The role…

As a Software Engineer at Sponge, you will work collaboratively with clients and stakeholders within the business to create Learning solutions that will achieve outstanding results for clients. You will create rich user Interfaces for web applications using Vue.js and you'll build backend systems and Integrations using Python. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a smart & supportive team to solve difficult but interesting tasks.

Stack…Python 3, Django, Typescript, Vue.js, Node

Who we are…

We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join us (a world leading, digital learning provider) in designing and delivering training solutions for global brands across multiple sectors and industries including pharmaceutical, technology, finance, retail, manufacturing and professional services. Our exciting client list includes some of the worlds’ largest brands – AstraZeneca, Coca-Cola, Tesco, and Royal Mail, to name but a few.  With a strong financial backing, we’re focused on leading the pack in Learning & Development, bringing together a heritage of creativity and technology, and applying the latest thinking in learning science to deliver truly effective digital learning. 

Job titles can be an enigma these days, so let’s break it down a little!

 The ideal candidate will have:  

• a minimum of 3 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, delivering high-quality software solutions
• contributed to a variety of software solutions using different technologies
• a good understanding of highly available, scalable systems
• embrace the importance of producing well-tested software

We need people who will:

• You are passionate about developing software that enables millions of learners across the globe to access quality training to develop their skills
• You are quick to learn and actively seek opportunities to develop your technical and problem-solving skills
• You have a passion for modern technologies and best practices
• You have a desire to deliver quality and excellence
• You are a motivated team player and love to work collaboratively to solve complex problems
• You are open to giving and receiving feedback and love to contribute to the continued Improvement and success of the business

What we can offer you……

• A competitive salary – our priority is to find the right person 
• Flexible working hours and the opportunity to work from home some of the week 
• Pension 
• Income protection and life assurance  
• 5 weeks holiday plus bank holidays 
• Your birthday off 
• A fabulous health cash plan 

Location – Hybrid Bristol

Our headquarters are in the Bristol area (The Paintworks). We offer a mix of home and office working because we believe both are necessary for a high performing team. We know you need some time to concentrate and avoid constant commuting, so homeworking is essential, but we also feel face-to-face time is important too.

We work in a Hybrid way with ideally 2/3 days per week in the office and the rest of the week worked remotely. We offer flexible working options also to help find the right work-life balance for you.

Be you, with us!

At Sponge, we are all different. And that’s what makes us great! We hire talented people with different and diverse backgrounds, stories, and perspectives not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger.

We are actively working and committed to increasing diversity in our teams and management positions. It’s our ambition to create an inclusive environment where we can allbe ourselves together.

What’s next?

If this sounds like you, then you’re on your way to joining a forward-thinking industry leader and a team of like-minded, exceptionally talented people. Simply send us your CV, and we will be in touch.

We can’t wait to hear from you! 

The team at Sponge has built a global reputation for pushing boundaries on what is possible in the digital learning space.  From international organisations focused on global change to companies whose products you probably use every day, we design learning applications that are effective, engaging and focused on making a difference to the lives of all our learners.  

As a Lead Software Engineer at Sponge, you will be working within a cross-functional agile team of product, engineering and DevOps. While this role will primarily focus on backend development, it’s important to have a firm grasp of the full stack and how things work end-to-end across the applications.  

So, what do our Lead software engineers do?  

The role is part of the Product and Engineering team, reporting to the Head of Technology. The software engineers work as part of a team on a number of eLearning applications in the portfolio, with the major one being our learning management platform.  

You will be proactively shaping the engineering roadmap, evolve the way we develop and help take engineering to the next level, with focus on accelerating delivery, grow adoption of best practices, improve quality, and all with an enthusiastic and practical attitude. 

