Senior Software Engineer (UK/Europe based - Fully remote)
This is an exciting opportunity to work on a project for our client, a well known global company in the music industry.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer based in the UK/Europe. At Overloop, we are a close-knit small team, committed to quality code, processes that work, honesty, and seeing things through to completion. A typical working day will involve a 20 minute catch up call to kick off the day, reviewing requirements and/or bug reports, coding, discussing over Slack and Google Hangouts, creating a Github PR, getting the PR reviewed and seeing your code get to production to make a difference for our clients.
Overloop is a UK based company, and our team currently works remotely from around Europe, Africa and and South America
Are you the right candidate?
We are looking for a Senior Python Engineer, based in the UK or Europe, and able to work UK hours.
What you will do:
* Build products that empower artists and record labels across the globe
* Contribute to all tiers of our clients’ architecture to produce high quality, robust user experiences
* Write clean, tested and maintainable code
* Work closely with product management to understand and implement client requirements
* Design, communicate and execute a vision in collaboration with your team and other teams across the technology organization
* Participate in re-architecture, refinement and technical design of various systems
* Mentor more junior engineers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning
Who you are:
Seeking 8+ years of software engineering experience in the following areas:
* Implementing distributed systems
* Microservice and asynchronous architecture
* Python and Javascript
* Building responsive frontend applications (our client uses TypeScript, React, and GraphQL)
* Database technologies and query languages (our client uses Neo4j, Kafka, MySQL, Snowflake, Elasticsearch, and more)
* RESTful architecture
* AWS Cloud technologies
* Log analysis to investigate bugs and performance issues
* Unit and integration tests
* Agile development practices
Nice to have:
* Typescript
Other requirements and soft skills:
* Needs to be able to work to UK working hours
* Fluent English speaker (our client is an English speaking company)
* Great communication skills
* Proactive mindset
* Problem solving
* Curiosity
* Ability to learn quickly
* Eagerness
This is a full time role / 40 working hours per week.
On-call availability may be required for unexpected, infrequent outages.
Approximate salary range - £70,000 - depending on experience.
Please note that we cannot sponsor visas at this time.
The interview process will look like:
* You will have a 30 min - 1hour interview with the team at Overloop to talk through your skills and experience and take part in a coding exercise that you will have prepared in advance.
* We will then put you forward to our client who will have some additional interview rounds of their own.
Please be aware that Overloop does not request an AI-led interview. All conversations throughout, and the interview itself will be with a team member from Overloop. We wont ask for your personal identification documents during your interview process with us. If you receive an email - claiming to be from Overloop - but from an email address ending in anything other than @overloop.io, please be aware that this is not us.