Work with the whole organisation to set and maintain internal standards for data governance whilst maintaining compliance with industry standards and meeting third-party requirements for handling, storing and exposing data

• 1) Remote Recruiter screen
• 2) Remote Hiring Manager interview
• 3) Remote Coding Exercise
• 3) In Person Final Interviews: typically 3 rounds = 2.5 hours total