Overview
City of London
Permanent, Full-time - Onsite
Job Description for a Staff Engineer role within our Software Development team. We are an energy trading company generating liquidity across global commodities markets. Our edge comes from deep trading expertise, proprietary technology and data science, enabling us to operate in volatile, data-intensive markets.
At Dare, you will join a team of ambitious individuals who challenge themselves and each other. We have a culture of empowering exceptional people to become the best version of themselves.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
Working within the Software Development team at Dare, a Staff Engineer will work on scaling and enhancing our proprietary trading platform, which uses cutting-edge trading models for optimal efficiency. You will help transform our technical deliverables that support our activity on the trading floor, involving designing, implementing, and maintaining complex applications, and delivering high-quality, real-time actionable insights to our internal trading teams.
As part of your role, you will:
* Have a strong engineering background with strong opinions (loosely held) on technologies, platforms, and approaches to delivery.
* Articulate ideas effectively, ensuring shared understanding across the technology team.
* Lead the design and development of scalable and maintainable solutions. We primarily build in Python and Go, with some C# systems. A strong Staff Engineer will have no problems picking up new technologies.
* Collaborate with stakeholders, designers, and frontend engineers to translate business requirements into technical specifications and deliver high-quality software solutions.
* Bring strong leadership skills that will inspire those around you. This role is primarily individual contributor, with potential line management for the right candidates.
* Mentor more junior engineers to support growth, including senior engineers and peers, fostering a growth mindset.
* Conduct code reviews, provide technical guidance and best practices to ensure code quality and team collaboration.
* Drive technical decisions, evaluate new technologies and tools, and contribute to continuous improvement of backend development processes.
* Stay up to date with emerging technologies, trends, and best practices, pragmatically combining new and proven technologies to drive innovation.
* Contribute to the overall architecture, design patterns, and technical roadmap of our backend systems.
* Be comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities, creating order from chaos.
What you’ll bring
Qualifications
* Extensive experience with one or both of Python and Go is advantageous.
* Strong knowledge of technologies that support the delivery of data via RESTful APIs (e.g., HTTP, TLS).
* Strong understanding of Relational Database Management System software – Postgres used.
* Understanding of common distributed system problems and ability to guide others on tackling them.
* Excellent collaboration skills, working in an agile environment; advocate of Scrum.
* Experience leading a team or large projects.
Desirable
* Experience with Kubernetes and microservices architecture.
Benefits & perks
* Competitive salary
* Vitality health insurance and dental cover
* 38 days of holiday (including bank holidays)
* Pension scheme
* Annual Bluecrest health checks
* A personal learning & development budget of £5000
* Free gym membership
* Specsavers vouchers
* Enhanced family leave
* Cycle to Work scheme
* Credited Deliveroo dinner account
* Office massage therapy
* Freshly served office breakfast twice a week
* Fully stocked fridge and pantry
* Social events and a games room
Matters
We believe in a workplace where our people can fulfil their potential, whatever their background or whomever they are. We celebrate the breadth of experience and see this as critical to problem-solving and to Dare thriving as a business. Our culture rewards curiosity and drive, so the best ideas triumph and everyone here can make an impact.
Please let us know ahead of the interview and testing processes if you require any reasonable adjustments or assistance during the application process.
We’re also proud to be certified a ‘Great Place to Work’.
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