Technologies we work with:  

• Python, using frameworks including Django and FastAPI 
• Postgres , Redis,  
• Sentry, Grafana  
• Docker, Kubernetes  
• Terraform 
• AWS/GCP 
• GitHub 
• Linux (Debian/Alpine preferable)  
• Build pipelines (GitHub Actions)  

We’re looking for people who have experience with:  

• At least 5 years of proven experience as a Python developer  
• Django, Flask or similar frameworks  
• Continuous integration and deployment tools and techniques  
• Designing, planning and leading development on sets of related stories
• Writing clean, testable, maintainable code
• Designing and development of RESTFul APIs
• Performance tuning and optimisation
• Designing and using relational databases to store and query complex data
• Handling large datasets and designing for scalability
• Finding ways to improve system robustness, resilience and stability  

We’re looking for people who can demonstrate:  

• Logical thinking and problem solving  
• Aptitude and keenness to learn new tech and processes  
• Good communication skills (written and verbal) to work as part of a close-knit team  
• Willingness to coach and mentor more junior colleagues  
• Ability to constructively peer review other people’s code  
• Understanding of the importance of security and how to engineer secure systems  
• Ability to understand whole systems and how their various parts fit together  
• User-centric design  

Qualifications needed:  

Minimum of Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field.  

Location  - Hybrid and Remote opportunities available for this role.

Our new headquarters is in the Bristol area (The Paintworks) we offer flexible working hours, and there are remote and hybrid options for this position to suit your preferences.

We offer a mix of home and office working because we believe both are necessary for a high performing team. We know you need some time to concentrate and avoid constant commuting, so homeworking is essential and we are happy to tailor this to suit the individual offering hybrid or remote working options.

We currently have main offices in the UK in Bristol  and in Europe in Berlin and Brussels.

What we will give you:  

Our software engineering teams are crucial to the work we do at Sponge, so what would you get in return for joining them? You would have the opportunity to work for a forward-thinking company focused on success, well-being and career development. The opportunity to work with and learn from a team of exceptionally talented people whist working in a supportive and creative environment.  

Be you, with us!  

At Sponge, we are all different. And that’s what makes us great! We hire talented people with different and diverse backgrounds, stories, and perspectives not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes us stronger.   

We are actively working and committed to increasing diversity in our teams and management positions. It’s our ambition to create an inclusive environment where we can all be ourselves together.   

What’s next?  

If this sounds like you, then you’re on your way to joining a forward-thinking industry leader and a team of like-minded, exceptionally talented people. Simply send us your CV, and we will be in touch.  

We can’t wait to hear from you!  

The Role

Did you know? Alternative investing has the potential to generate higher returns compared to traditional investments over the long term. AI and Machine Learning are revolutionizing the way alternative investments are managed and analyzed. Investors are using these technologies to gain insights, see opportunities, and optimize their investment strategies.

Addepar is building solutions to support our clients' alternatives investment strategies. We’re using AI to automate and streamline ingestion and analysis of alternatives investment data. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement and deliver these ground breaking software solutions. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including data scientists and product managers to build intuitive solutions that revolutionize how clients experience AI and ML in the application and transform their experience of alternatives operations.

You will work closely with data scientists on document based workflow automation and peer engineering teams to define the tech stack. You will iterate quickly through cycles of testing a new product offering on Addepar. If you've crafted scalable systems, or worked with phenomenal teams on hard problems in financial data, or are just interested in solving really hard technical, critically important problems, come join us!

What You’ll Do

• Design, build and iterate on web based applications for alternatives data professionals
• Build responsive UIs that enable PDF annotations, tagging and navigation.
• Implement and maintain engineering solutions by writing well-designed, testable code.
• Lead individual project priorities, achievements, and software releases.
• Collaborate with machine learning engineers to bring ML models into the backend stack of the application in Python or other languages.
• Collaborate with product managers and client teams on product requirements iterations, design feasibility and user feedback.
• Document software functionality, system design, and project plans; this includes clean, readable code with comments.
• Learn and promote engineering standard methodologies and principles.

Who You Are

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in software engineering
• Proficient with Python, Java or similar
• Experience with streaming data platforms and event driven architecture
• Ability to write software to process, aggregate, and compute on top of large amounts of data in an efficient way.
• Engage with all levels of collaborators on a technical level.
• A strong ownership mentality and strive to take on the most important problems.
• Experience with AWS is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of front end development a plus.

