Senior Software Engineer
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Summary
Valarian Technologies is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Backend Engineer to join their growing team in London. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining platform and application-level services with required skills in Go, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure). The position is full-time and remote.
- Strong command of Go
- Experience with building services on top of Kubernetes
- Experience with building services on at least two major cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with on-premise production deployments
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, or similar languages
- 5+ years’ experience building highly scalable distributed systems and services
- Experience building applications in a service-oriented architecture
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
The Role
Our Product Development organization is made up of small teams of engineers who work collaboratively to build cross functional capabilities, streamline user workflows and continuously improve our software's efficiency and reliability.
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Backend Engineer to join our growing team. As a Backend Engineer, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and maintaining a wide range of platform and application-level services for end users across myriad sectors.
Required skills/expertise:
- Strong command of Go
- Experience with building services on top of Kubernetes
- Experience with building services on at least two major cloud providers (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with on-premise production deployments
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related field
- Strong coding skills with demonstrated proficiency in programming languages, such as Go, Python, Rust, Java, or similar languages
- 5+ years’ experience building highly scalable distributed systems and services
- Experience building applications in a service-oriented architecture
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
Salary & Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity grants
- Employer pension contributions;
- UK roles include enhanced employer pension contributions
- US roles include 401(k) retirement savings plan – traditional and Roth
- Platinum healthcare benefit;
- For US roles, we offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans at little to no cost to you
- For UK roles, Valarian will cover the full cost of the Private Medical Insurance (PMI) premium
- Basic Life / AD&D and long-term disability insurance 100% covered by Valarian
- Hybrid work arrangements are managed at team level
- Generous holiday calendar and PTO
- Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility)