Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer
(Core Science Integration Team)
About iProov
iProov is the world leader in biometric verification. We are on a mission to make the world 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.
The Role
Reports to: CSI Engineering Manager
Location: London, UK (Hybrid Working Model)
Comp: £55k-£75k (base) + Company Performance Bonus (10%) + Equity + UK iProov Benefits
We are open to hiring a either a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer, your role is to support the interface between our Science and Core teams, whilst contributing to its improvement
How you can make an impact
- Implement new machine learning services designed by the Science team
- Review, test, optimise code to reach state of the art performance
- Deploy to production ensuring no service disruption
- Debug and maintain production systems
- Design solutions to fulfil various other requests from the Science team
- Act as an owner by taking responsibility for your work, taking initiative and thinking laterally to get things done
- You should feel comfortable working in a small team of highly motivated technologists who challenge themselves and each other to deliver products to a high standard
- Willingness to participate in technical discussions and super interested in all things technical
- A thirst for knowledge, to learn and/or adapt quickly to highly complex issues
What we would like to see from you
- Experience with Python
- A keen interest in backend development
- Understanding of distributed systems (RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis, Memcached)
- Good knowledge of scientific libraries such as Numpy and Pandas
- Extensive usage of MongoDB, BigQuery, data visualisation and manipulation tools
- Experience with designing, training, evaluating machine learning models
- Familiarity with the main AI frameworks (Pytorch, Tensorflow, scikit-learn)
- Appreciation of Test Driven Development, SOLID principles and optimisation techniques
- Interest in DevOps
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)
- Growth Shares allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
- Salary sacrifice schemes including: Pension, Cycle To Work and Electric Car Scheme
- Nursery Sacrifice 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
- Enhanced paid family leave
- Pension - 5% employee, 3% employer
- Flexible hybrid working environment
- Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits with fruit in the WeWork 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 checks. As such, any offer would also depend on your ability to adhere to the UK Security check criteria.