Senior Backend Engineer Full Time Remote

Previously Startups of London has featured Juro in our podcast episode in 2022, where we had the opportunity to have a lovely chat with their Co-Founder and CEO. Check out the full podcast episode and a detailed article about their company. 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; Juro is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer 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

To help define, develop and improve Juro infrastructure and backend services using Typescript and Node.js. Right now, we are looking for Backend Engineers in two of our teams:

**When you join our Techn Scaling team:**

You will focus on helping our product teams move faster — adjusting infrastructure, refactoring codebase and performing optimisations of every aspect of the Juro platform.

Day to day, you will face non-trivial tasks and problems that require creativity and critical thinking to solve. Some of the upcoming tasks and projects that you’ll be involved in:

• Developing of the core codebase of solution.
• Seeking potential bottlenecks in Juro infrastructure and getting rid of those by platforms, technologies or changes in the codebase.
• Streamlining, configuration and automation of deployment of infrastructure for other teams to function smoothly.
• Getting rid of big monolith by microservice architectural approach and decomposing service codebase into smaller chunks-microservices
• Organizing communications infrastructure so that microservices can exchange data in a safe and reliable manner. Would potentially involve Kafka.
• Optimising MongoDB performance by whatever means possible even if it means going away from using Mongo in favor of something more Redis-like.

Whereabouts

Anywhere* remote distributed (GMT+0 to GMT+3) or based in our Riga hub.

* Exceptions apply for sanctioned countries.

Interviews

4 stages totalling around 3.5 hours over 2-3 weeks.

Team

Currently, 2 of our product teams are looking for new people: Technical Scaling team and Integrations team. 

Reporting to

Valeriy, team lead of our Technical Scaling team

Your progression with Juro:

You will join us on IC3 level in our career map and, with time, grow as as either an Individual Contributor (IC) or Team Lead (MN). More about this in career framework for progression at Juro. We will offer support for whichever route suits you best in your future.

Why join us?

• You decide what is best.
  You will have autonomy to make decisions, define tools and processes that lead to the best outcomes. You can propose new tools and systems for solving problems, there is no tight system stack.
  
• Make an impact.
  We a still small team — ca. 5 engineers per workstream. As a result, your impact on what we build will be significant: you will see results of your work not in months, but weeks.
  
• No legacy technologies.
  We use a modern stack like TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, Redis. As a bonus, you will have debugging tools like Sentry, Greylog, Grafana and geek tool for task tracking — Linear.
  
• Time to fix.
  Every other week we have tech retro – if you see a problem, something doesn’t work for you, or you wanna improve anything – we have a space for this.
  Also we have Maintenance week – once in every 6 weeks we have a week to work on technical debt or bugs which you never find time to fix.
  
• Code review in place.
  We will help you make your code better on code reviews and expect same from you to help us to make our code better
  
• GitHub.
  Our code is on GitHub and we’re actively using GitHub actions – to run the tests, build, release, and automate anything we can.
  
• Join the best London startup to work for in 2022.
  We’re immensely proud being voted #1 of the top 50 London startups to work for in 2022. This is the result of hard work, to show not tell, and make Juro the best place to work for. This spans from setting concrete steps become a truly diverse, inclusive workplace, to investing in a culture of growth, to offering flexibility to everyone and more.
  For 2022, we plan on expanding on all of these areas — what benefits we offer, how we give and receive feedback and how we foster a genuine sense of belonging for all Jurors to bring their full and best selves to work.