Staff Engineer (Backend)
Attest Technologies
- London
- £100,000-125,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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.
- Work from anywhere up to 20 days a year
- 25 days holiday per year plus additional festive days
- £240 yearly learning and development budget, plus access to a larger budget for qualifications and courses
- Private Medical Insurance
- 1 days per-quarter to do charity or community work
- Enhanced parental leave (18 weeks paid leave for Primary carer)
- Up to 12 weeks paid leave for premature births and neonatal care
- Paid leave for IVF and fertility treatment and pregnancy loss
- Access to confidential therapy through Spill
- Share options
- You love Embracing the Future and use data and feedback to solve problems,whether leading or from the back seat
- You are Outcome Focused 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 like to Win Together, 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 optimization and efficiency. You're not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value.
- You Embrace the Future and help bring others along with you.
- You are concerned with structure, every opinion at Attest is just as loud and valid.
- You don't want to get your hands dirty in squad-owned production code, this isn't just the fun architecture bits.
- You like to maintain the status quo and are adverse to change.
- You tend to risk losing valuable insights by focusing on eliminating the flaws