Senior Systems Engineer - Warp

Available locations: UK or Portugal

What you'll do

As a Senior Systems engineer in the WARP team you will join a team that works on the backend system that allows our customers to manage their devices via our Zero Trust Network solution. 
In this role, you will work on the design, capacity planning, development, maintenance and enhancement of features that make our WARP and Zero Trust product, such as Device Posture, Orchestration and Notification.

We are looking for engineers that are versatile and display leadership qualities capable of setting technical direction of the product, with a focus on growth, scalability and high-availability.
You will support the management team on the planning, priority, deadlines and deliverables of solutions to our customers requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance large scale software solutions.
• Provide technical leadership to the team projects and objectives
• Influence a team of engineers, coach and mentor a distributed team.
• Support the management team on the strategy and roadmap of the team, identifying opportunities and critical projects for the success of the team and product.
• Facilitate alignment and clarity across the Zero Trust teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
• Support on the management of project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience

• At least 3 years of experience of technical leadership
• Experience managing high available systems with disaster recovery support.
• Experience in at least of the following languages: Go, Rust
• Experience in Typescript
• Experience designing and integrating RESTful APIs at scale
• Knowledge of SQL and common relational database systems such as PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Knowledge on distributed NoSQL databases
• Excellent debugging experience and optimization skills
• Experience with Kubernetes

WHAT YOU'LL DO

The Braze Email team is responsible for building and maintaining the core infrastructure that delivers billions of personalized emails a month to our customers’ end users as well as processing all associated reporting data. This includes a highly parallelized platform to personalize & send emails at huge scale, REST APIs to manage/track user subscriptions, web pages to allow end-users to self-manage preferences, and dashboards to configure customer email domains.

As a member of the team, you will work independently or alongside a senior engineer to build out new features and improve stability/performance. You will get a chance to tackle significant engineering challenges, such as: architecting new iterations of critical components on backend systems, building and optimizing for massive scale, and rebuilding parts of our dashboard on the latest modern tech stack. 

WHO YOU ARE

• 1-3 years of full-stack development experience
• Strong understanding of design, data structures, and algorithms
• A self starter with great communication and organizational skills
• Experience working in an on-call rotation supporting a production environment
• Prior experience working in a team environment
• Bonus:
• Professional experience building distributed systems at scale
• Professional experience with any of: Ruby, Rails, MongoDB, Redis, Sidekiq, React, TypeScript
• Experience with agile processes

The Team:

The Celonis Symbio Team is at the forefront of revolutionizing business process management with the introduction of Symbio, an innovative AI-driven software. We create Business Process Management Software that lets your people do their best work. We believe that, from the production line to the executive board, everyone in your organization essentially wants the same thing: Flow. Everything we do at Celonis is in the service of creating Flow and allowing for a new kind of business processes: Of the people. By the people. For the people. Flow is not an end in itself. It fosters a healthier process culture – with better transparency, lower churn, and much more engagement. It makes us proud and motivated to have the highest process adoption rate throughout the BPM space.

The Role:

Join our dynamic Symbio BPM team as a Senior Full Stack .NET Developer and play a crucial role in revolutionizing business process management (BPM). As a key member of our development team, you will be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and maintaining the software that powers efficient and scalable BPM solutions.

The work you’ll do:

• Shape the success of Symbio with your ideas and creativity
• Develop our BPM related products with agile methods (SCRUM) in a growth environment 
• Work with the latest development methods and technologies in the Microsoft environment, including MS Azure
• Develop, and maintain microservices that form the backbone of our BPM software. Ensure scalability, resilience, and high performance.
• Utilize your proficiency in both middleware and backend technologies.

