Senior Back-End Engineer

Job title:                      Senior Back-End Engineer

Organisation:            BCG Digital Ventures

Location:                    London

Salary:                        Competitive

Posting date:              24 September 2018

Closing date:              22 October 2018

We’re BCG Digital Ventures. Welcome.

Have you always wanted to work in a dynamic, fast moving startup, but were put off by the associated risk? At BCG Digital Ventures we launch a new business every month and we have the backing of one of the world’s leading consultancy firms: the Boston Consulting Group. We combine BCG’s resources and domain expertise with our diverse, global team of accomplished designers, engineers, product experts and business strategists to launch ventures in many different industries, incorporating cutting edge technology such as blockchain or machine learning. All of us are entrepreneurs at heart, seeking to move quickly and nimbly in order to find new ways of delivering value to our customers.

As a back end engineer you will be a valued member of a multi-skilled venture team, building disruptive and innovate products and businesses. We operate in a truly agile fashion, so you will get to deliver working software to customers daily and learn from the results. You will bring your experience and skill to bear on the multitude of new and exciting challenges that appear when trying to bring a new product or business to market. Is this an exciting adventure that you’d like to be part of?

Duties and responsibilities

What you'll get to do

• Growing innovative, groundbreaking products and business that address real customer frictions;
• learning how to found, grow and operate successful startups;
• designing and architect innovative, modern architectures;
• leading the technical development for large areas of a product;
• supporting and mentoring junior engineers;
• writing code as part of a diverse and multiskilled development team;
• championing a focus on software qualities such as testability, security, scalability, operability etc;
• working with state of the art technologies to solve genuine, real-world problems;
• championing good agile practices that provide a foundation for iterative product development;
• building strong relationships with product managers, venture architects and designers;
• enjoying working in a diverse, dynamic, collaborative, transparent, environment where everyone's ideas and opinions are equally valued;
• contributing to the growth of the DV London Engineering cohort;
• demonstrating and communicating a passion for implementing highly scalable and maintainable backend services; and
• sharing technical solutions and product ideas through design review, pair programming, code review and technological discussions.

Skills, qualifications and experience

As a Senior Back-End Engineer, you will need:

• hands-on development and delivery experience with a broad mix of languages and technologies;
• specific experience with Ruby on Rails, Java Script and Python
• experience working with Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches, such as Continuous Integration, TDD, Infrastructure as Code etc;
• experience building cloud native software architectures in AWS;
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering;
• real passion for solving customer frictions through simple and effective software;
• strong people skills that contribute to an open and collaborative environment;
• relevant experience in communicating ideas and decisions to a variety of team members;
• an ability to embrace and reduce uncertainty through continual validated learning;
• ability to reason intelligently about complex problems; and
• relevant ability to apply experience to new domains.

To learn more, visit us at BCGDV.com.

Interested applicants may apply by uploading a covering letter and CV directly to the website. Interviews will take place after resumes have been screened for minimum requirements. Please note that this position is not restricted solely to the responsibilities listed above and that the job scope and responsibilities are subject to change.

BCG Digital Ventures is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law.