Tech Lead

The Tech Lead will build and maintain services, APIs and internal tools, working closely with product and design. You'll write, test and ship code that runs in production every day. We hire in the UK through an employer of record, so this is a regular full-time job with local payroll and statutory benefits. Our standups are at 9:00 AM Pacific.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Improve the reliability of existing code instead of just adding features on top of it
• Ship small, frequent changes behind feature flags
• Debug performance problems using profilers, logs and tracing in Datadog or Grafana
• Maintain REST and gRPC APIs used by internal teams and outside partners
• Keep dependencies current and patch findings from Dependabot or Snyk
• Break down product requirements into technical tasks and rough estimates

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Working knowledge of testing practices: unit, integration and contract tests
• Some exposure to AWS, GCP or Azure

Bonus points:

• Prior work at an early-stage startup
• Kubernetes and Docker in production
• Background in payments, fintech or another regulated domain

What we offer:

Salary: £99,000-£123,000 per annum

• Home office setup budget
• 24 days paid time off
• Wellness allowance
• Annual team retreat
• Paid parental leave
• Co-working space stipend

About the company:

Advisors, operations, compliance and technology teams total roughly 7,000 people. Since 1955, the firm has grown through acquisitions of independent advisory practices.

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and we welcome applications from everyone.

This role is subject to a basic DBS check.

Start: Immediately.

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