Backend Engineer (Multiple Teams) Full Time Hybrid

“Previously Startups of London has featured Marshmallow in our article The Complete List of Unicorn Startups in the UK 2022.

You can also click on the company name above or go to their company page from here and learn more about their culture, business and management.

As for the role; Marshmallow is looking for a Backend Engineer (Multiple Teams), to join their company. Learn more about the role, requirements as well as benefits in the below description. Click on the Apply Now button to complete job application.”

– Startup of London Team

The Role:

Our engineers are at the heart of the solutions. They work on product builds from start to finish, solving many challenges to help us build quickly and scale up! Our engineers cover a range of skills across frontend, backend, fullstack, iOS, and Android, and work alongside designers, data scientists, researchers, and product managers within our product teams.

Our product teams include: the new Home team, the Growth team, the Efficiency team, and the Claims team (to name a few!) Each team sets its own roadmap, and actively pushes our codebase forward.

What you’ll be doing

• Working in a product team enabling efficient automation for tens of thousands of policies, ensuring that we provide customers with affordable, instant, and inclusive insurance
• Participate in technical scoping, estimation, and briefs. We don’t believe in heavyweight processes, and instead, aspire to follow Agile principles. Whilst we borrow heavily from practices like Scrum and Kanban, we also borrow rituals from other high-performing delivery teams, so we’re looking for engineers who are adaptable and open-minded
• Work closely with the team’s product owner to understand requirements, build solutions, deliver functionality, write automation tests and build continuous delivery pipelines all the way through to deployment, monitoring and supporting these systems in production
• Be a contributor to medium to large-sized projects
• Understanding of rationale and the business impact of proposed changes, and being able to adapt to changing requirements
• Help us evolve our architecture to optimize for product delivery speed
• Participate in setting the quarterly team OKRs

Requirements

Who you are

• You are a self-starter who likes to take ownership
• You enjoy working as part of a team and owning the work you do
• You enjoy creating and managing processes
• You are curious and have a can-do attitude
• You are organized and can be relied upon to get things done
• You enjoy working in a high growth/scaling environment
• You enjoy problem-solving and creating innovative solutions
• You have a continuous delivery mindset
• You demonstrate that you know how and when to effectively make trade-offs in the face of ambiguity and uncertainty.
• You are comfortable with changing priorities
• You are pragmatic in terms of when it is safe to cut corners and why
• You are passionate about mentoring others

What we’re looking for from you

• Experience working in cross-functional teams in a metric-driven framework, ideally OKRs
• 1+ experience with Java 8+ & Spring
• Commercial experience with Microservices architecture
• Commercial awareness or experience with AWS
• Commercial awareness or experience with Terraform
• Worked in a high-growth start-up environment or product-focused environment

Our Tech Stack

• Java 15 μServices
• Spring Boot with Spring Cloud
• Dynamo DB
• Terraform
• Docker
• AWS Fargate
• Event Sourcing
• Neptune DB

Benefits

Perks of the job

• Flexi-office working – Spend 1-2 days a week with your team in our collaborative London office. The rest is up to you!
• 12 weeks worldwide remote – Work from anywhere in the world for up to 12 weeks a year
• Work from home budget – Get a personal budget to set up your home office
• Learning and training – Personal budgets for books and training courses to help you grow in your role. Plus 2 days a year – on us! – to further your skillset
• Mental well-being support – Access therapy and mental health sessions through Self Space, and sign up for your free subscription to Calm
• Equity – Get options in Marshmallow as part of your offer, and have a real stake in the company’s success
• Private health care – Enjoy all the benefits Vitality has to offer, including reduced gym memberships and discounts on smartwatches

Plus all the rest; 33 days holiday (including bank holidays), pension, cycle-to-work scheme, monthly team socials, and company-wide socials every month!

Our Process

We break it up into 4 stages:

• Initial call with Michela Biccari our Tech Talent Acquisition Partner (45 mins)
• A skill-based interview where you will discuss your previous experience with one of our Engineering Managers (45 mins)
• Tech assessment, followed by a technical interview with one of our Tech Leads + one other Engineer (1 hour)
• OR a paired programming challenge (depending on level) and a technical interview with one of our Tech Leads + one other Engineer (1 hour 30)
• A culture interview with one of our Founders or one of our Bar Raisers to check that your work style fits our processes and values (1 hour)
• We’ll let you know if you’re invited to an interview or not. But, as a small team with a lot of applications to consider, we can’t give individual feedback on each application

Everyone belongs at Marshmallow

At Marshmallow, we want to hire people from all walks of life with the passion and skills needed to help us achieve our company mission. To do that, we’re committed to hiring without judgment, prejudice, or bias.

We encourage everyone to apply for our open roles. Gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, or background does not affect how we process job applications.

We’re working hard to build an inclusive culture that empowers our people to do their best work, have fun, and feel that they belong.

Background Checks

To meet our regulatory obligations as an FCA-authorised financial services company, we need to do some background checks on all new hires. That means carrying out a DBS check and making sure you don’t have any live criminal proceedings. Feel free to ask our Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions about this!