With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. About the Role: We're seeking an innovative and experienced technologist to join our Global Specialist Solutions Engineering team-a group dedicated to solving complex, real-time data challenges and optimizing Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Data Analytics architectures. As a trusted technical advisor, you will collaborate closely with product management and engineering, serving as a key advocate for Confluent's platform. This role demands expertise in Kafka, distributed systems, and pre-sales engineering, while engaging with cross-functional teams to drive product success and customer outcomes. Ideal candidates may have backgrounds in Technical Account Management, Sales Engineering, or Professional Services. What You Will Do: Enable Customers with Real-Time Architectures Understand customer challenges with traditional Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Batch Analytics workflows, and guide them toward real-time, distributed architectures using Kafka, Flink, Kafka Streams, and modern ETL/ELT frameworks. Help customers optimize their data platforms by focusing on early-stage data enrichment, filtering, and processing for better performance and cost efficiency. Provide Technical Expertise Assist customers and sales teams in designing, deploying, and optimizing real-time data streaming platforms, integrating Kafka with distributed processing, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Architect solutions to unify operational and analytical workloads, enabling a data mesh or streaming-first architecture. Partner with sales, product management, marketing, and engineering to translate customer feedback into continuous improvements for Confluent's platform. Work cross-functionally to refine product messaging and technical positioning, ensuring clarity and alignment with customer needs. Drive Thought Leadership Lead technical workshops, webinars, and sessions to showcase the advanced capabilities of Kafka, Kafka Connect, Flink, and other data streaming tools. Advocate for best practices in real-time architectures through case studies, training sessions, and field engagement with both technical and business stakeholders. What You Will Bring: Core Skills & Expertise Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise-scale, real-time data streaming solutions with Kafka and related ecosystems. Deep knowledge of Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and Distributed Systems, including CDC Connectors, ETL tools, and RDBMS platforms. Expertise in distributed data processing, data governance, and real-time analytics. Hands-on programming experience with Python, Java, or similar, especially for building streaming and ETL pipelines. Customer & Business Impact A demonstrated ability to become a trusted advisor to Chief Data Officers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Architects, driving customer success and platform adoption. Strong pre-sales engineering skills, including technical presentations, proof-of-concept development, and hands-on solution design. Proven ability to work across cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and marketing, to drive shared outcomes. A passion for learning and adapting to emerging technologies, particularly within the Kafka ecosystem. What Gives You an Edge: Extensive experience with modern data architectures, including Data Warehouses, Lakehouses, data formats (e.g., Avro, Parquet), and cloud-native platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Expertise in integrating Kafka-based solutions with cloud services and enterprise data ecosystems. Demonstrated success designing and implementing distributed streaming systems for large-scale enterprises, including Fortune 1000 companies. Come As You Are At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $136,700 - 160,650, a competitive equity package and is also eligible for additional commission and/or bonus pay. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE. Click HERE to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.
10/05/2025
Full time
With Confluent, organizations can harness the full power of continuously flowing data to innovate and win in the modern digital world. We have a purpose that drives us to do better every day - we're creating an entirely new category within data infrastructure - data streaming. This technology will allow every organization to create experiences and use the power of data in ways that profoundly impact the way we all live. This impact is our purpose and drives us to do better every day. One Confluent. One team. One Data Streaming Platform. Data Connects Us. About the Role: We're seeking an innovative and experienced technologist to join our Global Specialist Solutions Engineering team-a group dedicated to solving complex, real-time data challenges and optimizing Data Lake, Data Warehouse, and Data Analytics architectures. As a trusted technical advisor, you will collaborate closely with product management and engineering, serving as a key advocate for Confluent's platform. This role demands expertise in Kafka, distributed systems, and pre-sales engineering, while engaging with cross-functional teams to drive product success and customer outcomes. Ideal candidates may have backgrounds in Technical Account Management, Sales Engineering, or Professional Services. What You Will Do: Enable Customers with Real-Time Architectures Understand customer challenges with traditional Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, and Batch Analytics workflows, and guide them toward real-time, distributed architectures using Kafka, Flink, Kafka Streams, and modern ETL/ELT frameworks. Help customers optimize their data platforms by focusing on early-stage data enrichment, filtering, and processing for better performance and cost efficiency. Provide Technical Expertise Assist customers and sales teams in designing, deploying, and optimizing real-time data streaming platforms, integrating Kafka with distributed processing, and ensuring alignment with business goals. Architect solutions to unify operational and analytical workloads, enabling a data mesh or streaming-first architecture. Partner with sales, product management, marketing, and engineering to translate customer feedback into continuous improvements for Confluent's platform. Work cross-functionally to refine product messaging and technical positioning, ensuring clarity and alignment with customer needs. Drive Thought Leadership Lead technical workshops, webinars, and sessions to showcase the advanced capabilities of Kafka, Kafka Connect, Flink, and other data streaming tools. Advocate for best practices in real-time architectures through case studies, training sessions, and field engagement with both technical and business stakeholders. What You Will Bring: Core Skills & Expertise Proven experience architecting and implementing enterprise-scale, real-time data streaming solutions with Kafka and related ecosystems. Deep knowledge of Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Lakehouses, and Distributed Systems, including CDC Connectors, ETL tools, and RDBMS platforms. Expertise in distributed data processing, data governance, and real-time analytics. Hands-on programming experience with Python, Java, or similar, especially for building streaming and ETL pipelines. Customer & Business Impact A demonstrated ability to become a trusted advisor to Chief Data Officers, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, Data Analysts, and Architects, driving customer success and platform adoption. Strong pre-sales engineering skills, including technical presentations, proof-of-concept development, and hands-on solution design. Proven ability to work across cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and marketing, to drive shared outcomes. A passion for learning and adapting to emerging technologies, particularly within the Kafka ecosystem. What Gives You an Edge: Extensive experience with modern data architectures, including Data Warehouses, Lakehouses, data formats (e.g., Avro, Parquet), and cloud-native platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). Expertise in integrating Kafka-based solutions with cloud services and enterprise data ecosystems. Demonstrated success designing and implementing distributed streaming systems for large-scale enterprises, including Fortune 1000 companies. Come As You Are At Confluent, equality is a core tenet of our culture. We are committed to building an inclusive global team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences. The more diverse we are, the richer our community and the broader our impact. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. At Confluent, we are committed to providing competitive pay and benefits that are in line with industry standards. We analyze and carefully consider several factors when determining compensation, including work history, education, professional experience, and location. This position has an annual estimated salary of $136,700 - 160,650, a competitive equity package and is also eligible for additional commission and/or bonus pay. The actual pay may vary depending on your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location. In addition, Confluent offers a wide range of employee benefits. To learn more about our benefits click HERE. Click HERE to review our Candidate Privacy Notice which describes how and when Confluent, Inc., and its group companies, collects, uses, and shares certain personal information of California job applicants and prospective employees.
About Birdie Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year, making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe. Birdie was founded in 2017, a B-Corp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M, we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures, fuelling our mission to transform care. Recognised for its innovation and impact, we have received numerous accolades, including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloitte's EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastest-growing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore, Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards. Check out our principles and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we will continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions. Your mission? As a Senior SRE , you'll contribute to influence and shape both the strategy and implementation of our evolving observability capabilities across the Birdie system; you'll leverage OpenTelemetry and SRE practices to support squads in proactively identifying issues before they impact customers; You'll play a vital role in building and maintaining our Incident Management and On-Call "experience", building automations and driving practices that unify critical system operations and make OOH support run smoothly; You'll be championing reliability and stability across the Engineering Organisation, instilling SRE principles within teams and leaving your mark on our product. You'll scale into acting as a "Tech Lead", developing our Disaster Recovery strategy, supporting Platform and Product in defining and executing targeted improvements that cross-functionally achieve RPO and RTO targets; You'll be a key part of our "shift-left" DevOps success, whether it's security best-practices, CI/CD, solid production considerations or just leveraging AWS to its fullest - you'll be at the forefront of our non-functional strategies. Who are we looking for? Are passionate about the entire spectrum of reliability engineering and scaling into a leadership IC role for a scaling company. Experienced with writing code to solve DevOps problems and are a pragmatic problem-solver, knowing when to build vs buy. Able to handle ambiguity and uncertainty, adjusting your approach where suitable; you can deliver initiatives from end to end, working with cross-functional peers from problem to solution. Are someone who gets things done and is willing to step up, roll up your sleeves and take responsibility. You're also a clear communicator, negotiator and influencer. Appreciate the product mindset, dedicated to understanding user (developer) needs and driving innovation to enhance the overall user experience. Able to work efficiently in a cross-functional team setting and with a high degree of self-motivation and accountability. You follow best practice for the technologies you work with and understand why. You're intensely curious, love learning new things and teaching others about them, acting as a mentor to other team members. What skills do you need? Have proficiency in AWS and cloud-native architecture patterns. Comfortable in a coding and scripting language. Have proficiency with leveraging modern tracing, metrics and related observability topics - i.e. Open Telemetry. Have proficiency creating strong CI/CD pipelines and adapting to the feedback you gain from them. Experience working in a security-conscious engineering organisation, with proficiencies in DevSecOps principles. Clear understanding of SRE practices, goals and implementations. A deep capacity to get things done. Are someone who is inspired by, and seeks to embody our values . What are the benefits? People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive: Compensation Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £80k - £100k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK. Location This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK. L&D budget Learning and growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts. Work From Home budget Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you'll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need. Paid time off We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra "Birthday" day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year. Birdie giving days Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you're passionate about) each year. Sabbaticals We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months. ️ Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl. Cycle to work scheme Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months. Parental Leave Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary. Fertility Leave Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave. Employer pension contribution Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies). Frequent company socials, trips and meals We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. It's essential to us that you're able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects. If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don't hesitate to contact us.
