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Staff Platform Engineer Job in Greater London

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Greater London
11 months ago
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My client are a leading online retailer. We are seeking several Staff Level Platform / Software Engineers for them

What is the Opportunity

This opportunity lies in a key strategic area to lead digital innovation and improve upon personalisation of campaigns for customers, which drives growth across all digital channels using customer data, AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML capabilities and journey orchestrators. You will be part of one of the Product Engineering teams that focuses on the following:

* Build and drive tech strategy to scale platforms to personalise customer journeys across various channels

* Enabling collaboration and ML Ops practices in designing data pipelines with Data Science team members.

* Scaling Client and Server-side experimentation using A/B testing platforms across digital channels experience.

* Driving and automating campaigns through campaign management tools and personalizing user journeys.

You should apply if you

Design and drive important, high-visibility initiatives that boost the platform’s resilience and scalability across multiple teams. Lead and guide others through architectural decisions for new and existing distributed, high-throughput, real-time systems. Spot potential system risks and trends in reliability and produce solutions to tackle them. Solve problems collaboratively, communicating decisions through tech talks and white-boarding sessions. Coach, mentor and develop less experienced engineers. Promote a high-performance culture, technical excellence, values, trust, collaboration, and improved ways of working within the team and the wider software engineering community Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken and able to adjust to different audiences. Ability to provide constructive feedback to team members. Cares about the business and the bigger picture strategy for the Product group.

What you need to succeed

Proficient experience building highly scalable service applications with Python and experience in one of Typescript, Java, Kotlin. Experience with DevSecOps: you build it, secure it and run it Expertise with microservice architectures and a DDD (Domain Driven Design) mindset Experience with containerisation tooling such as Kubernetes and Docker Advocate and experience in Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and technology. A strong understanding of cloud infrastructure platforms and services. Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as New Relic and Dynatrace Should have worked in a dynamic and agile environment

Package

Hybrid Working Industry-leading pension of up to 12% contribution Bonus up to 40% 20% discount Learning days once a month, Tech/Ed days once a quarter and Hackathon every other quarter A range of well-being support (including free counselling and a virtual GP for you and your immediate family) 25% off gym memberships, access to online fitness classes and discounts for complementary health services, such as nutrition and lifestyle coaching
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