Tessian

We believe technology should secure the digital interactions of employees without compromising user experience or productivity. That’s why we’re building the world’s first Human Layer Security platform.

We’re a team of mathematicians, data scientists & engineers building breakthrough machine learning and natural language technologies to analyse, understand & protect enterprise email networks.

Tessian is backed by leading technology investors Sequoia Capital and Accel who have helped build many industry defining companies including Stripe, Spotify, Crowdstrike and Docker.

We'd love to hear from you.

Engineering at Tessian

Read more about Engineering at Tessian: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/tessian

Find out more about life as a Tessian Engineer: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1670277/Life%20as%20a%20Tessianeer.pdf

As a high-growth scale-up, our email datasets are growing at an exponential rate. This is a great problem to have as it allows us to train best-in-class machine learning models to prevent previously unpreventable data breaches. We have scaled to the point where our current data pipelines are not where we want them to be, this is why we’re looking to hire our first Big Data Backend Engineer.

You will sit in our Defender Algo team and work day-to-day with our Data Scientists and Engineers to engineer solutions to iterate quickly on terabytes of data. We view this role as a hugely impactful, high-leverage role and strongly believe that if we can can query all of our data, in near real-time and using scalable systems then we can deliver more value to our clients through the data breaches we prevent.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building systems to efficiently handle our ever increasing volume of data
• Designing and implementing data pipelines as well as owning the vision of what our systems could achieve in the future
• Working with Data Scientists to train, version, test, deploy and monitor our machine learning models in production
• Designing systems to expose data to our product and engineering teams in a performant way
• Mentoring the Data Science team on how to work with data at scale

We're looking for someone who:

• Is a highly-skilled developer who understands software engineering best practices (git, CI/CD, testing, reviewing, etc)
• Has experience working with distributed data systems such as Spark
• Has deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and has managed AWS production environments
• Has experience with Docker and container orchestration systems like AWS ECS and Kubernetes

Some interesting projects we're working on: 

• An ETL pipeline transforming millions of tiny files on AWS Glue to the Parquet file format for efficient querying
• Designing existing pipelines to use Spark setting ourselves up to handle massive future scale
• Building a new Flask app framework allowing us to standardise how we deploy all models to production
• Dumping terabytes of data from production databases, in real-time in a performant, scalable and secure way
• Building a lightweight data labelling system designed specifically for labelling emails at scale

Why we think you'll love it here: 

• It’s important to us that all Tessians are part of the journey we’re on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark to provide above market rate salaries - there’s plenty more too….

Be at your best, both inside and outside of work

• A full week of work-remote a year, in addition to 25 days of paid holiday
• Flexible working hours and working from home
• Curate your career with development experiences uniquely suited to you
• We’re family friendly, with policies built to support you in all stages of life
• High-quality tech kit provided for you to work on including Tessian ANC headphones
• If you're relocating to join the team, we'll provide a contribution to help with your costs 

Because everyone loves food...

• A plethora of breakfast options, delicious snacks, drinks and a top-of-the-range coffee machine
• Team lunch provided on Fridays - normally with more hummus than you can shake a stick at
• Dinner budget for those times you just can’t tear yourself away

Beyond work

• Elite membership of the Tessian House System...
• On Fridays we stop at 5 and share team updates and drinks
• Monthly team socials & a big, whole team extravaganza every quarter
• Never-ending ping-pong tournaments

Equality & diversity

Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we're securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here.

As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we're also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM, our CFO is the Chair of the WISE Campaign's Young Professionals' Board, & we're a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups.

Important notices

Please note that we do not accept applications or résumés from recruiters. Any unsolicited CVs, profiles, or names, submitted in any format, by any channel, to any of our team, will be deemed to fall outside any terms and/or conditions with either the person submitting the information or their company of employment/representation.

By submitting your application to Tessian, you consent to Tessian retaining your information and contacting you about future job opportunities, that may be of interest, for up to 2 years in accordance with our Privacy Policy

Please note, that any job offers will be subject to the candidate passing background screening checks.

