Senior Software Engineer, Beacon
£75-85k
Supply Chain Visibility Platform
Job no longer available
Supply Chain Visibility Platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£75-85k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help businesses simplify and optimise their supply chains with end-to-end visibility, supplier payments, and insights.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on experience developing commercial software products
- Strong knowledge of service-oriented development, micro-service architecture principles, and continuous development / continuous integration best practices
- Experience with service development on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or equivalent Cloud infrastructure providers
- Experience in Java, C#, C++, Go, Kotlin or other modern object-oriented programming language
- Excellent written and oral communication in English and ability to explain succinctly complex technical issues
- Have a passion for building simple, elegant software solutions
What the job involves
- Be hands on designing, developing and deploying the software that runs Beacon’s customer and operations platform
- Guide a team of software engineers on software design and development best practices in a service-oriented environment
- Take the lead in shaping Beacon’s software architecture
- Define Beacon’s technical hiring strategy and mentor a team of talented engineers
- Have the freedom and encouragement to create and innovate on behalf of our customers
Application process
- 1. 30 minute phone/video call with Recruiter
- 2. HM screen with Head of Engineering
- 3. System Design Technical Assessment
- 4. Final Interview with Coding Assessment & Cultural Assessment
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The trillion-dollar freight forwarding industry is ripe for disruption, with 43% of the market dominated by just ten firms. Starting out as a digital freight forwarding company for SMEs, Beacon has used its experience of the customer journey and the pain points for shippers to develop a SaaS platform that gives supply chain visibility and management tools to the array of stakeholders within the supply chain.
Beacon's goal is to empower its customers, which it does by connecting supply chain data, providing them with analytical tools for rapid decision-making and giving them access to growth capital. This range of services, flexibility of its platform, and its time as a freight forwarding company allows Beacon to meet the needs of disparate stakeholders across the supply chain, from buyers to logistics managers. This has given it a major edge against its competitors' inflexible enterprise solutions.
Beacon has received funding in a Series B round with participation from Jeff Bezo. With the backing of industry leaders and its large and growing customer base, Beacon appears to be poised for future success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Jun 2020
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- We provide private healthcare, mindfulness resources and company-wide focus days to help keep our teams on top of their priorities
- All teams offer some form of hybrid working, providing the benefit of working from an office, or from home
- Pension contributions to make sure you’re provided for
- Feel invested in Beacon’s growth with share options and referral bonuses
- We offer parental and adoption leave as well as flexible working hours to support parents’ return to work
Company HQ
Victoria, London, UK
Leadership
Fraser Robinson
(CEO)Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Fraser led Uber’s Business in EMEA and before that held senior roles in technology and e-commerce startups for over two decades.
Dmitri Izmailov
(COO)Prior to Co-Founding Beacon, Dmitri was the General Manager of Uber in Russia and prior to that worked as a Management Consultant in New York.
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