09/05/2025
Full time
About Birdie Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year, making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe. Birdie was founded in 2017, a B-Corp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M, we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures, fuelling our mission to transform care. Recognised for its innovation and impact, we have received numerous accolades, including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloitte's EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastest-growing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore, Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards. Check out our principles and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we will continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions. Your mission? As a Senior SRE , you'll contribute to influence and shape both the strategy and implementation of our evolving observability capabilities across the Birdie system; you'll leverage OpenTelemetry and SRE practices to support squads in proactively identifying issues before they impact customers; You'll play a vital role in building and maintaining our Incident Management and On-Call "experience", building automations and driving practices that unify critical system operations and make OOH support run smoothly; You'll be championing reliability and stability across the Engineering Organisation, instilling SRE principles within teams and leaving your mark on our product. You'll scale into acting as a "Tech Lead", developing our Disaster Recovery strategy, supporting Platform and Product in defining and executing targeted improvements that cross-functionally achieve RPO and RTO targets; You'll be a key part of our "shift-left" DevOps success, whether it's security best-practices, CI/CD, solid production considerations or just leveraging AWS to its fullest - you'll be at the forefront of our non-functional strategies. Who are we looking for? Are passionate about the entire spectrum of reliability engineering and scaling into a leadership IC role for a scaling company. Experienced with writing code to solve DevOps problems and are a pragmatic problem-solver, knowing when to build vs buy. Able to handle ambiguity and uncertainty, adjusting your approach where suitable; you can deliver initiatives from end to end, working with cross-functional peers from problem to solution. Are someone who gets things done and is willing to step up, roll up your sleeves and take responsibility. You're also a clear communicator, negotiator and influencer. Appreciate the product mindset, dedicated to understanding user (developer) needs and driving innovation to enhance the overall user experience. Able to work efficiently in a cross-functional team setting and with a high degree of self-motivation and accountability. You follow best practice for the technologies you work with and understand why. You're intensely curious, love learning new things and teaching others about them, acting as a mentor to other team members. What skills do you need? Have proficiency in AWS and cloud-native architecture patterns. Comfortable in a coding and scripting language. Have proficiency with leveraging modern tracing, metrics and related observability topics - i.e. Open Telemetry. Have proficiency creating strong CI/CD pipelines and adapting to the feedback you gain from them. Experience working in a security-conscious engineering organisation, with proficiencies in DevSecOps principles. Clear understanding of SRE practices, goals and implementations. A deep capacity to get things done. Are someone who is inspired by, and seeks to embody our values . What are the benefits? People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive: Compensation Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £80k - £100k per annum. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK. Location This role will need to be based in the UK. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK. L&D budget Learning and growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts. Work From Home budget Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you'll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need. Paid time off We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra "Birthday" day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year. Birdie giving days Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you're passionate about) each year. Sabbaticals We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months. ️ Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl. Cycle to work scheme Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months. Parental Leave Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary. Fertility Leave Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave. Employer pension contribution Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies). Frequent company socials, trips and meals We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. It's essential to us that you're able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects. If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don't hesitate to contact us.
For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world's most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations. Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It's a place where you can genuinely make an impact - and be recognized for it. We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers. Your role: As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you oversee testing resources on a small, highly focused team responsible for delivering an internal and customer-facing native mobile application. The team comprises of a technical product manager (TPM), four senior software developers and an SDET; and you will collaborate with them, and relevant backend teams. You are responsible to ensure appropriate and efficient testing strategies are applied in your areas of responsibility, with a focus on shift-left testing principles. You will drive continual improvement in your team's automation frameworks and coverage while mentoring other SDETs in the team on industry leading technologies and test practices. It will include building and maintaining comprehensive automated tests for the frontend application, including (but not limited to) component, UI journey and end-to-end tests. You will guide and participate hands-on in the team's testing efforts to ensure quality of coverage, quality of code and quality of delivery. Your responsibilities: Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs Drive the team's testing and automation strategies Define and organize the teams test planning for releases Design and coding of automation frameworks, tests and tools Pair with developers in designing contract tests for both consumer and producer. Participate in team planning and story grooming. Participate in test execution, issue identification and resolution in support of the release. Propose and implement improvements to automation and test processes. Develop and maintain shared testing libraries. Provide training, mentorship and support to other members on the team. Conduct code reviews, improve and maintain quality of the automation code. Conduct test reviews, improve and maintain quality of the test coverage. Document the automation framework, tools and infrastructure. About you: Minimum 8 years of experience in test development. Minimum 2 years of experience leading a small team. Excellent understanding of Swift. Excellent understanding of testing practices in an agile environment. Excellent understanding of iOS ecosystem. Experience with XCUITest. Experience with any of the following is an asset: Network principles and protocols such as HTTP, TLS and TCP. Experience with contract testing (PACT preferable). Web services technology such as REST and JSON. Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins. Knowledge of Appium. What you can expect: At Global Relay, there's no ceiling to what you can achieve. It's the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You'll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You'll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you'll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills. Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual. We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it's flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.