The qualifications you need:

• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge
• Fluent in English
• Deep knowledge and experience with C# and .NET 6/7/8
• Proven experience and competent in both the development and use of REST APIs
• Familiarity with with the test frameworks xUnit, nUnit and bUnit would be advantageous
• Knowledge of Blazor (Razor Pages, Fluxor) is a plus
• Enthusiastic about innovation and new technologies such as Cloud (MS Azure), Micro Service Architecture and digitalization 
• Ability to work independently and autonomously
• Passionate about developing software that brings true customer value

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success and reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

You will:

• Leveraging expert Java knowledge to enhance new features and maintain platform stability, while continuously enhancing technical excellence.
• Maintain services using RESTful API conventions and a microservices approach.
• Evaluate and implement new technologies, create proof of concepts, and discuss architectural decisions.
• Improve the existing technical specifications and documentation.
• Troubleshoot production issues and assist with code maintenance.
• Implement internal process improvements, including automating manual tasks and optimizing data flows and infrastructure for scalability and stability.
• Collaborate with engineers, engineering managers, and stakeholders to ensure valuable contributions and refine product features.
• Provide on-call support as needed.

You have:

• At least 5+ years of core Java experience using Spring Boot– Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns - MUST
• 5+ years of experience with RESTful API and large-scale distributed microservices architecture - MUST
• 3+ years of experience in Kubernetes and databases (MySQL) - MUST
• Experience with GCP and Google FireStore - advantage
• Experience with CI/CD or GitlabCI, FluxCD, Jenkins, and TeamCity - MUST
• Familiar with DevOps for deploying applications from Dev to Production environments and service monitoring tools like Grafana, and Kibana.
• Experience in the knowledge of JavaScript (Node.js)
• Experience in coordination with stakeholders and cross-team/ -departments and ability to succeed in a largely virtual organization, as well as knowledge and experience with agile values, principles, and methodologies (e.g., based on SCRUM or Kanban).
• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• You are a strong communicator with very good written and verbal English skills.

Benefits: 

• Time away: Vacation, public holidays and care days.
• Financial: Pension, deferred pension and ESPP.
• Family: Parental leave.
• Development:  Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Additional: Exclusive perks and discounts.
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here: 

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson:

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.

Senior Software Engineer-Backend

Looking for an innovative, high-growth company in one of the hottest segments of the security market? Look no further than Veracode!

Veracode is recognized asa premier provider of SaaS-based software security solutions, transforming the
way companies secure applications in today’s software-driven world. Veracode recently acquired Longbow Security, a pioneer in security risk management for cloud-native environments, underscoring our commitment to help organizations effectively manage and reduce application risk across the growing attack surface. Learn more about us at www.veracode.com!

What you will be responsible for:

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain critical improvements across the Longbow product resulting in a highly stable and performant platform.
• Diagnose complex issues, evaluate competing solutions, and execute the best path forward.
• Ensure that security measures are incorporated into every aspect of the platform.
• Continuously extend the Longbow product with new features that solve real-world security problems based on your experience and feedback from customers.
• Provide input into the architecture and design of the product/platform; collaborating with the entire team in solving the problems the correct way.
• Identify opportunities for technical innovation and improvements.
• Collaborate with other team members, both junior and senior, to help increase their technical capabilities, drive results-oriented execution, and create an environment of open innovation and creativity.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant technical experience.
• 5-6+ years of software development experience in Java, Python, or Go (ideally, or other software languages).
• Proven ability to quickly learn new programming languages, frameworks, platforms and tools.
• Experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining micro-services and cloud-native services (AWS preferably) in a production environment and scaling them quickly.
• Knowledge/experience designing and implementing data-intensive, distributed, streaming systems.
• Solid understanding of software design principles, concurrency, data structures and algorithms.
• Strong knowledge and experience with building REST and GraphQL APIs.
• Appetite for learning new technologies and curiosity about how things work.
• Track record of owning projects from ideation to production and being able to competently and smoothly hand-off your work to others.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, capable of engaging with both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Experience with the cybersecurity domain (advantage).

What we offer you

• Outstanding Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage to meet all your healthcare needs. 
• Wellness benefits to help you focus on what’s most important.
• “Take What You Need” time off policy.
• Extensive development and training offerings to help you grow your career at Veracode.
• Generous 401k match to help save for your future.
• Amazing community of professionals who take pride in what we do every day.

Compensation Transparency

In accordance with U.S. pay transparency laws, Veracode provides compensation transparency for roles based in the United States. Click here to view our compensation ranges by grade. Please note, specific compensation may be influenced by various factors including candidates experience, education, and work location.

Job Grade: Senior

Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.