Tessian

We believe technology should secure the digital interactions of employees without compromising user experience or productivity. That’s why we’re building the world’s first Human Layer Security platform.

We’re a team of mathematicians, data scientists & engineers building breakthrough machine learning and natural language technologies to analyse, understand & protect enterprise email networks.

Tessian is backed by leading technology investors Sequoia Capital and Accel who have helped build many industry defining companies including Stripe, Spotify, Crowdstrike and Docker.

We'd love to hear from you.

Engineering at Tessian

Read more about Engineering at Tessian: https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/companies/tessian

Find out more about life as a Tessian Engineer: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/1670277/Life%20as%20a%20Tessianeer.pdf

As a high-growth scale-up, our email datasets are growing at an exponential rate. This is a great problem to have as it allows us to train best-in-class machine learning models to prevent previously unpreventable data breaches. We have scaled to the point where our current data pipelines are not where we want them to be, this is why we’re looking to hire our first Big Data Backend Engineer.

You will sit in our Defender Algo team and work day-to-day with our Data Scientists and Engineers to engineer solutions to iterate quickly on terabytes of data. We view this role as a hugely impactful, high-leverage role and strongly believe that if we can can query all of our data, in near real-time and using scalable systems then we can deliver more value to our clients through the data breaches we prevent.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Building systems to efficiently handle our ever increasing volume of data
• Designing and implementing data pipelines as well as owning the vision of what our systems could achieve in the future
• Working with Data Scientists to train, version, test, deploy and monitor our machine learning models in production
• Designing systems to expose data to our product and engineering teams in a performant way
• Mentoring the Data Science team on how to work with data at scale

We're looking for someone who:

• Is a highly-skilled developer who understands software engineering best practices (git, CI/CD, testing, reviewing, etc)
• Has experience working with distributed data systems such as Spark
• Has deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem and has managed AWS production environments
• Has experience with Docker and container orchestration systems like AWS ECS and Kubernetes

Some interesting projects we're working on: 

• An ETL pipeline transforming millions of tiny files on AWS Glue to the Parquet file format for efficient querying
• Designing existing pipelines to use Spark setting ourselves up to handle massive future scale
• Building a new Flask app framework allowing us to standardise how we deploy all models to production
• Dumping terabytes of data from production databases, in real-time in a performant, scalable and secure way
• Building a lightweight data labelling system designed specifically for labelling emails at scale

Why we think you'll love it here: 

• It’s important to us that all Tessians are part of the journey we’re on, so we offer equity options with every role and benchmark to provide above market rate salaries - there’s plenty more too….

Be at your best, both inside and outside of work

• A full week of work-remote a year, in addition to 25 days of paid holiday
• Flexible working hours and working from home
• Curate your career with development experiences uniquely suited to you
• We’re family friendly, with policies built to support you in all stages of life
• High-quality tech kit provided for you to work on including Tessian ANC headphones
• If you're relocating to join the team, we'll provide a contribution to help with your costs 

Because everyone loves food...

• A plethora of breakfast options, delicious snacks, drinks and a top-of-the-range coffee machine
• Team lunch provided on Fridays - normally with more hummus than you can shake a stick at
• Dinner budget for those times you just can’t tear yourself away

Beyond work

• Elite membership of the Tessian House System...
• On Fridays we stop at 5 and share team updates and drinks
• Monthly team socials & a big, whole team extravaganza every quarter
• Never-ending ping-pong tournaments

Equality & diversity

Tessian is an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. The Human Layer we're securing is diverse, and we know we need to be diverse and inclusive to successfully create HLS that reflects this. You can read our equality and diversity statement here.

As part of our commitment to equality and diversity, we're also a corporate member of the WISE Campaign for gender equality in STEM, our CFO is the Chair of the WISE Campaign's Young Professionals' Board, & we're a founding member of the WEDS network driving diversity & inclusion in startups.

Important notices

Please note that we do not accept applications or résumés from recruiters. Any unsolicited CVs, profiles, or names, submitted in any format, by any channel, to any of our team, will be deemed to fall outside any terms and/or conditions with either the person submitting the information or their company of employment/representation.

