Senior Product Engineer

Risk Ledger; London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000

Job description

About us

Risk Ledger is developing a network of connected organisations, all working together to defend against cybersecurity attacks in the supply chain.

Organisations rely on us to establish trust, through sharing their security maturity and visualising the risks posed by their supply chain ecosystem. And we're already trusted by customers like ASOS, Snyk, BAE Systems and the NHS.

We are putting together an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets to drive us towards our vision. Risk Ledger is built on the respect we have for one another and our users, united by our shared values and mission.

Every one of us is still learning: it's how we grow as individuals. We're curious. We're ambitious. And we're humble and honest. At Risk Ledger, we aim high to find the best solutions we can and always put our users first.

This role:

Our Product Engineers play a crucial role in our user and product experience. You will be focused on solving end-to-end product challenges in the best manner for our customers. Whilst you may have a natural inclination towards the backend, we expect you to delve into any aspect of our tech stack as necessary to have an impact on our customers and success of the business.

You will be working on a team primarily focused on utilising external data and scanning to deliver valuable product outcomes to our customers. This is a recently added product area for us so there will be plenty of opportunity to make a significant impact to what we deliver.

You'll be collaborating on a daily basis with designers, product managers, other engineers and the wider business to create a great product experience and continuously ship value to our users.

And as an engineer in a small but focused team, you will also have a long-standing impact on our engineering strategy, codebase and developer experience.

In the role you will:

1. Collaborate to deliver an exceptional product. From understanding initial needs to crafting usable solutions, you'll work directly with product managers and designers to bring ideas to life. And by that, we don't just mean implement requirements. We like our engineers to learn as much as possible about our customers so that over time they can suggest new features, challenge assumptions and really contribute to making our customers' lives better.
2. Develop high quality systems and code. Working across our stack, you'll design and develop the systems that underpin the Risk Ledger product and advance us towards our vision.
3. Move fast, with an eye for quality. You enjoy moving fast while maintaining a high quality of code through testing, seeking simplicity, striving for consistency and implementing best practices.
4. Enjoy being a generalist. We are building an amazing and talented team from a diverse set of backgrounds and skillsets. Our engineers are empowered to work in all areas of our platform, and across all areas of the business, directly contributing to the wider success of the company.
5. Nurture the talent and growth of the team. You will be able to mentor more junior colleagues to level up both hands-on technical and architectural decision making skills.
6. Have an impact. We're a growing startup - so you'll have the opportunity to get involved in areas outside of your day to day role. It's exciting!

You'll have:

1. Worked in multiple engineering teams focused on building a product; weighing up delivering value to clients against technical improvement.
2. Deep experience with backend development.
   • Language preferably Go; if not Java or Python.
   • Worked with SQL, Docker / Kubernetes, Postgres and AWS.
   • Worked with at least one messaging solution: Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS or SNS.
3. Some commercial experience with frontend development. JavaScript and TypeScript, and when it comes to frameworks, preferably Vue, React or Angular.
4. A desire to deeply understand our customers and the problems they face, in order to improve their day-to-day experience.
5. An ability to thrive in ambiguity, tackling problems that might not be well defined and without obvious solutions.
6. A keen sense of curiosity, with a natural drive to learn and grow.
7. A passion to work collaboratively with others. We like to work as a team, not a collection of individuals and we expect you to have the same mindset.

You might have:

1. Participated in mentoring other members of your squad or team. While this role will be hands-on technical as an individual contributor, we do expect Seniors to take on some of this nurturing responsibility.
2. A startup background. We're not concerned if you have not worked in this environment, as long as you are willing to get stuck into the ambiguity of an early stage company.
3. Involvement in data processing and integrating large datasets into a product.
4. Experience being a key person in the designing of a non-trivial solution and working with others to implement.
5. Worked with observability solutions (Kibana, Grafana, Sentry).
6. Experience using further technologies we use (Terraform, AWS RDS, AWS ECS or EKS, AWS EventBridge).

Salary range

£90,000-£110,000 GBP

The perks

• Competitive base salary
• Generous EMI equity package
• 3% employer match on pension
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Additional 30 days of unpaid leave per year to use as you wish
• Ad-hoc companywide time off - last year we gave everyone 'rest leave' in August and over the festive period
• Private healthcare with AXA Insurance - including enhanced mental wellbeing coverage
• Hybrid working policy, typically 2-3 days in the office
• Enhanced family (parental) leave - gender-neutral policy, 12 weeks paid leave
• 5 days Caretaker's leave
• Enhanced occupational sick pay
• £500 WFH budget
• All the learning resources and books you want to aid in your personal development
• Regular socials to unwind and have some fun