Senior Backend Engineer, GEEIQ
£80-90k
4-5 days a week in office
The platform, insights and experts behind the biggest brands in gaming and virtual worlds.
Open for applications
The platform, insights and experts behind the biggest brands in gaming and virtual worlds.
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£80-90k
4-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
GEEIQ's mission is to become the single source of truth and decision making point for brands navigating and engaging the virtual worlds economy and wider metaverse.
Role
Who you are
- This role demands significant expertise in backend development, specifically concerning distributed data processing, API design patterns, performance tuning, and database optimization
- We seek a highly experienced and self-driven engineer adept at navigating the complexities of a scaling organization
- 4 - 6+ years of proven experience in a Backend or Software Engineering role, demonstrating increasing responsibility and technical depth
- Extensive experience in backend development, architecting, building, and scaling complex systems, with a strong focus on data pipelines, API design, and performance optimization
- Deep expertise in backend programming languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), and potentially experience with other relevant backend languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java)
- Strong proficiency in designing, implementing, and optimising SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB) database solutions, including data modelling and query tuning
- Proven experience building, deploying, and managing applications and services on cloud platforms like AWS (preferred) or Google Cloud Platform, leveraging services relevant to backend workloads (e.g., compute, databases, messaging queues, container orchestration)
- In-depth experience with designing, building, and optimizing RESTful APIs, including understanding of best practices for scalability, security, and performance
- Demonstrable experience with designing and implementing robust, scalable data pipelines and understanding ETL/ELT processes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to design, optimize, and troubleshoot complex backend systems, data flows, and performance bottlenecks
- Solid understanding of distributed systems principles, microservices architecture, and asynchronous processing patterns
- Experience with containerization (e.g., Docker) and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes) is highly desirable
- Excellent communication and technical leadership skills, with proven ability to mentor engineers, drive technical decisions, and collaborate effectively with diverse stakeholders (Product Managers, Data Scientists, Frontend Engineers, etc.)
- Passion: Individuals who are passionate about building highly scalable, data-intensive systems and have a genuine interest in working for a high-growth company in an exciting industry (like the virtual world/marketing tech)
- Industry: Previous experience in marketing technology products, a startup, or a SaaS company, particularly those dealing with significant data volumes, would be a huge benefit
- Curiosity: You stay current with new trends in backend technologies, data engineering, cloud services, and understand the importance of scalable infrastructure in supporting business goals. Enthusiasm for the industry and collaboration is key
What the job involves
- Our Engineering team plays a critical role developing and refining the GEEIQ data platform that helps and empowers our clients—from major brands to emerging players in various industries— to navigate the complexities of the metaverse
- The GEEIQ engineering team is extremely collaborative, working together to not only build a great platform, but also a great team. Every member of the team has valued input and can help make us the best engineering team possible
- GEEIQ engineering is on a mission to transform raw data into digestible and actionable strategies, helping brands become intrinsic parts of virtual environments, seamlessly integrating and engaging with diverse virtual audiences
- At GEEIQ, the Senior Backend Engineer specializing in Data Pipelines and API Optimization is central to our platform's performance and data capabilities
- You will architect, build, and iteratively improve the systems that ingest, process, and serve data, with a direct focus on the scalability of our data pipelines and the performance optimization of our APIs
- You will leverage technologies like JavaScript and TypeScript to develop and maintain efficient, resilient backend services and APIs, ensuring they meet demanding performance and reliability standards
- You must be capable of leading intricate backend projects, particularly those involving large-scale data handling or critical API enhancements
- Your technical leadership will be key in evolving our backend infrastructure, mentoring engineers, and ensuring our systems effectively support GEEIQ's growth and data-driven insights
- Design, build, scale, and continuously optimize robust data pipelines for efficient data ingestion, transformation, and delivery between various sources and destinations (including MySQL, MongoDB)
- Ensure the reliability, monitor performance, and proactively identify bottlenecks in data flows supporting our applications and analytics needs
- Architect, develop, and optimize high-performance, scalable backend services and APIs using Node.js and TypeScript, focusing on reliability, maintainability, and efficient request handling
- Implement API design best practices and lead efforts in API performance tuning and optimisation
- Design, implement, and optimize database schemas and queries for both SQL (MySQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases to ensure data integrity, security, and high performance
- Lead initiatives to improve database performance, scalability, and resilience as required by evolving data pipelines and API demands
- Provide technical leadership across backend projects, guiding architectural decisions, design patterns, and execution strategy, with a strong focus on data systems and API efficiency
- Champion and enforce high standards for code quality, testing strategies (unit, integration, performance), and observability through rigorous code reviews and setting team standards
- Mentor other engineers (junior and mid-level), fostering a collaborative environment and promoting a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning within the backend domain
- Collaborate closely key stakeholders to translate complex requirements into robust, scalable backend solutions
- Take ownership of technically complex backend initiatives from planning and estimation through to deployment and monitoring, ensuring timely delivery and alignment with business goals
Application process
- Applied
- Review
- Video Interview
- Interview
- Final Interview
- Hired
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an abundance of sponsorships, partnerships and campaigns emerging daily in the e-industry, but navigating this industry can be difficult. GEEIQ is an insights platform that empowers brands to navigate and engage the virtual worlds economy. It is the decision-making point for brands seeking to reach, engage and retain untapped virtual communities in this new communications vertical, offering competitor benchmarking, virtual experience reporting and partner identification.
Using competitive analysis, structured metrics and knowledge of current industry trends, GEEIQ's verifications standardise partner selection processes and drastically reduce financial risk for brands. The company provides its subscribers with professional services to help curate long-term, data-led virtual strategies that are focused on tangible KPI's over favorable PR and headlines. GEEIQ works with brands from Walmart and Porsche, to Gucci and Elton John, fast establishing itself as the sole provider of deep analytics on brand opportunities in virtual gaming environments and the wider ‘metaverse’.
GEEIQ is continuing to develop its platform to become an indispensable tool for brands activating and measuring their success in this space as it aims to be to virtual gaming and the metaverse, what Nielsen is to television and radio. In September 2023, the company closed its Series A funding round of $8.2 million, which will allow it to accelerate scale-up plans, explore international expansion and further develop its platform and professional services.
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Team energy
"The team at GEEIQ are engaged in the work and it shows every day around the office. Whenever someone shows off some data or a project they've been..."
Funding (1 round)
Sep 2023
$8.2m
SERIES A
Total funding: $8.2m
Company benefits
- 25 days paid annual leave + UK bank holidays
- Support to learn, develop and progress with GEEIQ
- Regular team buildings (Game nights, afterwork drinks, Christmas/Summer parties...)
- Birthday Off
Company HQ
Marylebone, London, UK
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GEEIQ
- GEEIQ is a place for people who can challenge the status quo
- We are at the start of our journey, and at the core of the company's DNA, we want to instil a workplace of trust, leadership and support
- At GEEIQ we’re looking for genuinely good people that are transparent and emphatic, and kind with one other
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