As a Senior Full Stack Engineer at DISCO, you will lead the design and implementation of robust and scalable architecture, build comprehensive and secure APIs, and solve complex technical problems. You will significantly influence our application's architecture, design, and technology stack.
What You'll Do
- Work with cross-functional teams to develop and implement new, scalable features.
- Help translate product specifications and business requirements into buildable tasks.
- Ensure application security and assist with information security compliance.
- Lead incident response in a production environment.
- Cover an on-call rotation during UK business hours.
- Champion initiatives to address technical debt and prevent its accumulation.
- Write clean, scalable, high-quality code with unit and integration tests.
- Review and constructively critique pull requests.
- Contribute to deployment processes and improve the developer experience.
- Influence the engineering team to adopt best practices and design scalable applications.
- Help more junior engineers grow through mentoring and technical coaching.
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years of hands-on engineering experience across front end and back end.
- Demonstrated expertise with Python and Django, including the Django REST Framework.
- Demonstrated expertise in applying shift-left security principles.
- Expertise in designing and developing RESTful APIs.
- Proficient with React.js and Next.js.
- Experience working with modern design systems and front end tooling.
- Available to work three 2-hour blocks per fortnight outside of UK business hours to support collaboration with the team in Australia, with flexible time in lieu provided.
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
Nice to Have
- Bachelor's and/or Master's in Computer Science or comparable knowledge and experience.
- Experience responding effectively to production issues of a heavily used application.
- Experience working with relational databases; we use PostgreSQL.
- Experience developing for cloud platforms like AWS, GCP and Azure.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, especially Terraform.
- Experience with OpenSearch or other search solutions.
- Experience in DevOps and site reliability.
- Experience in a startup business.
- Experience working in a remote development team.
Technical Stack
- Python, Django, Django REST Framework
- React.js, Next.js
- PostgreSQL
- AWS, GCP, Azure
- Terraform
- OpenSearch
Benefits & Compensation
- A competitive salary in a fast growing startup.
- Office set up allowance.
- Annual learning and development allowance.
- 25 days of paid vacation leave per year.
- Paid bank and public holidays as outlined in our Leave Policy.
- Two weeks of paid sick leave per year.
- Paid Parental Leave.
- A company laptop.
- Monthly internet allowance or reimbursement.
- Autonomy to manage your work flexibly in a high trust environment.
Work Mode
This is a local-country role based in the United Kingdom.
DISCO is an equal-opportunity employer. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodations for individuals who have disabilities.