By submitting your application to Tessian, you consent to Tessian retaining your information and contacting you about future job opportunities, that may be of interest, for up to 2 years in accordance with our Privacy Policy

Please note, that any job offers will be subject to the candidate passing background screening checks.

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

1. Intelligent Listing Engine:

• Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
• Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves

1. Intelligent Margin Hub:

• Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
• Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

1. Intelligent Listing Engine:

• Improve/mature current features:
  • Improve the management of products across channels
  • Add in social channels
  • Improving the data enrichment process
  • Introducing more self-service features
• Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
• Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows

1. Intelligent Margin Hub:

• Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
• Integrate into retailers back office platforms
• Report SKU level margin performance
• Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
• Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

• Intelligent Listing Engine
• Intelligent Margin Hub
• Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

• 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
• 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

• You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
• You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
• Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
• You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
• You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
• You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
• You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

• An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
• Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
• Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
• Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
• Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

• Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
• Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
• Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
• Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

• Experience with Kotlin.
• Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

• Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
• Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
• Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
• Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
• Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
• Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

• Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
• Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

• £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
• Tech of your choice
• 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
• Pension Scheme
• Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
• Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process 

Who is Upp?

The world of retail changed forever when the world went online. Now competition is fiercer than ever, and businesses are struggling to survive. Why?

Firstly, companies struggle to drive revenue across multiple channels. Amazon, eBay, and Google all categorise, list and sell products differently so it’s hard to effectively sell on more than one channel. Secondly, companies still focus too heavily on revenue generation. On average, across an entire product range the company profit will be driven by only 30% of their products, the remaining 70% is sold at cost or loss.

Upp wants to help both local retailers and global multinationals to not only survive in this market but thrive, by enabling them to not only drive revenue more effectively across multiple channels but also to allow businesses to understand their profitability at an individual product level.

 The Upp journey so far:

Upp focused on building their first module, their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. This addressed the challenge with selling products across multiple channels. Retailers can plug into the Upp platform, the platform ingests all of their data effortlessly, it figures out what data is missing using machine learning, it uses image processing to enrich the product data, and it then lists the products on multiple channels intelligently adjusting the listing depending on how that channel works. This allowed products to be listed 40x fast than traditional methods whilst, improving product visibility and increasing sales margins.

As Upp started plugging customers in to their platform, they discovered a more deep-rooted challenge for these businesses. Companies focused on revenue generation as a key business metric and their teams’ performance was measured in this way. Businesses with high revenue figures struggled because they didn’t have visibility of which of their products were selling at a cost or a profit. This is why local independents to global multinational retailers struggle alike to survive, they don’t have visibility of profit margins at a macro level.

Upp are now building a second module, their “Intelligent Margin Hub” to allow retailers to have macro visibility of their data and provide actionable insights.

The Upp mission:

To save retailers, small and large, by giving them access to data and insights that allows them to improve profitability and win more customers.

Company Overview:

Current Snapshot:

Upp is a mission led startup looking to address a core challenge within one of the largest business sectors in the world, online retail. They are focused on developing and constantly improving the two core components of their product.  

Upp has 25 employees based in their London office in Fitzrovia; with large open plan spaces great for collaboration, meetups and product demos, and obviously the obligatory beer fridge. Although the office space is great, it is the culture and sense of purpose that shines through.

For now, Upp is focused on increasing the number of paying customers using their “Intelligent Listing Engine”. Whilst the “Intelligent Margin Hub” is at Beta stage with a small number of businesses.

The company is well funded, in late 2021 Upp will either look to raise their Series B or be profitable. At this point the company will be heavily scaling, both in terms of customers acquisition and hiring within the product engineering function.

 The Product:

Overview:

The Upp platform enables retailers to drive macro business outcomes by combining marketing, ecommerce and business data to win more customers and improve profitability.

 Upp uses machine learning to enrich product titles, attributes and descriptions so they’re found by more consumers. Upp intelligently lists your products on Google Shopping and Amazon 40x faster than traditional methods while improving your product visibility and effectively increasing your sales and margin.

