Backend Engineer - Mid Level

at  Seatfrog

SALARY: £55-70K

Seatfrog is here to make rail better. Because more, happier passengers makes for a better, happier world. And who doesn’t want that?
Born out of a hellishly uncomfortable train journey, we know how frustrating train travel can be. So we’re on a mission to build a better future for billions of passengers and the rail companies. Our app is the only place you can bid to upgrade your train ticket to First Class. And we’ve created a family of products that’s disrupting the industry and offers travellers a more convenient, cost-effective and unrivalled experience.
Without our users we would be nothing, but without our partners we would have no product. Both are the flywheel that make us an up and coming powerhouse in UK rail. We’re building a stellar team to achieve our audacious goals and we’re on the lookout for two Backend Engineers who will help take our product to the next level.

ABOUT THE TEAMS YOU’LL BE JOINING

We’re looking for two Backend Engineers. One will join our Enterprise Squad lead by Olu, our Engineering Manager. You’ll work alongside three Senior Developers, a Principle Engineer, an ML Engineer, Data Engineer and Platform Engineer. You’ll also be partnered with Lucy, our Product Manager for Enterprise.
The other successful engineer will join the Passenger Squad lead by Sophie, our Engineering Manager for everything Frontend. You’ll join seven other Engineers of varying seniorities across Android and iOS, and partner with Ulrike, our Product Manager for Passengers.
What a couple of dream teams.

You’ll need experience with:

• 4-6 Years as a Backend Engineer (ish)
• .Net, Typescript, and a bit of PHP would be good too
• Startup or scaleup (or similar environment)
• Building rest API’s & deploying these into cloud infrastructure
• Provisioning cloud resources using IAC
• Strong product teams
• Communicating internally and externally
• Knowledge sharing across a team with a broad range of experience
• Juggling priorities
• Asking and answering tough questions
• Leveraging T shaped experience: strong in a few technologies, broad understanding outside their specialty
• Being creative. We’re building the future of rail, so there’s tons of unknowns and challenges. If you’re good at getting round problems, this is the perfect place to b

THE ROLE

As a Backend Engineer you’ll work cross functionally on a whole range of challenges. From optimising existing products, to building new ones, to triaging and fixing issues raised by customers and clients, you’ll partner with customer support, product, and Enterprise to make Seatfrog slicker, more efficient, and profitable.
You’ll span across multiple duties. From Helpdesk triage and bug fixes, to evolving legacy codebase (PHP, Symphony), to building integrations for new clients, you’ll have T-shaped experience that allows you to chop and change what you’re focussing on, delivering impactful solutions across multiple domains. You might find yourself working with Microservices (.Net, Typescript), or Lambdas (Typescript). Whatever you do you’ll be contributing to the turning parts that make up the Seatfrog platform.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Work with your team either in pairs during a project or looking at how to solve particular problems
• Brief work either to internal or external developers
• Build amazing projects through cross team collaboration
• Perform your own tech discovery
• Make rational calls on speed vs robustness based on the needs of the company and the project
• Work closely with customer support to triage and fix issues when on help desk duty

You’ll need experience with:

• 4-6 Years as a Backend Engineer (ish)
• .Net, Typescript, and a bit of PHP would be good too
• Startup or scaleup (or similar environment)
• Building rest API’s & deploying these into cloud infrastructure
• Provisioning cloud resources using IAC
• Strong product teams
• Communicating internally and externally
• Knowledge sharing across a team with a broad range of experience
• Juggling priorities
• Asking and answering tough questions
• Leveraging T shaped experience: strong in a few technologies, broad understanding outside their specialty
• Being creative. We’re building the future of rail, so there’s tons of unknowns and challenges. If you’re good at getting round problems, this is the perfect place to be