Server-side Engineer

Salary: £70,000 - 70,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong technical skills and creativity
• Enjoy solving tough problems and working with modern technologies
• Willingness to share ideas and care deeply about user experience and beautiful code
• Relevant experience and skills in building server-side applications
• Experience writing, refactoring, and deleting code
• Experience with build tools and continuous integration
• Experience fixing bugs
• Experience with asynchronous code
• Experience in performance analysis and optimization
• Experience working with legacy code
• Experience writing unit tests
• Experience with open source
• Experience working in a team
• Self-starting mindset
• Experience integrating with bespoke backend services
• Experience designing solutions for open-ended problems
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Familiarity with relevant technologies such as Kotlin, Gradle, REST, GQL, and RAML

Responsibilities:

• Work on the Mobile application Service Layer (Backend for Frontend) used by tens of millions of users around the world
• Build the Backend for Frontend API layer consumed by mobile apps
• Work as part of the Mobile Engineering team to develop new products and platforms
• Collaborate with a large team of engineers, product people, designers, and QA
• Contribute to interactive experiences across all touch points of a consumers journey before, during, and after purchase

Technologies:

• API
• Backend
• Frontend
• Gradle
• Kotlin
• Mobile
• REST

More:

We are part of the Mobile Engineering team, focused on building new products and platforms and delivering interactive experiences across all touch points of a consumers journey. You will work in a large, collaborative environment with engineers, product people, designers, and QA, developing a Backend for Frontend API layer consumed by mobile apps. Based on experience, this role may be entry level, senior, or staff.