Backend Engineer

August 29

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Linnworks

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Multi-Channel Software • Stock Control Software • Order Management Software • Shipping Management Software • Bulk Listing Software

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💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-09

Description

• About Linnworks: a leading technology company that specializes in eCommerce inventory and order management • As a Backend Engineer, you will be operating in a full-stack team within a fully agile environment with a focus on Backend • Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity in a secure, well-tested, and performant way • Help to define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment • Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review • Confidently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members • Collaborate with the team on larger projects • Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering stakeholders to maintain a high bar for quality in a fast-paced, iterative environment • Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team • Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers on your team to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers to their autonomy • Recognize impediments to our efficiency as a team ('technical debt'), propose and implement solutions • Represent Linnworks and its values in public communication around broader initiatives, specific projects, and community contributions

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Software Development • Strong understanding of AWS products and services (understanding of Azure counts too) • Strong knowledge and experience with C# (.NET Framework vs .NET Core) • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment • Strong analytical & critical thinking skills • Highly Desirable Experience: Experience with setting up and/or maintaining a distributed event-driven system based on a message broker (ideally Kafka or RabbitMQ + MassTransit) • a distributed tracing (or Telemetry in general) framework (OpenTelemetry, or commercial NewRelic, Sentry, etc) • Solid experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems (with knowledge on how to use DebugDiag, WinDbg, dotTrace, dotMemory or similar tools) • Beneficial Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is recommended • Knowledge and experience with MVC, Microservices, RESTful APIs, Webhooks, Agile, Javascript and SQL

Benefits

• Fantastic team culture based on trust and belonging • Competitive salary & an Equity Plan • 5 weeks of Vacation per year • A total of 38 annual days off after 3 years with Linnworks • Full Sick Leave compensation up until the 8th day • 2 Volunteer Days per year • Remote & Flexible Working • Laptop & a work-from-home budget – Get a personal budget of £500 to set up your home office • Mental Wellbeing support - Access therapy, mental health sessions, and yoga through a free premium subscription to Headspace 🧘🏻‍♀️ • Recreational Sports Compensation or supplementary Private Health Insurance • Confidential Employee Assistance Programme with access to 24/7 compassionate guidance & expert advice • Career Growth, Training & Personal Development via Linnworks Career Framework • Opportunity to be part of a rapidly scaling and market-leading tech company at the forefront of a growing e-commerce industry