Full Stack Engineer

Title: Full Stack Engineer
Location: Hybrid - London, UK

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 Technical Operations 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 remodeling current systems.

Playing a key part in ensuring that our in-house architected platform will meet the ever-increasing demands of capacity, availability, and reliability through the provision of effective tools and platforms capable of, configuration, detailed real time reporting and threshold monitoring, your efforts will ensure we have the capacity to identify issues and intervene before they become service affecting. Through the evaluation of issues and incumbent designs you will be pivotal in ensuring the infrastructure is robustly represented with effective event notification. The complexity of the platform will demand you are resourceful and diligent when pursuing remedies and improvements alike.

A focused individual capable of working with other technical experts and collaborating to affect a positive and appropriate outcome. Familiar with microservices and conversant with, frameworks, docker, runtime platforms, databases and other technologies you will bring insight and expertise to the architecture & design of the platform with your extensive experience of modern programing languages and middleware skills to maintain the rapid development and maturity path of our systems.

How you’ll make an impact:

• Participate or lead in the design and support of functional systems aligned to evolving reliability requirements.
• Collaborate within the department to provide robust data functions, logging, and alerting.
• Design and implementation of heuristic processes
• Maintain a constant improvement culture.
• Ensure the security of solutions is maintained.

We tend to look for people with:

• Proficiency in Node.js and React
• Comfortable operating with testing frameworks, preferably in Jest.
• Demonstrable enperince with GIT
• Experience working with JIRA or similar tools
• Conversant with Docker development environments and deployments
• Experience of operational environments and demands
• Dashboard architecture design experience including authentication & authorization
• Presentation and design.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills

Desireable:

• Knowledge with Typescripts and Python
• Experience with system orchestration tools, such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Understand common cloud platforms, preferable in Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience working with messaging tools, preferable in Pubsub.
• Working knowledge of SQL, preferable in BigQuery.
• Previous experience with MongoDB

Company Benefits:

• 25 days Annual Leave (rising to 30), plus 8 Bank Holidays
• 3200 Share Options allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
• Vitality Health Insurance - a range of options available on this below
• 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 to continue your development with personal allocated training budgets
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave package
• Pension - 4% employee, 3% employer
• Flexible working – remote/office etc.
• Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits and fruit in the office
• Free access to WeWork discounts and free online well-being sessions
• Free access to WeWork facilities (games floor, free beer taps, weekly events)

The Vitality Programme includes a number of reward benefits that all employees have access to as part of the plan, for example:

• Private Health Insurance covering new & existing conditions
• Private Optical, Audiological & Dental cover
• 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