09/05/2025
Full time
For over 20 years, Global Relay has set the standard in enterprise information archiving with industry-leading cloud archiving, surveillance, eDiscovery, and analytics solutions. We securely capture and preserve the communications data of the world's most highly regulated firms, giving them greater visibility and control over their information and ensuring compliance with stringent regulations. Though we offer competitive compensation and benefits and all the other perks one would expect from an established company, we are not your typical technology company. Global Relay is a career-building company. A place for big ideas. New challenges. Groundbreaking innovation. It's a place where you can genuinely make an impact - and be recognized for it. We believe great businesses thrive on diversity, inclusion, and the contributions of all employees. To that end, we recruit candidates from different backgrounds and foster a work environment that encourages employees to collaborate and learn from each other, completely free of barriers. Your role: As a Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you oversee testing resources on a small, highly focused team responsible for delivering an internal and customer-facing native mobile application. The team comprises of a technical product manager (TPM), four senior software developers and an SDET; and you will collaborate with them, and relevant backend teams. You are responsible to ensure appropriate and efficient testing strategies are applied in your areas of responsibility, with a focus on shift-left testing principles. You will drive continual improvement in your team's automation frameworks and coverage while mentoring other SDETs in the team on industry leading technologies and test practices. It will include building and maintaining comprehensive automated tests for the frontend application, including (but not limited to) component, UI journey and end-to-end tests. You will guide and participate hands-on in the team's testing efforts to ensure quality of coverage, quality of code and quality of delivery. Your responsibilities: Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs Drive the team's testing and automation strategies Define and organize the teams test planning for releases Design and coding of automation frameworks, tests and tools Pair with developers in designing contract tests for both consumer and producer. Participate in team planning and story grooming. Participate in test execution, issue identification and resolution in support of the release. Propose and implement improvements to automation and test processes. Develop and maintain shared testing libraries. Provide training, mentorship and support to other members on the team. Conduct code reviews, improve and maintain quality of the automation code. Conduct test reviews, improve and maintain quality of the test coverage. Document the automation framework, tools and infrastructure. About you: Minimum 8 years of experience in test development. Minimum 2 years of experience leading a small team. Excellent understanding of Swift. Excellent understanding of testing practices in an agile environment. Excellent understanding of iOS ecosystem. Experience with XCUITest. Experience with any of the following is an asset: Network principles and protocols such as HTTP, TLS and TCP. Experience with contract testing (PACT preferable). Web services technology such as REST and JSON. Continuous integration systems such as Jenkins. Knowledge of Appium. What you can expect: At Global Relay, there's no ceiling to what you can achieve. It's the land of opportunity for the energetic, the intelligent, the driven. You'll receive the mentoring, coaching, and support you need to reach your career goals. You'll be part of a culture that breeds creativity and rewards perseverance and hard work. And you'll be working alongside smart, talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with complementary knowledge and skills. Global Relay is an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We seek to ensure reasonable adjustments, accommodations, and personal time are tailored to meet the unique needs of every individual. We understand flexible work arrangements are important, and we encourage that in our work culture. Whether it's flexibility around work hours, workstyle, or lifestyle, we want to ensure our employees have a healthy work/life balance. We support and value a hybrid work model that blends collaboration with the team in the office and focus time from the comfort of your home.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplined agile squad in which you will be part of a project to transform the way customers interact with Admiral. We are building out an omni-channel customer contact centre, and we are looking for someone to help ensure that we build the best possible customer journeys. We are using tools such as Genesys, Google Cloud Platform, Dialogflow CX, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and TypeScript, among others. You will play a proactive role in improving our customer journeys and agent experiences, and delivering significant business value through our new omni-channel contact centre solution. About the Team You will be part of a newly created squad within the Contact Centre Hub Tribe, whose immediate objective is to reimagine and rebuild how we route customers through our contact centre using the Genesys platform. Additionally, you will be part of the QA chapter, which sits across several squads within the tribe. The teams follow Agile principles and best practices to deliver high-quality software, and we are always open to suggestions on how we can get even better. About You We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious engineer, who can think creatively to solve problems and collaborates well with others. You must be highly technical and passionate about quality assurance, applying shift-left, automate-first principles. We will be looking for you to use your experience to help shape how best to gain confidence in the quality of the system and provide mentorship and support to other team members. We are looking for someone who can work both independently and as part of a squad. We love for people to have opinions on how we can improve, and the ability to share those opinions productively. Responsibilities Within the multi-discipline Agile squad, you will be responsible for leading efforts to ensure the quality of the services and applications we are developing. This will include: Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks, harnesses and pipelines. Develop your T-shaped engineering skills, applying best practice, innovation and improvement to support and guide other technical disciplines. Break down the product roadmap to anticipate testing requirements and plan appropriate strategies. Analyse epic/feature requirements to define acceptance criteria and identify appropriate levels of testing. Assess, write and execute comprehensive, effective and robust tests following our automate-first approach, but knowing where there is more value in manually validating ACs. Lead the QA effort in all sprint ceremonies, clearly communicating QA approach, plans and status, and constantly striving for improvement across the entire SDLC. Support and mentor other members of the team and actively help develop our Community of Practice in QA. Embrace Continuous Testing principles, and drive towards our organisational objective of Continuous Deployment. Work directly with the Product Owner and Squad Lead functions to provide technical guidance and help develop solutions to support the product roadmap. Support or lead the deployment of changes into the production environment and aid in the investigation of live issues or incidents. Essential Skills and Experience Experience of testing complex IT projects through