Senior Backend Engineer
We are a digitally transformed, tech-enabled security services company with an innovative digital product.
We are deeply rooted in hiring the best talent and setting the highest industry standards. With a commitment to rewarding hard work, the team culture is supportive, collaborative, innovative, ambitious, and entrepreneurial. We are seeking to appoint an experienced Software Engineer to be part of a small yet ambitious Technology team, who is able to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
And that’s where you come in
We’re proud of what we’ve achieved so far but know we need to change our approach to allow us to grow smoothly. This is a unique opportunity for an experienced Engineer – with a thirst for innovation – to support our innovative products.
You will be joining an exciting and established team who are always looking to improve our technologies, processes, and products. You’ll have the ability to leverage cutting edge tools to continuously improve our development process. You’ll mentor other members of the team and interact with technical stakeholders within TKC and its suppliers.
Your mission
We’re looking for a passionate and outcome-focused individual to support our ambitious growth target, by ensuring the company is leveraging its infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage in a sector ripe for disruption.
Our existing platform – Chase – has been a transformative solution in our current market, and we want to sustain our success by breaking it down into smaller flexible services as we look to grow significantly in existing and new markets.
Our approach to technology guarantees the opportunity to use the most up-to-date techniques, tools, and practices. DevOps, QA, and Front-End Development teams will support you, plus you will work closely with senior leadership and product managers to create the best possible product.
Applications to be sent to hr@keyholding.com or apply here.
- Excellent salary of up to £70,000 per annum.
- Full-time, permanent, and flexible working basis (ability to work from home but must have the flexibility to travel into our London Farringdon HQ when/if required).
- We offer internal training and development opportunities in a fantastic working environment.
- Opportunity to make a difference in a position of real responsibility!
- Transforming our existing platform into a new event-driven microservices architecture
- Developing our existing platform
- Developing our new micro and serverless-based services
- Contributing to design discussions
- Writing well-designed, testable, metrics-driven code
- Writing automated tests to ensure the product quality
- Coaching the team in best development practices
- Discovering and trialling new tools to introduce to the company to grow the Agile development environment
- Utilising Cloud technologies to improve our system’s maintainability, availability, and resilience
- Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript (Node), Python, Ansible, Terraform
- Frameworks: Cuba, Vaadin, Spring
- Database: Postgres
- Infrastructure: AWS – EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, Docker, Kubernetes
- Other technologies: Kafka, Github Actions, Jenkins
We will help you grow the skills you need for this role, but we expect candidates to apply who have:
- Proficiency at leveraging modern development techniques to create back-end solutions
- Experience working in an agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment
- Some experience working with cloud technologies
- Experience developing small/micro services and/or serverless applications
- 3 years proven commercial experience as a software developer or a similar software engineering role
- Experience using Java – Python, Javascript or another modern language is a bonus
We are keen to hear from candidates from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and are excited about learning from you, as much as you can learn from us.