Remote Design + Developer + Engineer + Junior Jobs

Overview

We are Basket (www.trybasket.com) – a fresh and exciting new approach to save, share and follow the things you love, and the people who love them too. Basket keeps you organised, up to date, and helps you buy better across all shopping categories.

To continue our growth we’re seeking a Senior Backend Engineer located in London or Auckland. With your strong production experience of Python and ETL processes, you’ll play a key role in our data extraction, transformation pipelines, data storage (MongoDB), and data delivery via AWS API Gateway (Rest APIs) and AWS AppSync (GraphQL). You’ll need a deep understanding and experience with serverless AWS (Lamba with EventBridge), and knowledge of the serverless framework (https://www.serverless.com/) would be a significant benefit.

To excel in this role, you’ll learn quickly, think big, and deliver rock-solid results in a fast-paced startup environment. You implicitly know how to balance safe decisions while proactively researching and running code experiments. You’re someone who embraces collaboration and feedback with open arms. You continuously look for ways to grow yourself, help teammates, and opportunities to make the products you work on stronger. This is a chance to join an innovative team where you will be challenged, and have significant input to shape a product we believe will become a global household name. This is an exciting opportunity to join our backend team at a pivotal time in our journey.

This role is development focused, with a small amount of coaching required for junior team members.

How We Work at Basket

At Basket, we work in 2 week development cycles with a clearly defined goal. We’re inspired by companies like Linear where quality work is more important than quantity of features released. We plan each cycle well ahead of time with team discussions, research and workshops to make sure we’re making informed decisions.

Here’s how our typical cycle looks;

• 2 weeks before a cycle we plan and define requirements for features

• 1 week before a cycle we do technical due diligence and write acceptance criteria

• During a cycle we write code using test-driven development, test code to development and staging environments, collaborate with QA, Design and PM team members to ensure features are production ready.

What You'll Do

• Write, improve and maintain serverless functions to accurately transform and load data into efficient and organised MongoDB storage

• Develop and maintain 3rd party data clients to enrich stored data

• Create and update API endpoints for a frontend client using AWS API Gateway (Rest APIs) and AWS AppSync (GraphQL)

• Analyse and tune application performance with a focus on efficiency using analytics tools such as Lumigo, Sentry, Segment and DataDog

• Research and architect solutions using serverless architecture patterns

• Implement and improve analytics and application monitoring performance

• Approach your work using test driven development (TDD) to ensure the integrity of your code and our services

About You

• Native English (this is essential)

• Located in London, UK or Auckland, NZ

• 5+ years full-time work experience as a backend engineer on production services

• Advanced knowledge of Python ^3.10 and/or NodeJS ^15.0.0

• Deep knowledge of webpage parsing, including XPath and Regex

• Excellent experience with MongoDB and DynamoDB

• Production experience with AWS services in a serverless microservices context, such as Lambda, AppSync, API Gateway, S3, SNS, SQS, Cognito, EventBridge

• Lots of energy and enthusiasm about being part of a small, progressive team

Good To Have

• University degree in computer science, or equivalent experience

• Experience working in a VC-backed startup environment

Our Culture

Our culture is built on respect, collaboration and a drive to shake up the world of shopping. We’re at the beginning of our journey with the opportunity for new team members to lead projects, and shape services that customers interact with daily. Our team members are conscientious, deep thinkers, always striving to be awesome human beings.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value a diversity of perspectives and backgrounds at our company. We are dedicated to a policy of nondiscrimination in employment on any basis including race, colour, age, sex, religion, disability, or national origin.

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

⏰ Async

🏖 Paid time off

👀 No monitoring system

🚫 No politics at work

🎅 We hire old (and young)

Onko Health is hiring a remote full-stack engineer for our cancer support platform, becoming technical lead for our all-new team.

We’re a healthtech scaleup company. Our app blends remote support and coaching from expert oncology practitioners with self-help approaches, backed by a data handling platform. We serve a number of UK healthcare providers and NHS trusts, delivering improved outcomes for patient health and care giving. We're preparing to bring development in-house, with a new engineering team to deliver upon our ambitious growth plans. 

With guidance from our Head of Engineering you'll help define, design and build the evolution of our clinician-facing web application, the platform, and integration with our patient-facing mobile app, as well as influencing our culture and methods.

Because of the need to deliver scheduled features, fix bugs, and respond to the needs of newly onboarded customers, we’re looking for someone who is comfortable working with users, and offshore colleagues while we form a new team, and who still relishes lots of hands-on work.

We place equal emphasis on front and back-end, being particularly mindful of quality, resilience, and data security. Your personal coding focus may be oriented towards the back-end, or across whole stack, we can be flexible.

Once up to speed, your remit may include aspects such as

• With HoE, co-owning the architecture and code base of our web application and back-end

• Helping set the technical direction and writing clean, robust code to provide a secure, scalable and reliable platform

• Exploring algorithmic methods in data science, for improved health and care outcomes

• Working with our VHoE on roadmap, deliverables and hiring aims

• Collaborating with our with our multidisciplinary team to take product features from concept to delivery, integrated with our mobile app

• Keeping up to date with trends in software development, technology and healthtech

• Upholding compliance, regulation, data and accessibility requirements

• Mentoring junior staff, imparting best practices

• Third line support, troubleshooting and root cause analysis

• Establishing CI/CD pipelines, and shaping a DevOps approach

• Evolving our development culture, methods and tooling

• Automating tests and upholding quality

We're looking for

• Someone with broad full-stack engineering abilities

• Excellent technical understanding of software engineering and data security principles

• Comfortable with architecting web applications - or ready to grow into this 

• Technology agnostic and adept with Node.js, plus familiarity with a modern JS framework (we're currently using Angular) and/or TypeScript

• Optionally, a good understanding of front-end technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3

• Skilled in API development 

• Appreciation for documentation, quality and best practice

• Experience with Git/GitHub, and running CI/CD pipelines

• Good technical familiarity with AWS Cloud services

• Competent with SQL and MySQL/similar admin

• A pragmatic application of Agile (both Scrum & Kanban) methodologies

You may also bring - or like to gain - skills or knowledge around any of

Influencing architecture, technology choice | mobile app development - e.g. Swift/Java/Kotlin, Firebase | secure coding practises, OWASP Top 10 | DevOps culture, pipeline automation | offshore collaboration, onshoring | mentoring engineers | Lean | algorithms and data science | establishing ETL pipelines and querying data warehouses

Salary and benefits

• £70,000 - £90,000 - reviewed at six months - we're keeping an open mind

• Share scheme for formative team members (once proven value to the business)

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and 5 days unpaid leave

• Flexible working practices - tell us what you need - e.g. optional four day week

• Personal development plan that you can shape, with budget for related training/certifications

About us

Founded in 2017 by a cancer care nurse and a cancer care surgeon, we're a team of engineers, designers, health coaches, and medical professionals, building the first digital health coaching service for people affected by cancer. It is clinically proven to lead to faster recovery, better quality of life and sustained health benefits. The work we do has a real impact on people’s lives, and we are on a journey to transform the lives of people affected by cancer. https://onkohealth.co.uk/

Location: fully remote, within the UK only. We'll get-together in person in London (Paddington), from time-to-time, monthly at most, and with good notice.

Please note, we can only consider candidates that hold an established right to work in the UK.

RECRUITERS: Onko Health has selected techfolk as its exclusive recruitment partner for this position and cold calling or speculative applications are not welcomed.

Salary and compensation

Benefits

🌎 Distributed team

🏖 Paid time off

📆 4 day workweek