Job Description:

About the role:

Our engineers operate in small, focused, multidisciplinary, and highly autonomous teams of around 4 to 6 people. Our teams tend to include:

  • A hands-on Lead Engineer who spends time focusing on product alignment, technical alignment, and people, as well as coding.
  • A QA Engineer who represents quality throughout the team and encourages critical thinking as well as supporting automation.
  • Software Engineers who help with business analysis, writing tests and code, and operating the components that the team owns.

Responsibilities:

All our engineers have end-to-end responsibility. They’re involved from early on in the product design process all the way through to monitoring and operation. With this responsibility comes trust. Our engineers are empowered to use the best tool for the job. We encourage engineers to be innovative, always thinking about the best ways to give value to our clients.

Our teams are always finding ways to make themselves more agile, and most teams use a “Scrumban” style of work, stand-ups, retrospectives, planning, and refining. Teams move rapidly, releasing at least once a day. We practise continuous integration and testing, and sometimes continuous delivery. Testing is very important to our process, and we strive for high levels of unit and end-to-end test coverage.

Our teams are currently focusing on:

  • Building high coverage for Codat's API across third-party software platforms. This includes building data formats into our financial data standard.
  • Reliably and quickly processing huge amounts of financial data into our data cache and query engine.
  • Building additional products on top of our core API to unlock the power of our clients' data, through the movement of data between sources, or data visualisation.
  • Best in class monitoring and operations tools to allow both ourselves and our clients to find, and fix, data issues early.

Our Technology:

Our system is entirely hosted on Microsoft's Azure cloud platform, and is built on modern .NET Core, utilising the latest .NET features. Our system is service-based, and leverages Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, and SQL Server to ingest and process large amounts of data reliably and efficiently.

Requirements:

  • We use a mix of technologies at Codat, but most are services supplied by Azure and leveraged using C#, we like engineers that like to keep up to date with C# and have an interest in design patterns.
  • Our apps work extensively with the .NET web stack and knowledge of ASP.NET and REST APIs is really helpful.
  • Clear and concise communicators; we expect Engineers to collaborate with other team members, including developers, quality assurance engineers and product stakeholders outside of Engineering.
  • We have a passion for testing and working with frameworks like XUnit (or similar) to do behaviour and data driven unit tests.
  • We really like engineers that are self-motivated, have a logical and systematic approach to problems solving, but understand things work best when we work as a team, are approachable, open minded, and patient.
  • A lot of the problems we solve at Codat are about standardising data from various sources, this is a different set of problems to many software businesses, and we really like engineers who enjoy working with data and puzzling out problems that may not be obviously solved. A good head for financial systems helps, but isn’t necessary.

Salary Banding:

  • £35,000 - £90,000 / year Our salary banding reflects the fact that we're open to various technical levels for this role!

Company Benefits

  • Share Options scheme, empowering everyone to share in our success
  • 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) '- In person optional policy'- working in the office is entirely your choice
  • Team lunches, Company Socials, office snacks and roof top barbecues
  • Professionally led Yoga classes, office football team and Cycle to Work Scheme
  • Work alongside some of the UK's best Software Engineering talent
  • Cutting-edge and always evolving tech stack
  • Fun, fast paced, directly see your impact and full autonomy
  • Personal development and professional growth focused culture
  • Modern, airy and dog-friendly offices with private roof terrace

Interview Process

  • Phone call with Talent Acquisition
  • 30 minute phone interview
  • 2 hour interview with a Paired programming exercise and chat

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