Senior Backend Software Engineer

Job Description

Our Mission 🚀

Bud's mission is simple. We're here to create the world’s most compelling financial data products. The products we're building are used by some of the world's most prestigious institutions to help millions of their customers take control of their finances. 

Your Mission 👨‍🚀👩‍🚀

Your mission is to work within an innovative team developing performant, scalable and reliable applications in Go.

A bit about backend at Bud 

As a Backend Engineer, you'll be a key part of the development and maintenance of our back-end systems which are the foundation of our company's products and services. You’ll collaborate closely with our team of engineers to design, build, and test our systems.

You'll be working with a modern stack including:

- Go to develop and maintain our backend and data engineering projects

- A range of data stores including MySQL, Cassandra, Redis and BigQuery

- RabbitMQ for queues

- Internal services communication with both HTTP and gRPC

- An observability stack that counts on GrafanaLab, Loki, Tempo, Looker, and more

- Cloud environments - Google Cloud Platform

- Experience with Docker and / or Kubernetes is a bonus!

We believe in a highly collaborative environment where everyone’s contributions are valued and trusted.

Responsibilities

• Delivering technical solutions independently and in collaboration with the team
• Leading and contributing to conversations and initiatives with other backend developers and the team; sharing knowledge and contributing to technical best practices
• Building strong relationships within the team and wider organisation, actively mentoring and supporting through technical guidance and feedback
• Keeping up to date with new tools and practices, continuously seeking to improve your own technical expertise, domain knowledge and skills
• Communicating effectively in both technical and non-technical discussions
• Comfortable making appropriate trade-offs in project scoping and delivery considering maintainability, scalability, and time to deliver in collaboration with the team and other stakeholders
• Working closely with our cross-functional team to align on implementation and solutions

Everyone is welcome

We are committed to building a more diverse team where everyone feels safe to be their best and most authentic selves, because we believe that these differences will make us grow and be better as a company and a team. We are always looking for people who have different backgrounds, experiences, and ways of thinking to help contribute to and grow our culture, and strongly encourage people of colour, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and non-binary people, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply. We also encourage you to apply even if you don’t match every part of the job ad. As an equal opportunity employer we welcome everyone to our team and do not discriminate based on any applicable protected characteristics. 

Please let us know if there are any accommodations or reasonable adjustments that we can make during the hiring process - we are committed to making sure you’re well supported through the process and in the workplace.

Requirements

• Proficient in Go
• You care deeply about best practices and are passionate about clean, scalable and performant code
• Strong understanding of application, information and infrastructure architectures
• Passionate about keeping up to date with new tools and technologies
• You champion quality standards and ensure thorough testing in your work across unit and E2E tests

Benefits

• 💰Competitive Salaries - We have benchmarked this role between £80,000 - £95,000

• 💰Pension - We’ll match pension contributions up to 5% through our scheme with Aviva
• 📚Learning & Development Budget - £1,000 a year to accelerate your learning
• 📈 Career Progression - We have uniquely built out progression frameworks to help accelerate your growth and quarterly R&D days
• 🧘‍♂️ Mental Health Support - Online therapy and resources through our partners at Spill
• 🏋️‍♀️ Wellbeing Allowance - A flexi-pot of £50 a month to use towards your wellbeing
• 🏥 Private Medical Insurance - Through Vitality
• ⏳Flexible Working - We trust our team to get the job done and will support various flexible working arrangements as part of our hybrid approach, which includes our 60-day work abroad allowance
• 🏖️Time Off - 25 days + bank holidays + additional time over the holiday season 
• 🍼 Parental Leave - We offer enhanced parental leave, as well as 5 days of paid fertility leave and 10 days of paid pregnancy loss leave as we know the journey to parenthood isn’t always straightforward
• 🫶 Volunteering Leave - 2 paid days off a year to spend time on projects and initiatives that matter to you