Software Engineer II

at  GITHUB INC

Remote, Scotland, United Kingdom -

Start DateExpiry DateSalaryPosted OnExperienceSkillsTelecommuteSponsor Visa
Immediate20 Dec, 2024GBP 83200 Annual25 Sep, 2024N/AComputer Engineering,Team Culture,Agile Environment,Computer Science,Git,Github,React.Js,Languages,Physics,Software Coding,CollaborationNoNo
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Description:

About GitHub: As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Locations: In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom
Overview:
As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.
We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Qualifications:

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
  • OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field AND experience
  • OR Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
  • OR equivalent experience.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience with Git and GitHub
  • Experience using Azure technologies is a bonus
  • Experience using front-end frameworks like React.js
  • Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs
  • Strong written and verbal communication skill
  • Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
  • Comfortable working transparently in an agile environment and soliciting feedback from peers.
    GitHub Leadership Principles:

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, pairing opportunities, and code reviews to encourage the growth of others.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)

Computer Software/Engineering

IT Software - System Programming

Software Engineering

Graduate

Computer Science, Electrical, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Math

Proficient

1

Remote, United Kingdom