Beyond product listing capabilities, Upp empowers ecommerce and digital marketing teams to make smart online retail decisions, by giving them SKU level margin visibility and providing insights and actions to drive the best results. Upp aligns your teams around the bigger picture by simply connecting silos of data from across the business and helping the team stay focused on profitability.

 Upp currently has two modules:

1. Intelligent Listing Engine:

• Taking product information and intelligently optimizing it for Google Shopping to drive revenue and profitability
• Improving your product visibility by enriching product titles and attributes to ensure your product is seen more and the customer experience improves

1. Intelligent Margin Hub:

• Providing SKU level margin visibility, insights and actions to optimize digital marketing spend and increase profitability
• Simply connects business and marketing data from the across the business to provide insights and focus on the right metrics

 Product Roadmap for 2020

In 2019 the focus was getting the Listing Engine production ready whilst building starting to build the Margin Hub module. There was also a focus on consolidating and simplifying the architecture and tech stack to allow for both rapid feature development and building reliable, secure code.

The product roadmap for 2020:

1. Intelligent Listing Engine:

• Improve/mature current features:
  • Improve the management of products across channels
  • Add in social channels
  • Improving the data enrichment process
  • Introducing more self-service features
• Continuing to take customer feedback to drive new feature development
• Focusing on performance and scalability as the customer base grows

1. Intelligent Margin Hub:

• Taking Margin Hub from MVP to Production, whilst onboarding live customers.
• Integrate into retailers back office platforms
• Report SKU level margin performance
• Integrate with external data sources to identify trends
• Use machine learning to generate “recommend” actions to improve profit margins

Product Engineering:

Team Structure

The Product Engineering function is 20 strong. Drew heads up Product, with a team of Product Owners and Designers. Ben heads up Engineering, leading 3 lean cross-functional teams.

The engineering squads are aligned to the product modules:

• Intelligent Listing Engine
• Intelligent Margin Hub
• Product data – metadata and modelling

Upp has 2 core squads, each squad is a cross functional team that consists of Front and Backend Developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and Data Scientists. Each squad is headed up by a Product Owner and Lead Developer that guide and inspire the squad, Upp describe the PO and Lead Dev, as the CPO and CTO of the squad.

Each squad has their own focused backlog and they work to fortnightly sprints. The features worked on cut across the entire stack. Each squad has their own designer and frontend engineer, but developers will still be able to work full stack and have input into product design. DevOps responsibilities are shared across the squads as well.

The focus for the first half of 2020 is on the product and customer acquisition, the second half of the year will be focused on scaling the product engineering function.

Stack:

• Backend: Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin, Microservices Architecture, GraphQL, Kafka.
• Frontend: React, JavaScript, HTML, CSS
• Database: MongoDB, Neo4j.
• Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Ansible

Lead Developer

Your Role:

You will be taking over as Lead Developer of the Margin Hub team. Margin Hub is in MVP state and the focus is now getting this production ready. Margin Hub will be the largest revenue generator for Upp, so you’ll be taking over a critical part of the platform with a strategic focus from the exec team.

Your role will split between hands on and leadership.

• 80% hands on – leading on architectural decisions, overseeing execution and being an individual contributor. You will be the technical SME for the team.
• 20% leadership – line management of the team (monthly meetings, OKR’s) and mentoring the team on technical decision making. This will be closely supported by the Director of Engineering.

You will work closely with the Product Owner to ensure product and engineering are aligned, agree priorities and ensure delivery is on track.

You will also be tasked with owning the architecture and ensuring that Margin Hub is designed and built in a robust and scalable way.

The team are all London based and form a close knit unit.  

What you will be tasked with:

• You will lead the squad and have overall accountability for the product delivery.
• You will form a close partnership with the Product Owner to ensure consistency from Product Research/Design to Delivery.
• Your will inspire the team to challenge what is technically possible and enable those around you.
• You will educate and mentor the squad on technical decision making, maturing their understanding of trade-offs.
• You will review the current state of the product and drive technical innovation.
• You will be able to architect the product with resilience, performance and scalability in mind.
• You will own the architecture, tech and tooling.

