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Staff Engineer

London

About Attest

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London and New York, Attest is a consumer research SaaS platform for the world’s biggest and fastest growing brands. Attest’s easy-to-use, self-serve dashboard is coupled with on-demand research expertise, empowering anyone to quickly conduct high-quality research and be continuously tapped into the consumer.

Some of the notable brands leveraging continuous insights to put the consumer’s voice at the center of their business with Attest include Unilever, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Klarna, Brew Dr. Kombucha, Trustpilot, JCDecaux among many others. To date, Attest has raised $90 million in venture capital with backing from investors such as Kismet, Schroders, and NEA. To learn more about Attest, visit www.askattest.com.

The opportunity 

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Backend Staff Engineer to help shape the future of the Engineering strategy - taking the team to the next level. You’ll help to set the direction of backend engineering, navigating everything from decision making to implementation, whilst expertly supporting engineers to balance quality, rapid delivery and value with complexity.

You’ll serve as a leader -  mentoring and guiding a team of highly competent engineers, through sharing your experience, knowledge and insights.

Salary

The salary range for this role is £100K to £125K. 

In person and remote working balance 

We embrace a flexible hybrid work model. While we don't mandate specific office days, we encourage Attesters to work on-site 1-2 days per week, typically Tuesdays and Thursdays. This approach allows us to collaborate in person, while ensuring enough time remotely for deep, focussed work. Learn more about our hybrid working philosophy here.

What you’ll be doing…

  • Mentor and coach other engineers, helping them grow into confident developers while sharing your experience and feedback.
  • Drive improvements in engineering efficiency by identifying patterns, refining tooling, enhancing CI pipelines, and streamlining processes. 
  • Actively lead and contribute to squad discussions, offering your expertise and insights to help solve challenges and work towards solutions.
  • Collaborate with domain-specific engineering squads to deliver key platform features, ensuring alignment with the engineering and business strategy.
  • Alongside the technology leadership team, build and refine Attest’s backend software delivery processes, ensuring they are scalable and efficient.
  • Lead chapter meetings with positivity and purpose, providing dedicated 1:1 time with engineers to listen, understand, and offer constructive feedback.
  • Take ownership of the definition of both public and private APIs, taking a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

Our tech stack includes Java (which you will be building in primarily), Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS and whilst we don’t need specific knowledge of these technologies, you should be familiar enough with similar tech to help get up to speed quickly..

What’s in it for you… 

  • The opportunity to guide and mentor a number of highly talented engineers
  • Play a key role in setting the direction of backend engineering as we continue to evolve our product positioning globally.
  • Be part of an innovative cross-collaborative team where your ideas and solutions are valued and implemented.
  • An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed.

Amazing benefits…

  • Work from anywhere up to 80 days a year 
  • 25 days holiday per year plus additional festive days
  • £40 monthly wellbeing budget 
  • £20 monthly L&D budget, plus access to a larger budget for qualifications and courses
  • Private Medical Insurance 
  • 2 days per-month to do charity or community work 
  • Enhanced parental leave (18 weeks paid leave for Primary carer) 
  • Up to 12 weeks paid leave for premature births and neonatal care 
  • Paid leave for IVF and fertility treatment and pregnancy loss
  • Share options 

We’d love to hear from you, if…

You align with and actively embody our core values, which are more than just words—they are the foundation of everything we do. Our values drive our decisions, shape our culture, and define who we are as a team. Learn more about them on our careers page. Specifically this means:

  • You love Discovering Insights and use data and feedback to solve problems,whether leading or from the back seat 
  • You are output focussed, Generating Outcomes by demonstrating the ability to lead and implement engineering efficiencies in a Principle, Staff,  Architect role or an Engineering Manager looking to go back into a high level IC role, coming at problems with ‘First Principles’ thinking’.
  • You Include Intentionally, embracing and valuing all perspectives to find the best process, solution or product for a wide variety of people with differing opinions, experiences and ideas.
  • You want to Win Together, leading by example and mentoring and coaching other members of the team to be successful.
  • You are a confident, clear communicator - sharing the what, the why and the how of what you are thinking and doing in all directions.
  • You have a passion for optimisation and efficiency. You're not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value.
  • You Embrace Change and help bring others along with you.

This role might not be for you if … 

  • You are concerned with structure, every opinion at Attest is just as loud and valid.
  • You don't want to get your hands dirty in squad-owned production code, this isn't just the fun architecture bits.
  • You like to maintain the status quo and are adverse to change.
  • You tend to risk losing valuable insights by focusing on eliminating the flaws 

Salary

£100,000 - £125,000 GBP

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion 

‘Include Intentionally’ is one of our values. We actively embrace and value all perspectives and strive towards making our workplace diverse and our hiring processes fair, equitable and free from bias.

To encourage a diverse range of candidates, we encourage individuals who meet some, but not all criteria, to still apply as you may be the right person for the role! 

We want to ensure that everyone gets the opportunity to shine. If you are selected for an interview, please let us know if there is anything we can do to support you by contacting us at talent@askattest.com

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