to completion, resulting in delivery of robust and high-quality applications using best practices is essential. Excellent engineering skills with proven experience of designing, building and maintaining automated testing frameworks. Excellent skills with Typescript (Or alternative OOP language considered). Experience of using Cloud technologies e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc. Excellent understanding and experience of Web and API testing technologies and frameworks. A passion to learn new skills, tools, and new problem domains. Demonstrable skills in thinking about test coverage holistically and guiding the team to improvements. Experience providing mentorship or coaching junior engineers and transferring knowledge to other members of the team. Evidence of how you have improved the maturity of the QA function around you. Experience of working in an agile environment and collaborating with other capabilities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills (both technical and non-technical). Desirable Skills and Experience Knowledge of the Genesys platform, telephony systems or contact centres. Experience in Playwright, ViTest and other testing frameworks. Experience of integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline. Experience testing SaaS, Enterprise and traditional in-house developed applications. Experience in testing conversation design flows. Understanding of the implications of testing product built using a low code SaaS product. Experience in using TDD and BDD development methodologies. Demonstrate test framework implementations on more than one tech stack. Experience with Non-Functional Testing including performance and security testing. Interview Process This will be an online test and two-stage interviews via MS Teams. Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate's experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package. At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible. All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation. You can also view some of our other key benefits here . Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
09/05/2025
Full time
This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplined agile squad in which you will be part of a project to transform the way customers interact with Admiral. We are building out an omni-channel customer contact centre, and we are looking for someone to help ensure that we build the best possible customer journeys. We are using tools such as Genesys, Google Cloud Platform, Dialogflow CX, Azure DevOps, Terraform, and TypeScript, among others. You will play a proactive role in improving our customer journeys and agent experiences, and delivering significant business value through our new omni-channel contact centre solution. About the Team You will be part of a newly created squad within the Contact Centre Hub Tribe, whose immediate objective is to reimagine and rebuild how we route customers through our contact centre using the Genesys platform. Additionally, you will be part of the QA chapter, which sits across several squads within the tribe. The teams follow Agile principles and best practices to deliver high-quality software, and we are always open to suggestions on how we can get even better. About You We are looking for an enthusiastic and curious engineer, who can think creatively to solve problems and collaborates well with others. You must be highly technical and passionate about quality assurance, applying shift-left, automate-first principles. We will be looking for you to use your experience to help shape how best to gain confidence in the quality of the system and provide mentorship and support to other team members. We are looking for someone who can work both independently and as part of a squad. We love for people to have opinions on how we can improve, and the ability to share those opinions productively. Responsibilities Within the multi-discipline Agile squad, you will be responsible for leading efforts to ensure the quality of the services and applications we are developing. This will include: Design, build and maintain test automation frameworks, harnesses and pipelines. Develop your T-shaped engineering skills, applying best practice, innovation and improvement to support and guide other technical disciplines. Break down the product roadmap to anticipate testing requirements and plan appropriate strategies. Analyse epic/feature requirements to define acceptance criteria and identify appropriate levels of testing. Assess, write and execute comprehensive, effective and robust tests following our automate-first approach, but knowing where there is more value in manually validating ACs. Lead the QA effort in all sprint ceremonies, clearly communicating QA approach, plans and status, and constantly striving for improvement across the entire SDLC. Support and mentor other members of the team and actively help develop our Community of Practice in QA. Embrace Continuous Testing principles, and drive towards our organisational objective of Continuous Deployment. Work directly with the Product Owner and Squad Lead functions to provide technical guidance and help develop solutions to support the product roadmap. Support or lead the deployment of changes into the production environment and aid in the investigation of live issues or incidents. Essential Skills and Experience Experience of testing complex IT projects through to completion, resulting in delivery of robust and high-quality applications using best practices is essential. Excellent engineering skills with proven experience of designing, building and maintaining automated testing frameworks. Excellent skills with Typescript (Or alternative OOP language considered). Experience of using Cloud technologies e.g. Azure, Google Cloud Platform etc. Excellent understanding and experience of Web and API testing technologies and frameworks. A passion to learn new skills, tools, and new problem domains. Demonstrable skills in thinking about test coverage holistically and guiding the team to improvements. Experience providing mentorship or coaching junior engineers and transferring knowledge to other members of the team. Evidence of how you have improved the maturity of the QA function around you. Experience of working in an agile environment and collaborating with other capabilities. Excellent written and verbal communication skills (both technical and non-technical). Desirable Skills and Experience Knowledge of the Genesys platform, telephony systems or contact centres. Experience in Playwright, ViTest and other testing frameworks. Experience of integrating automated testing into a CI/CD pipeline. Experience testing SaaS, Enterprise and traditional in-house developed applications. Experience in testing conversation design flows. Understanding of the implications of testing product built using a low code SaaS product. Experience in using TDD and BDD development methodologies. Demonstrate test framework implementations on more than one tech stack. Experience with Non-Functional Testing including performance and security testing. Interview Process This will be an online test and two-stage interviews via MS Teams. Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate's experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package. At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to work for in the UK. We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible. All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation. You can also view some of our other key benefits here . Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Palantir's Identity team, you will design, develop, and maintain core authentication and authorisation services. Your work will enhance the security and usability of identity governance workflows and access management for Palantirians and our customers globally. Your approach will emphasise secure-by-design principles, embedding security considerations into every phase of the software development lifecycle. By adopting shift-left security practices, you will proactively address security concerns early in the development process, ensuring that our systems are resilient against emerging threats. The Identity team is composed of engineers dedicated to reducing risk, minimising friction, and eliminating toil. Our primary focus is developing identity platforms for both corporate and customer-facing infrastructure. As part of the team, you will create innovative web services that ensure compliance for Palantirians while minimising disruptions to their productivity. Your contributions will directly enhance the resilience of Palantir's critical infrastructure, empowering a global network of customers and employees while maintaining strong security controls with minimal impact on productivity. You will also play a key role in mentoring teammates and leading projects, driving both individual and team growth. Core Responsibilities Architect and design new identity and security services with a focus on scalability and resiliency Develop scalable services for workforce, customer and workload authentication and authorisation Build services that help with mitigating identity related security risks, enforcing compliance requirements and enhance the security posture of Palantir Engineer automation frameworks that scale the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations across multiple Entra ID tenants Build tooling to standardise and scale operational workflows in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Design and build REST APIs that enable zero-touch, end-to-end automation of Identity and Access Management resources Research and drive the implementation of secure authentication protocols (like passwordless auth) by collaborating with Security Engineers What We Value Ability to work backwards from user needs, demonstrating empathy to create intuitive and secure solutions that empower users Expertise in developing secure, scalable distributed services and REST APIs Experience in mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team Familiarity with access control models (RBAC, ABAC, etc.) and user lifecycle management workflows What We Require 5+ years of software development experience 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems Strong coding skills with expert-level proficiency in at least one of the following languages - Java (preferred), Golang, C++, Python or Rust Technical proficiency in identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthN) Life at Palantir We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that's why we celebrate individuals' strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians' lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region. In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office. If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
09/05/2025
Full time
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Senior Software Engineer on Palantir's Identity team, you will design, develop, and maintain core authentication and authorisation services. Your work will enhance the security and usability of identity governance workflows and access management for Palantirians and our customers globally. Your approach will emphasise secure-by-design principles, embedding security considerations into every phase of the software development lifecycle. By adopting shift-left security practices, you will proactively address security concerns early in the development process, ensuring that our systems are resilient against emerging threats. The Identity team is composed of engineers dedicated to reducing risk, minimising friction, and eliminating toil. Our primary focus is developing identity platforms for both corporate and customer-facing infrastructure. As part of the team, you will create innovative web services that ensure compliance for Palantirians while minimising disruptions to their productivity. Your contributions will directly enhance the resilience of Palantir's critical infrastructure, empowering a global network of customers and employees while maintaining strong security controls with minimal impact on productivity. You will also play a key role in mentoring teammates and leading projects, driving both individual and team growth. Core Responsibilities Architect and design new identity and security services with a focus on scalability and resiliency Develop scalable services for workforce, customer and workload authentication and authorisation Build services that help with mitigating identity related security risks, enforcing compliance requirements and enhance the security posture of Palantir Engineer automation frameworks that scale the implementation of Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations across multiple Entra ID tenants Build tooling to standardise and scale operational workflows in AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Design and build REST APIs that enable zero-touch, end-to-end automation of Identity and Access Management resources Research and drive the implementation of secure authentication protocols (like passwordless auth) by collaborating with Security Engineers What We Value Ability to work backwards from user needs, demonstrating empathy to create intuitive and secure solutions that empower users Expertise in developing secure, scalable distributed services and REST APIs Experience in mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team Familiarity with access control models (RBAC, ABAC, etc.) and user lifecycle management workflows What We Require 5+ years of software development experience 2+ years of experience contributing to the system design or architecture (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems Strong coding skills with expert-level proficiency in at least one of the following languages - Java (preferred), Golang, C++, Python or Rust Technical proficiency in identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, LDAP, Kerberos, FIDO2, WebAuthN) Life at Palantir We want every Palantirian to achieve their best outcomes, that's why we celebrate individuals' strengths, skills, and interests, from your first interview to your longterm growth, rather than rely on traditional career ladders. Paying attention to the needs of our community enables us to optimize our opportunities to grow and helps ensure many pathways to success at Palantir. Promoting health and well-being across all areas of Palantirians' lives is just one of the ways we're investing in our community. Learn more at Life at Palantir and note that our offerings may vary by region. In keeping consistent with Palantir's values and culture, we believe employees are "better together" and in-person work affords the opportunity for more creative outcomes. Therefore, we encourage employees to work from our offices to foster connectivity and innovation. Many teams do offer hybrid options (WFH a day or two a week), allowing our employees to strike the right trade-off for their personal productivity. Based on business need, there are a few roles that allow for "Remote" work on an exceptional basis. If you are applying for one of these roles, you must work from the city and or country in which you are employed. If the posting is specified as Onsite, you are required to work from an office. If you want to empower the world's most important institutions, you belong here. Palantir values excellence regardless of background. We are committed to making the application and hiring process accessible to everyone and will provide a reasonable accommodation for those living with a disability. If you need an accommodation for the application or hiring process, please reach out and let us know how we can help.
Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard. For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team's health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements. Job responsibilities You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns. You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible. You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients. You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices. You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way. You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems. You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development. You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between. You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills. Job qualifications Technical Skills You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming. You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban. You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools. Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker. Professional Skills You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed. Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more. You're resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives. Other things to know Learning & Development There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys. About Thoughtworks Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we're pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let's be extraordinary.
08/05/2025
Full time
Senior Software Developers collaborate with Business and Quality Analysts, Designers, Project Managers and more to design software solutions that will create meaningful change for our clients. They listen thoughtfully to understand the context of a business problem and write clean and iterative code to deliver a powerful end result whilst consistently advocating for better engineering practices. By balancing strong opinions with a willingness to find the right answer, Senior Software Developers bring integrity to technology, ensuring all voices are heard. For a team to thrive, it needs collaboration and room for healthy, respectful debate. Senior Developers are the technologists who cultivate this environment while driving teams toward delivering on an aspirational tech vision and acting as mentors for more junior-level consultants. You will leverage deep technical knowledge to solve complex business problems and proactively assess your team's health, code quality and nonfunctional requirements. Job responsibilities You will learn and adopt best practices like writing clean and reusable code using TDD, pair programming and design patterns. You will use and advocate for continuous delivery practices to deliver high-quality software as well as value to end customers as early as possible. You will work in collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients. You will create large-scale distributed systems out of microservices. You will collaborate with a variety of teammates to build features, design concepts and interactive prototypes and ensure best practices and UX specifications are embedded along the way. You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems. You will efficiently utilize DevSecOps tools and practices to build and deploy software, advocating devops culture and shifting security left in development. You will oversee or take part in the entire cycle of software consulting and delivery from ideation to deployment and everything in between. You will act as a mentor for less-experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills. Job qualifications Technical Skills You can skillfully write high-quality, well-tested code and you are comfortable with Object-Oriented programming. You are comfortable with Agile methodologies, such as Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum and/or Kanban. You have a good awareness of TDD, continuous integration and continuous delivery approaches/tools. Bonus points if you have working knowledge of cloud technology such as AWS, Azure, Kubernetes and Docker. Professional Skills You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed. Presence in the external tech community: you willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more. You're resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives. Other things to know Learning & Development There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys. About Thoughtworks Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we're pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let's be extraordinary.
Senior Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £120,000|20% BONUS We are delighted to be partnered with a global financial services organisation who are looking to hire an experienced senior software engineer to join their innovative team to work on exciting greenfield projects within financial services. You will be joining a diverse, cross functional team who all share a passion and obsession for all things tech. Key Responsibilities: Work alongside the Head of Client Digital Technology Highly technical engineering role for an software developer with a demonstrated track record of building commercial applications in Scala Supply and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the platform Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions Research and suggest for new projects for the Equities platform Resolve complex problems through in-depth evaluation of sophisticated architectures, business processes and industry standards. Key Requirements: Advanced Scala programming (8+ years) Strong understanding of Scala including Akka (for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient applications), Play Framework (for web applications), Cats/Scalaz (for functional programming abstractions) Advanced knowledge of Domain driven Design and event architecture. Experience building and maintaining dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab. Experience of using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology Knowledge of using eventing and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka and MQ Experience with cloud (preferably AWS) Desire to learn, improve and innovate, with high development standards No Sponsorship offered. Senior Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £120,000|20% BONUS For more information please send your CV to me on (see below)
08/05/2025
Full time
