Senior Software Engineer

Beamery
London
1 year ago
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ABOUT BEAMERY Beamery’s mission is to create equal access to work, skills and careers. We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry, enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions – by accelerating their recruiting processes, unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities, enabling smarter upskilling initiatives, and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire over a million people annually. Our product is used by Fortune 2000 organizations globally, leveraging cutting-edge AI technology that has earned us prestigious awards and financial backing from world renowned organizations such as Microsoft, Accenture & Workday. Some of the innovative things Beamery is working on this year include: ✨ Transforming experiences throughout the talent lifecycle with the power of AI and LLMs by using learning models and Beamery’s unique understanding of talent data. ✨ Focusing on ‘Beamery Talent Portals,’ our internal mobility tool which uses AI to help empower our customers to foster employee development, supports retention, encourages knowledge transfer, and reduces hiring costs. But it’s not all about creating high-quality products, we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust, empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work. ABOUT THE TEAM Team “PublicX” is a backend team, taking care of our public APIs and authentication/authorisation - enabling Beamery to connect with the rest of the talent ecosystem. Our current challenge is around refreshing the role permissions model to enhance customer experience and ensure scalability of the product in future. Our tech stack includes: TypeScript, Kubernetes, Istio, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, REDIS. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING AT BEAMERY We are looking for a Backend Engineer to help our core backend services and APIs evolve and scale to cope with new feature development, varied customer needs and increased user traffic. This person will: Play a critical role in designing, developing and operating the next generation of our core microservices, APIs and the data models backing them Work with teammates to continuously improve our authentication and authorisation services Execute on projects and follow through end to end starting with discovery and design through prototyping and implementation to gauging success and owning operations. Collaborate with product managers, designers and fellow team members to identify and implement optimal design approaches to deliver value to our customers Improve our internal processes, documentation and ways of working (agile methodologies, working in sprints, focusing on delivering value iteratively, close collaboration in the team and customer centric approach) Play a pivotal role in cultivating a vibrant company culture that champions creativity by championing a welcoming atmosphere where team members are empowered to openly share their thoughts and innovative ideas. Participate in company-wide initiatives and learning & development opportunities, such as tribes, hackathons, and programs like Women in Engineering, to foster a diverse and inclusive culture WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR? Strong experience in developing and deploying large-scale high performance services/APIs. Expertise with TypeScript or similar languages Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) Curious to understand “Why” before diving into technical implementation Good communication skills Proactive team player who’s committed to continuous improvement ENGINEERING AT BEAMERY Beamery is a hive buzzing with excitement We are one of the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK and London's top HR tech startup , disrupting recruitment with our Talent Operating System and building the world's smartest Talent Data Platform driving intelligence, insights and innovation around candidates, skillsets, diversity and more. Our customers include renowned brands (Nasdaq, AstraZeneca, Zoom, Zalando, Grab), undisclosed names (some of the world's largest organizations) and many more coming on board in 2021. Our team includes alumni from Spotify, PayPal, NVIDIA, DAZN, ORACLE, Starling Bank, etc. and everyone at Beamery brings something special. You could be just what we need. We seek and welcome people from diverse backgrounds who bring with them a variety of work and life experiences. We recognize there’s a lot of work to be done and we’re constantly looking for ways to bridge the diversity gap. We believe Beamery and the tech industry as a whole can only gain by providing opportunities to underrepresented groups and elevating their perspectives so that our culture, products and relationships are sensitive , inclusive and well-rounded. Our tech stack includes Node.js, React, Golang, Kubernetes, GCP, Google Cloud Functions, Kafka, MongoDB, Istio, Terraform, etc. We believe in empowering teams to be autonomous and self-led to address our many interesting and meaty technical and organizational challenges. People have joined Beamery for a variety of reasons: because of the category-defining product and the opportunity to disrupt how companies hire, because of the challenges and thrill of working in a fast-growing company while building out our engineering culture, or quite commonly because of the people they met in the hiring process and just resonated with. Some of the things we’re working on this year include Using artificial intelligence and a knowledge graph so recruiters can find the right candidates with the right skills faster Enabling data-informed talent transformation via dashboards that provide deep insights into efficiencies and bottlenecks in recruitment workflows Going from candidate-centric external recruitment to employee-centric internal mobility to help companies retain talent through internal opportunities Leveraging our Talent Data Platform to integrate with partners and enable them to use our refined enriched data to help our customers’ workflows, cementing Beamery’s place at the centre of the talent software ecosystem BENEFITS (UK) Competitive pay Stock options Pension Plan Unlimited Holiday Wellness days Private Healthcare Family Friendly Leave Policies Dog friendly office Regular socials, food & drink Quarterly team-building events Flexible learning & development budget Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email accommodationsbeamery.com Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.

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