What Upp are looking for in you:

Non-negotiables – soft skills:

• An interest in product and startups. Working with a small team to take a new offering to market excites you. You understand user needs, market positioning and how that flows into product build.
• Mission led. Someone who buys into the mission of a company and the problem they are solving. Upp are growing fast and have a tonne of things they need to achieve, they want people that are bought in for the long term and believe in what they’re doing.
• Pragmatic thinker. You have a structured approach to situations, if you don’t know the answer, you’ll know how to find it out.
• Open to change. You are able to work in a fast paced environments where priorities can change instantly, and you are able to adjust.
• Technologist. Someone that understands technology on a deeper level, you will have worked with different architectural patterns and programming languages and understand why different tools work better for different situations.

Non-negotiables – tech skills:

• Strong experience in Java, Spring and Microservices development.
• Strong experience on platform integration. Margin Hub needs to integrate with multiple customer platforms. Upp have just invested in Cloud Elements as the key integration tool.  
• Solid on code quality and testing, and DevOps.
• Strong on architectural principles, ideally Event Sourcing and CQRS.
• Ability to mentor others on technical decision making on the Upp tech stack.

 Nice to haves:

• Experience with Kotlin.
• Hands on DevOps/infrastructure experience.

What you will achieve in your first six months:

• Built strong relationships with the team and be the go-to person for help and support.
• Have led the Margin Hub product to be production ready and have multiple customers on the platform.
• Have led the architecture and design of the platform, as well as contributed to the codebase.
• Reviewed and improved aspects of the architecture, stack and tooling.
• Matured the decision making of the team  and helped make them better engineers.
• Have recruited strong engineers to join the team.

How your role will evolve:

Upp expect to grow significantly in Q4 2020/Q1 2021, which will means more product teams. The two opportunities this will likely present to you is:

• Principal Engineer; an overarching role to own the tech stack for Upp.
• Engineering Manager/Head of; if you would be interested in the people management route.

The Package and Benefits:

• £90-110,000 basic salary + 10% bonus (paid quarterly)
• Tech of your choice
• 25 days annual leave plus your birthday off
• Pension Scheme
• Free breakfasts, strong coffee, fully stacked fridge with drinks and snacks.
• Other perks: free mobile phone insurance, cinema discounts, eyecare voucher scheme, employee assistance programme.

Interview process:

1 stage, 1.5 hour interview process 

Join us as a Senior React Web Developer

• If you have an eye for UX and want to hone your skills in a creative environment, you could be the person we're looking for
• You’ll become part of a fun, friendly and high performing team who take inspiration from leaders in the technology sector to drive innovation in banking and finance
• We'll challenge you to approach problems in novel and innovative ways, and to think laterally and act with autonomy
• With the opportunity to influence and direct the performance of thousands of colleagues across the bank, you can really make your mark in this role

What you'll do

You'll hone your skills to create beautiful web applications in React+Redux+GraphQL and leverage tools like D3.js, working closely with experts across the business to make sure they’re relevant, purposeful and on-brand.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Creating bespoke web-based interactive front ends and data visualisations
• Working alongside designers and database engineers to implement features
• Designing and developing our portfolio of web-portal frontends and data dashboards
• Evaluating existing frameworks and proposing their usage
• Helping the Product Owner with planning activities by identifying technical risks and issues
• Implementing flexible front ends that allow easy UI customisation

The skills you'll need

As an experienced web developer, you'll be familiar working with responsive designs and proficient in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and LESS/SASS.

You'll also bring:

• Demonstrable examples of complex frontends that you've either created, or made a significant contribution to its features
• Experience working in an Agile environment, such as Scrum or Kanban, or the ability to work with rapid, iterative processes

And while it's not essential, it would be great if you can bring:

• Experience with D3.js, PixiJS or other visualisation libraries
• Some experience using build tools such as Grunt, Gulp or Webpack
• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Jasmine or Selenium
• Previous experience using Sass, Git, Chef, Docker and Jenkins

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.

