Backend Engineer, Cuvva

• The ability to be adaptable and embrace change initiatives whilst enthusiastically collaborating with peers and through your demeanour, you’re mindful of your interactions and tone of voice
• Proven experience in Node JS or Golang (personal project work included)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (we are on AWS, but GCP, Azure, etc. would work)
• Experience with automated testing
• Working knowledge of git
• A strong eye for detail, not shy away from building new and existing features within the codebase; and have a genuine interest in knowledge sharing and collaboration
• A demonstrable commitment to continuous learning by attending relevant workshops, conferences, or online courses, and applying new knowledge to improve your skills and stay updated with industry trends
• A genuine passion for building meaningful products, working with driven colleagues and want to be part of making a difference in the world of InsurTech

Desirable

• As a Backend Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to identify and solve problems in the product (both functional and technical) and be able to support, partner, influence and pair on tasks across the wider Product Engineering team to make informed decisions and have better learning opportunities
• With your customer centric and product focussed mindset, you’ll lean on your understanding of true Product Engineering principles and ways of working
• You’ll collaborate with designers to contribute to and expand our design systems, often lead and participate in technical specification documents and sessions; you’ll also, scope, design and implement new features in collaboration with Product Managers and fellow Engineers
• You’ll help the team achieve their goals – whether that’s building a new service in our backend platform, creating a new version of an existing API to deliver a new feature, or creating a CLI tool to automate something
• Write clean, concise, maintainable, scaleable and well-tested code, being able to self review, break down, and make improvements to your own work whilst taking part in the entire product development process from problem-discovery to solution design, to implementation and rollout
• Architect, plan, and structure new features with your team, whilst maintaining the functionality of services, ensure infrastructure changes and improvements, improve our continuous deployment processes and overall, make our products more accessible, secure and performant
• Troubleshoot and debug issues across the stack, from infrastructure to application code, and implement effective solutions in a timely manner, whilst support in performing write ups of any incidents that occur
• Write comprehensive tests and participate in code reviews to ensure the reliability, stability, and security of our systems
• Get involved in Scrum based ceremonies e.g daily standups and retrospectives, have weekly 1:1s with your line manager, and maintain visibility of your tasks at hand, we use Shortcut as our ticketing system
• Have a high degree of emotional intelligence, with an understanding that being able to write “good code” is only one part of your role, we expect you to support us in building a great company culture, and discipline specific community