Senior Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £120,000|20% BONUS We are delighted to be partnered with a global financial services organisation who are looking to hire an experienced senior software engineer to join their innovative team to work on exciting greenfield projects within financial services. You will be joining a diverse, cross functional team who all share a passion and obsession for all things tech. Key Responsibilities: Work alongside the Head of Client Digital Technology Highly technical engineering role for an software developer with a demonstrated track record of building commercial applications in Scala Supply and guide the program initiatives in engineering excellence and learning and development Build, deliver and maintain the multiple components of the platform Serve as advisor to develop highly resilient and future proof solutions Research and suggest for new projects for the Equities platform Resolve complex problems through in-depth evaluation of sophisticated architectures, business processes and industry standards. Key Requirements: Advanced Scala programming (8+ years) Strong understanding of Scala including Akka (for building concurrent, distributed, and resilient applications), Play Framework (for web applications), Cats/Scalaz (for functional programming abstractions) Advanced knowledge of Domain driven Design and event architecture. Experience building and maintaining dev-ops pipelines for delivering applications ideally using GitLab. Experience of using shift left testing principles and frameworks using technology such as Junit, Cucumber, Gherkin, Contract Test (PACT), TestContainers or other similar technology Knowledge of using eventing and messaging infrastructure such as Kafka and MQ Experience with cloud (preferably AWS) Desire to learn, improve and innovate, with high development standards No Sponsorship offered. Senior Lead Scala Engineer | HYBRID (London 2 days a week) | Up to £120,000|20% BONUS For more information please send your CV to me on (see below)
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test Competitive Salary + Benefits + Bonus Home Working/London EMEA HQ Permanent, Full Time As a trusted and preferred recruitment partner to this leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the global financial sector, we have been asked to assist in the hire of several Lead Software Development Engineer in Test's (SDETs). You will oversee testing resources on a highly focussed team and will ensure testing strategies are applied with a focus on shift-left testing principles. Already benefiting from a dominance in the North American finance industry, our client is expanding it is London operations to better serve the UK and EU markets. This is an exciting time to join, and you will have the option to work from predominantly from home or within their state-of-the-art EMEA HQ in London. Core Requirements *Experience in Test Development and Leading Small Teams as a Lead SDET *Experience of Java and Object-Oriented Principles *Applying Test Practices in an Agile Environment *Unit Testing Frameworks such as JUnit *Testing Backend Systems or APIs *A mix of the following oTesting performance with JMeter or similar oWeb Services (REST, JSON, Thrift) oTesting Web Apps with Selenium WebDriver oBig Data Technologies (Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka, SQL) oNetwork principles/protocols (HTTP, TLS, TCP) oContinuous Integration (Jenkins, Bamboo) oContinuous Delivery Concepts Role Overview: Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs. Drive teams testing and automation strategies. Define/organise teams test planning for releases. Design/code automation frameworks, tests, and tools. Participate in team planning, story grooming, test execution, issue identification/resolution. Propose/implement improvements to processes. Develop/maintain shared testing libraries. Provide training/mentorship. Conduct code reviews, improve/maintain quality of automation code. Document automation framework, tools, and infrastructure. Alongside a competitive salary DOE, you will receive a benefits package which includes 25 Days Holiday (increases with service), Private Medical Cover, Bupa Dental Cover, Life Insurance, Income Protection, Secondment Opportunities to Global HQ in Vancouver, Pension Scheme (increases with service up to 7% employer contribution), Bonus Scheme (up to 8% dependent on revenues and team performance), Flexible Working. This position would be suitable for those who have held any of the following job titles, Lead SDET, Senior SDET, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Lead Software Development Engineer in Test, Developer in Test. Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK's leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK's leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over twenty years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialist. We will never send your CV anywhere without your authorisation and only after you have seen the complete details on this opportunity. Deerfoot is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Each time Deerfoot sends a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation ().
05/11/2021
Full time
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test Competitive Salary + Benefits + Bonus Home Working/London EMEA HQ Permanent, Full Time As a trusted and preferred recruitment partner to this leading global provider of cloud-based solutions to the global financial sector, we have been asked to assist in the hire of several Lead Software Development Engineer in Test's (SDETs). You will oversee testing resources on a highly focussed team and will ensure testing strategies are applied with a focus on shift-left testing principles. Already benefiting from a dominance in the North American finance industry, our client is expanding it is London operations to better serve the UK and EU markets. This is an exciting time to join, and you will have the option to work from predominantly from home or within their state-of-the-art EMEA HQ in London. Core Requirements *Experience in Test Development and Leading Small Teams as a Lead SDET *Experience of Java and Object-Oriented Principles *Applying Test Practices in an Agile Environment *Unit Testing Frameworks such as JUnit *Testing Backend Systems or APIs *A mix of the following oTesting performance with JMeter or similar oWeb Services (REST, JSON, Thrift) oTesting Web Apps with Selenium WebDriver oBig Data Technologies (Hadoop, MongoDB, Kafka, SQL) oNetwork principles/protocols (HTTP, TLS, TCP) oContinuous Integration (Jenkins, Bamboo) oContinuous Delivery Concepts Role Overview: Manage performance assessments and hiring for a small team of SDETs. Drive teams testing and automation strategies. Define/organise teams test planning for releases. Design/code automation frameworks, tests, and tools. Participate in team planning, story grooming, test execution, issue identification/resolution. Propose/implement improvements to processes. Develop/maintain shared testing libraries. Provide training/mentorship. Conduct code reviews, improve/maintain quality of automation code. Document automation framework, tools, and infrastructure. Alongside a competitive salary DOE, you will receive a benefits package which includes 25 Days Holiday (increases with service), Private Medical Cover, Bupa Dental Cover, Life Insurance, Income Protection, Secondment Opportunities to Global HQ in Vancouver, Pension Scheme (increases with service up to 7% employer contribution), Bonus Scheme (up to 8% dependent on revenues and team performance), Flexible Working. This position would be suitable for those who have held any of the following job titles, Lead SDET, Senior SDET, Senior Software Development Engineer in Test, Lead Software Development Engineer in Test, Developer in Test. Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd is one of the UK's leading IT Recruitment Agencies, trusted by many of the UK's leading employers. Established in 1997, we have over twenty years of experience as IT Recruitment Specialist. We will never send your CV anywhere without your authorisation and only after you have seen the complete details on this opportunity. Deerfoot is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Each time Deerfoot sends a CV to a recruiting client we donate £1 to The Born Free Foundation ().
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