Join us as a Senior React Web Developer

• If you have an eye for UX and want to hone your skills in a creative environment, you could be the person we're looking for
• You’ll become part of a fun, friendly and high performing team who take inspiration from leaders in the technology sector to drive innovation in banking and finance
• We'll challenge you to approach problems in novel and innovative ways, and to think laterally and act with autonomy
• With the opportunity to influence and direct the performance of thousands of colleagues across the bank, you can really make your mark in this role

What you'll do

You'll hone your skills to create beautiful web applications in React+Redux+GraphQL and leverage tools like D3.js, working closely with experts across the business to make sure they’re relevant, purposeful and on-brand.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Creating bespoke web-based interactive front ends and data visualisations
• Working alongside designers and database engineers to implement features
• Designing and developing our portfolio of web-portal frontends and data dashboards
• Evaluating existing frameworks and proposing their usage
• Helping the Product Owner with planning activities by identifying technical risks and issues
• Implementing flexible front ends that allow easy UI customisation

The skills you'll need

As an experienced web developer, you'll be familiar working with responsive designs and proficient in JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3 and LESS/SASS.

You'll also bring:

• Demonstrable examples of complex frontends that you've either created, or made a significant contribution to its features
• Experience working in an Agile environment, such as Scrum or Kanban, or the ability to work with rapid, iterative processes

And while it's not essential, it would be great if you can bring:

• Experience with D3.js, PixiJS or other visualisation libraries
• Some experience using build tools such as Grunt, Gulp or Webpack
• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Jasmine or Selenium
• Previous experience using Sass, Git, Chef, Docker and Jenkins

If you need any adjustments to support your application, such as information in alternative formats or special requirements to access our buildings, or if you’re eligible under the Disability Confident Scheme please contact us and we’ll do everything we can to help.

Oscatel is hiring a Software Engineer to design and implement web back end solutions - using Python, Node.js, Go, or similar - for a range of projects that underpin operational services for mobile carriers.

We're an established software provider that's bringing development back in house. We're building modular, scalable, solutions - many of which will become long-term products - mainly around operational support services for mobile carriers, and all of which we will help you get to grips with.

The domain entails data-intensive services where security, data integrity and uptime are key. This presents lots of interesting design and coding challenges as we build and integrate our technology.

You can anticipate a mix of well-defined greenfield projects, initially focused on implementing the back end and data solution for a large customer deliverable, along with substantial exploratory work as we validate concepts and build new solutions, maturing these into products. You can choose the best fit language and ecosystem per project - e.g. Python, Node.js or Go - enjoying ownership as we build our core back end technology.

We offer a culture where you may work under your own initiative as part of a collaborative effort towards common goals. It's an opportunity to be a formative team member, and to grow and improve together.

Early projects within the team

• Building out SMS messaging modules; 2FA analytics, billing, routing, dashboard
• Data management methods to produce analytics and alerting tools
• Working towards adoption of containers and Kubernetes
• Adopting GraphQL
• Helping establish our development culture, methods and automation

We're looking for

• Someone able to write code that's efficient, robust, documented and well tested
• Transferrable design and coding skills, accrued in a modern web back end context
• Technology agnostic and happy using languages such as Python, Node.js and/or Go - or similar - transferring from any Linux-based ecosystem
• A microservice-based approach, with API design abilities and strong SQL/MySQL
• Ability to master complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices
• Someone considering mid level back end jobs in Bristol such as: Microservices Engineer | Python Developer | Python Software Engineer | Node.js Developer | Go Developer | Golang Engineer | Back End Developer etc.

Current ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence

Python, Flask, Pandas, SQLAlchemy | Node.js, TypeScript | Elasticsearch | RabbitMQ | MySQL | Docker | AWS | Linux | Atlassian stack

Salary and benefits

• £45,000 - £60,000+ we're keeping an open mind
• 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday
• Flexible working - tell us what you need
• One/two days' remote working each week, once up to speed
• Modern serviced office with a canteen, showers, bike parking
• Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications

Oscatel is hiring a Software Engineer to design and implement web back end solutions - using Python, Node.js, Go, or similar - for a range of projects that underpin operational services for mobile carriers.

