Senior Software Engineer

Your role in our Team
At Workrise, we believe it’s more than just a job, we invest in our people & encourage you to choose the path for your career. It’s truly about you, your future & where you want to go.
We are looking for aSenior Software Engineer to help build the next evolution of our platform, growing our search & match intelligence engine capability to connect our clients and workers.
Weare organised into agile cross-functional teams consisting of Engineering, Product & Design, which allows us to develop deep expertise and rapidly deliver high value features & functionality..
What you'll be doing
You’ll work with a team of Engineers leveraging Kotlin & Kafka to provide the foundations for data democratization of our platform, building the pathways to extract and enrich that data that underpins our technology marketplace, and driving adoption of streaming and reactive patterns across our platform ecosystem.
We'll be there to support you as you become familiar with our teams, product domains, tech stack and processes - generally how we all work together.
As a Senior Software Engineer you will
Help design, build and deliver the services and domains that power our platform - shaping the product features and capabilities that underpin our platform
Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to take ideas from concept to delivery - balancing the desire to ship code with the responsibility to get it right
Contribute to our culture improving how we deliver as a team - helping us to leave things better than we find them & making it easier for all of us to get stuff done
Support, coach and mentor Engineers within our team - sharing your insight, knowledge and experience as we learn & grow together
Our main tech stack includes : Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes & Docker, Kotlin, Kafka, React.js, Typescript, Material-UI, Graph QL, Neo4j, Node.js, NestJS, MongoDb and PostgreS.
If you have production scale experience in a different JVM language (Kotlin or Java, Scala, Groovy etc..) and are interested in moving to a new stack then we should chat !
Who you are
You're a hands-on developer who gets stuck in, you enjoy solving complex problems & building impactful solutions - importantly you lead by example in making a difference
Take the initiative to own outcomes from start to finish - knowing what needs to be done within your domain and how we work together to deliver the best solution
You’ve a passion for developing your craft - you get what it takes to build quality, robust and scalable solutions
You’ll see the learning when things don’t quite go to plan - not just for you but how we continuously improve as a team
So, what is important to us
Above all you’ll get stuff done, more importantly you’ll collaborate to do the right things, in the right way to achieve the right outcomes
Proficient with a JVM Language (open to Kotlin or Java, Scala, Groovy etc.)
5+ years of relevant development experience building production grade solutions
Delivery focussed with solid exposure to SOA and/or Microservices environment
Practical exposure of CI/CD pipelines for your production services
Familiarity with cloud service platforms (GCP, or AWS, Azure etc.)
Experience partnering and collaborating with remote teams (across different time zones)
Proven track record in learning new technologies and applying that learning quickly
Some of the things thatwould be nice to have, a plus but not required
Experience of messaging/streaming technology (Kafka or Pulsar, NATS, Rabbit etc.)
Familiarity with containerisation and Kubernetes
Kafka - Streaming API, Connect, ksqlDB, Monitoring
Note - all candidates must be able to demonstrate their right to work in the UK
Workrise are an equal opportunities employer and all appointments will be made on merit.
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