Staff Engineer, Attest

£100-125k

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AWS
Kubernetes
Java
Kafka
Go
Postgres
Senior and Expert level
London

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1-2 days a week in office

Attest

Making consumer research simple

Open for applications

Attest

Making consumer research simple

21-100 employees

B2BProductivityBig dataMarketingAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Open for applications

£100-125k

+ Share options

AWS
Kubernetes
Java
Kafka
Go
Postgres
Senior and Expert level
London

More information about location

1-2 days a week in office

21-100 employees

B2BProductivityBig dataMarketingAnalyticsMarket researchSaaS

Company mission

Making it simple and fast to uncover opportunity with consumer data.

Role

Who you are

  • You align with and actively embody our core values, which are more than just words—they are the foundation of everything we do. Our values drive our decisions, shape our culture, and define who we are as a team. Learn more about them on our careers page. Specifically this means:
  • You love Discovering Insights and use data and feedback to solve problems,whether leading or from the back seat
  • You are output focussed, Generating Outcomes by demonstrating the ability to lead and implement engineering efficiencies in a Principle, Staff, Architect role or an Engineering Manager looking to go back into a high level IC role, coming at problems with ‘First Principles’ thinking’
  • You Include Intentionally, embracing and valuing all perspectives to find the best process, solution or product for a wide variety of people with differing opinions, experiences and ideas
  • You want to Win Together, leading by example and mentoring and coaching other members of the team to be successful
  • You are a confident, clear communicator - sharing the what, the why and the how of what you are thinking and doing in all directions
  • You have a passion for optimisation and efficiency. You're not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value
  • You Embrace Change and help bring others along with you

What the job involves

  • We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Backend Staff Engineer to help shape the future of the Engineering strategy - taking the team to the next level. You’ll help to set the direction of backend engineering, navigating everything from decision making to implementation, whilst expertly supporting engineers to balance quality, rapid delivery and value with complexity
  • You’ll serve as a leader - mentoring and guiding a team of highly competent engineers, through sharing your experience, knowledge and insights
  • Mentor and coach other engineers, helping them grow into confident developers while sharing your experience and feedback
  • Drive improvements in engineering efficiency by identifying patterns, refining tooling, enhancing CI pipelines, and streamlining processes
  • Actively lead and contribute to squad discussions, offering your expertise and insights to help solve challenges and work towards solutions
  • Collaborate with domain-specific engineering squads to deliver key platform features, ensuring alignment with the engineering and business strategy
  • Alongside the technology leadership team, build and refine Attest’s backend software delivery processes, ensuring they are scalable and efficient
  • Lead chapter meetings with positivity and purpose, providing dedicated 1:1 time with engineers to listen, understand, and offer constructive feedback
  • Take ownership of the definition of both public and private APIs, taking a hands-on approach to problem-solving
  • The opportunity to guide and mentor a number of highly talented engineers
  • Play a key role in setting the direction of backend engineering as we continue to evolve our product positioning globally
  • Be part of an innovative cross-collaborative team where your ideas and solutions are valued and implemented
  • An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed

Application process

  • Application with your profile
  • Video Call with the Hiring Manager
  • Project retro with a member of the Engineering team and a member of the Attest team
  • Take home task
  • Peer programming and Systems Design interview
  • Values Fit interview

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Businesses are constantly seeking new ways to understand trends, grow in new markets, and explore innovations. However 99% of the questions businesses would love to explore go unanswered

The steps required to launch a survey have typically been cumbersome. Attest have built a platform that is self-serve, and allows companies to ask targeted questions from a wide range of audiences

The traditional research market is worth $76 billion, and yet it only serves a fraction of those who would benefit from fast and reliable consumer insights

Attest is currently focused on larger customers such as Heineken, Boots, Samsung. They are also seeing demand from smaller players such as Monzo and Nutmeg, showing the size of the opportunity

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Steph

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Insights

Top investors

44% female employees

-24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Nice people

"Fundamentally Attest is a *very* people first company. It really goes over and above looking after employees. I think this was really demonstrated..."

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Oct 2021

$60m

SERIES B

May 2020

$15m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $94.5m

Company benefits

  • EMI share options in the company so that as the business succeeds, so do you!
  • Benefits to support your career development and growth, including a career growth and development budget of £20/$20 per month which can be accrued over the year. We’ll even give you £300/ $300 to set up your home office.
  • We offer benefits that support your physical and mental health. These include enhanced sick pay, a £40/$40 per month wellness allowance to spend on things that matter to your wellbeing which can be spent on a monthly basis or saved up for larger purchases over the year, and access to private and confidential coaching via Sanctus.
  • Family-friendly policies from your first day of employment, such as enhanced parental leave with primary careers receiving 18 weeks fully paid leave and secondary careers receiving 4 weeks full pay. We also have a fertility treatment and family support policy which include paid leave for those going through treatment and their partners. Should the worst happen, we have a pregnancy loss policy with paid time off to support you through this time.
  • Spend up to 2 paid days per month – we call it 10% time – giving back to your community or supporting your favourite charity.
  • Receive support whenever you need it with our Employee Assistance Programme, Care First, available 24/7.
  • An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed.
  • 25 days paid holiday per year, increasing to 26 after 3 years service and 27 after 4 years service. This is in addition to local public holidays and an additional average of 2 days off during the festive season. You can also take one month's fully paid sabbatical after 4 years service.
  • To help you save for your retirement, you’ll be auto-enrolled to our group pension plan through Penfold when you join. You can maximise your pension contribution through the salary sacrifice scheme.
  • Work from anywhere – spend up to 80 days per year working abroad +/-4 hours from London

Company values

  • Discover Insights
  • Generate Outcomes
  • Embrace Change
  • Include Intentionally
  • Win together

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Jeremy founded Attest following 9 years at McKinsey & Company. He originally trained as a scientist, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and helps state primary schools with his charity work.


People progressing

Alyssa joined Attest in 2020 as a Product Manager and after multiple promotions is now leading the function as Product Director.

Graham joined Attest in 2022 as a Sales Development Representative in our New York office and after 11 months was promoted to a Senior Sales Development Representative.

Sam joined attest in 2019 and has progressed from a Client Experience Executive, to Head of Consumer Research to Director of Consumer Research to VP of Customer Success.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Attest

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Emily Meiklejohn (Talent Lead )

  • We actively embrace and value all perspectives and strive towards making our workplace diverse and our processes fair, equitable and free from bias.
  • At beginning of the hiring process, we ask candidates to complete a demographic survey to understand more about our talent pool, identifying if there are any trends as candidates progress through the process.
  • 'Discover insights’ is one of our company values and we continually review how our candidate attraction and hiring processes are working to understand if they can be further optimised and are as inclusive as they could be.
  • One of our core values is to 'Include Intentionally'. We want to ensure that you get the opportunity to shine at your interview so will ask if you need any reasonable adjustments.
  • Examples of reasonable adjustments could include, more time for a task, asking for captions to be switched on during a video interview or asking for your interview to take time at a particular time of day because you are fasting, need to pray, take medication, need to do the school run or eat at a certain time. This list is not exhaustive so please get in touch to discuss any adjustments that you may need.
  • We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach, where employees split their time between the office and their home / alternative place of work. You can find out how this works in practice by reviewing our Life at Attest Blog post: https://www.askattest.com/blog/life-at-attest/hybrid-and-flexible-working-at-attest
  • We have a wide range of benefits designed to meet the diverse needs of our employees. We review our benefits annually as we understand that people's preferences may change.

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