Senior Backend Engineer

at  Sproutai

Salary banding: £74,000 - £104,000 dependent on experience
Working pattern: Hybrid; 1-2 days per week in the office
Location: London

REQUIREMENTS

• Technical proficiency
• Strong experience working in fully cloud-hosted environments (e.g., AWS) along with Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform) and Kubernetes.
• Strong proficiency in software architecture using Python or similar backend programming languages
• Solid RDBMS experience, preferably with PostgreSQL
• Experience building RESTful APIs (e.g. FastAPI) and real-time data processing pipelines
• Bonus points for experience with Apache Flink and Flux
• Deep understanding of modern software development lifecycles, including code quality, pull requests, code reviews, CI/CD, QA, and production releases in an agile, fast-paced environment
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to think critically and creatively
• Collaborative by nature, with excellent communication and teamwork abilities
• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

ROLE SUMMARY

We are looking for an engineer passionate about developer enablement and infrastructure as code, who is eager to expand their expertise by contributing to impactful product features. You’ll play a key role in improving the lives of millions of insurance policyholders globally, working with a modern and powerful technology stack that includes:

• Python for application development
• Terraform for AWS infrastructure provisioning
• Kubernetes (with Helm and Flux) for managing services
• GitLab for CI/CD and version control
• AWS as our infrastructure platform
• PostgreSQL for application data and event sourcing architecture
• Apache Flink for real-time service interactions and state management

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with different stakeholders across the business like engineers, product, engagement team to understand a problem space within your area, propose solutions, and own the end to end delivery of complex projects.
• Own and maintain specific parts of our stack with best in class engineering practices.
• Write comprehensive unit, integration and end-to-end automated tests in the backend for customer-facing features.
• Lead on platform-facing work, using infrastructure-as-code (AWS, terraform, k8s) to ensure our platform is reliable and scalable.
• Take a lead in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and keep to date with latest trends in the industry.
• Provide mentoring to other members of the Engineering and Data Science teams.
• Lead in the continuous improvement of the processes and ways of working for the engineering team.
• Manage feature rollouts with multiple releases per day by utilising feature flags, metrics, logs and alerting.
• Champion the Engineering and Sprout company values