We're an established software provider that's bringing development back in house. We're building modular, scalable, solutions - many of which will become long-term products - mainly around operational support services for mobile carriers, and all of which we will help you get to grips with.

The domain entails data-intensive services where security, data integrity and uptime are key. This presents lots of interesting design and coding challenges as we build and integrate our technology.

You can anticipate a mix of well-defined greenfield projects, initially focused on implementing the back end and data solution for a large customer deliverable, along with substantial exploratory work as we validate concepts and build new solutions, maturing these into products. You can choose the best fit language and ecosystem per project - e.g. Python, Node.js or Go - enjoying ownership as we build our core back end technology.

We offer a culture where you may work under your own initiative as part of a collaborative effort towards common goals. It's an opportunity to be a formative team member, and to grow and improve together.

Early projects within the team

• Building out SMS messaging modules; 2FA analytics, billing, routing, dashboard
• Data management methods to produce analytics and alerting tools
• Working towards adoption of containers and Kubernetes
• Adopting GraphQL
• Helping establish our development culture, methods and automation

We're looking for

• Someone able to write code that's efficient, robust, documented and well tested
• Transferrable design and coding skills, accrued in a modern web back end context
• Technology agnostic and happy using languages such as Python, Node.js and/or Go - or similar - transferring from any Linux-based ecosystem
• A microservice-based approach, with API design abilities and strong SQL/MySQL
• Ability to master complex requirements, to uphold security of sensitive data and to conform to best practices
• Someone considering mid level back end jobs in Bristol such as: Microservices Engineer | Python Developer | Python Software Engineer | Node.js Developer | Go Developer | Golang Engineer | Back End Developer etc.

Current ecosystem - we'll welcome your influence

Python, Flask, Pandas, SQLAlchemy | Node.js, TypeScript | Elasticsearch | RabbitMQ | MySQL | Docker | AWS | Linux | Atlassian stack

Salary and benefits

• £45,000 - £60,000+ we're keeping an open mind
• 25 days holiday, plus public holidays and a day for your birthday
• Flexible working - tell us what you need
• One/two days' remote working each week, once up to speed
• Modern serviced office with a canteen, showers, bike parking
• Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications

React Native Developer – Notting Hill – Renewable Energy – £650 per day

Do you want to work for a market leading, forward thinking and technically versatile company in a central London location?

OVO Energy is the leading independent energy retail company in the UK offering an unparalleled scope of digital energy services, solutions and technologies to its pay-monthly customers.

You will be joining a unique team whose mission is to ensure business software engineering teams have optimal conditions to build and operate high-performance, reliable, secure & scalable services.

Requirements:

• A thorough understanding of React Native mobile app development
• To understand JavaScript web development
• A background in either React development or iOS/Android mobile development
• Solid knowledge of Agile, TDD, and BDD

Tech stack companywide:

You will commonly encounter Scala, TypeScript, Clojure, Node, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Cypress, Swift and React Native. With services run in GCP, AWS and Azure.

React Native Developer – Notting Hill – Renewable Energy – £650 per day

React Native Developer – Notting Hill – Renewable Energy – £650 per day

Do you want to work for a market leading, forward thinking and technically versatile company in a central London location?

OVO Energy is the leading independent energy retail company in the UK offering an unparalleled scope of digital energy services, solutions and technologies to its pay-monthly customers.

You will be joining a unique team whose mission is to ensure business software engineering teams have optimal conditions to build and operate high-performance, reliable, secure & scalable services.

Requirements:

• A thorough understanding of React Native mobile app development
• To understand JavaScript web development
• A background in either React development or iOS/Android mobile development
• Solid knowledge of Agile, TDD, and BDD

Tech stack companywide:

You will commonly encounter Scala, TypeScript, Clojure, Node, Java, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, React, Cypress, Swift and React Native. With services run in GCP, AWS and Azure.

React Native Developer – Notting Hill – Renewable Energy – £650 per day