Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Hybrid - Waterloo, London, UK
If you’d like to make the online world a safer place, come and join us.
About iProov:
iProov is the world leader in face biometric verification. We are on a mission to make the Internet a safer place for businesses and consumers and work with fantastic customers across a number of industry sectors - organisations using our technology include the US Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the NHS, Eurostar, the Australian government, the Singapore government, UBS and many more.
Diversity at iProov is about reflecting the customers we serve, holding the principles of equality and inclusion at the heart of everything we do and all that we stand for, embracing differences, creating possibilities, and growing together. We aim to foster a culture where individuals of all backgrounds feel confident in bringing their whole selves to work, feel included and their talents are nurtured, empowering them to contribute fully to our purpose.
Reporting to the Head of Platform you will be based out of our UK location and work across a range of functions from ongoing support of established practices, to developing new solutions aligned to internal development requirements, as well as upscaling and remodelling current systems.
We look for people with:
- Demonstrable industry experience with backend systems.
- Experience with python in large code bases - familiarity with pythons’ best practices and code hygiene
- Knowledge of API design and development, e experience with FastAPI or Flask frameworks
- Experience using NoSQL databases
- A good grasp of distributed system design (familiarity with one or many of RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis, Memcached)
- A self starter with the ability work independently and thrive in an autonomous environment
- Experience using Docker
- Appreciation of fundamental programming best practices e.g SOLID, DRY, TDD.
- Good understanding of kubernetes, GCP and other devops technologies
Benefits
- 25 days Annual Leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (more holiday with service - up to an extra 5 days off per year based on your continuous service)
- Share Options allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
- Company Bonus Scheme
- Salary sacrifice schemes including: Pension, Cycle To Work and Electric Car Scheme
- Work Overseas Perk - Work globally for up to 2 weeks
- Life Assurance
- SmartHealth - Access to private GP, Psychologist, Nutritionist along with tailored fitness plans for both you and your family
- Award winning L&D platform with personal allocated training budgets
- Work From Home budget which goes towards helping make your home working set up more comfortable
- Enhanced paid family leave
- Pension - 5% employee, 3% employer
- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits with fruit in the office
- Free access to WeWork discounts and free online well-being sessions
- Vitality Health - a range of options available on this below
The Vitality Programme includes a number of reward benefits that all employees have access to as part of the plan, for example:
- Private Health cover including Dental, Optical, and Audiology
- 50% off monthly gym memberships
- Apple watches significantly discounted based member vitality status
- Half price trainers with Runners Need
- Weekly rewards – Free coffee with Café Nero
- Monthly rewards – Free Cinema ticket
- Discounts on travel with Expedia (hotels) and Mr & Mrs Smith with discounts getting greater throughout the year based on a members vitality status
- Amazon prime free months based on activity
- Up to 25% cashback at Waitrose when buying healthy foods
- 75% off stays at Champneys Health Spas
- Allen Carr’s £299 no smoking programme for free
- Access to Vitality Healthy Mind with 30% off Headspace subscriptions and the ability to earn Vitality points for using Buddhify, Calm and Headspace
- Discounts on Weight Watchers
- 50%-80% off Comprehensive Private Health screenings
Due to the nature of our work, we may require our staff to pass a UK Security Clearance check. As such, any offer would also depend on your ability to adhere to the UK Security check criteria.