Tech Lead

Masonworth serves more than 10 million learners across schools, universities and businesses. Production studios in London and abroad record and edit thousands of hours of video a year. We started in 1989 and have grown to about 4,900 people.

About the role

Masonworth is hiring for the Tech Lead role on our operations team. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in the UK. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

Main duties

• Write unit and integration tests and keep the CI pipeline green.
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates.
• Migrate older modules out of the monolith where it makes sense.
• Design, build and maintain services in Python, Go or Java that handle real customer traffic.
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong skills in at least one of Python, Java, Go, C# or TypeScript.
• Comfortable working in Linux and on the command line.
• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or MySQL, including writing efficient SQL.

Preferred

• Prior work at an early-stage startup.
• Contributions to open source projects.
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
• Event-driven systems using Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Perks and benefits

• Healthcare cash plan.
• Workplace pension.
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays.
• Death in service benefit.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Annual bonus.

You must have the right to work in the UK.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Masonworth Ltd.