Staff Backend Engineer London, England
Job description
We're a well-funded Tech scaleup in Europe and Asia with a mission to make the world fairer and more productive. We are doing this by making assets more transparent, trustworthy and accessible - starting with real estate. Incomes have stagnated, so more access to high value assets like real estate = less wealth inequality. We have first mover advantage!
Our CEO and co-founder Moubin had a successful career at McKinsey and private equity firm, APAX. Our CTO and co-founder Misrab is a Stanford Computer Scientist and scaled the data team at Gojek, a Tech unicorn in Asia.
Our values sit at the core of GetGround - no BS, pursuit of excellence, feedback obsession and healthy egos.
GetGround in numbers:
- 85 colleagues (ex Google, Meta, Deliveroo, Feedzai etc)
- £1Bn+ of assets on our platform
- 15,000+ users across 70 countries, with a 10% market share already
- Global hubs (UK, Portugal, Hong Kong, Singapore)
Staff Backend Engineer | London
(hybrid working with 3 functional days a week in our new office in Hammersmith - free daily breakfast and gym membership provided)
You will be part of the Engineering leadership team headed up by CTO and co-founder Misrab, a Stanford Computer Scientist and former VP Data at the Asian tech unicorn Gojek. The GetGround engineering team is split across 3 cross-functional Tech squads in London and Portugal.
Our tech stack includes a handful of Golang microservices on the backend and React.js on the frontend, all deployed over GCP. You will help define our technical product roadmap encompassing long term architecture for robustness, extensibility & agility whilst simultaneously building a values-driven engineering culture.
Your impact is based on implementing your advanced technical expertise as well as your ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive positive outcomes outside purely the Engineering function.
What you can expect in this role:
Technical leadership
- Define the technical product roadmap for Backend engineering, including long-term architecture for robustness, extensibility, and agility. Drive the development of software systems and solutions.
- You will deep-dive technically when needed, asking great questions, challenging assumptions and ensuring the right choices are made
- Proactively lead technical problem identification, assessing tradeoffs
- Identify and address technical debt and design issues to ensure scalability, reliability, and security
- Ensure code quality and maintainability by reviewing code, testing, and debugging
- You are open to trying new technologies and stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for improvement. You have an experimentation mindset, and use this approach to deeply understand what is optimal, embracing new ideas and validating the right approach
- You are respected as a values champion, a coach and mentor and as a servant leader
- Participate in architecture and design discussions to ensure alignment with business needs and technical vision
Cross-functional leadership
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement features
- Identify system-level improvements and deficiencies, and bring them to light
- Identify and develop a technical vision complementing the Product vision
- You work with the Talent team to assess and hire top talent
Our hiring process - should take only 10-15 days. You can expect to meet with our CTO, members of the engineering team and our Senior Leadership Team.
Our benefits
- Competitive salary + stock options
- Private health + dental benefits
- Flexible/hybrid working (check details with your recruiter)
- 12 mental health days off annually (1 per month) PLUS holidays and public days off
- Mental health support - 24/7 access to mental health support, counselling, therapy & coaching through Spectrum.Life for all employees and their immediate family
- Team and company-wide events
- 360° performance reviews to promote a culture of growth and development
- Support for conferences and professional learning & development
[+ other localised benefits depending on your office location e.g. free breakfast daily and free gym ️ membership in London)
What we are building
The first end-to-end real estate investment offering - making the dream of owning real estate more accessible to everyone globally.
Diversity & inclusion at GetGround
We encourage applications from all sections of society and we believe in the criticality of an inclusive culture. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by law.
- 42% of our employees identify as female or non-specified, 58% as male
- 19 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries
- Our work on Design Accessibility
- Inclusion is at the heart of our culture - we celebrate and reflect on key D&I and cultural events such as: Black History Month, International Women's Day and Pride
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