Senior Product/Backend Software Engineering Position

Summary

• Salary band £100k-120k + equity
• Hybrid working policy: Mandatory minimum three days a week in our Waterloo office
• Experience level: At least five years in commercial software engineering

🚀 About Orchestra

Orchestra is an AI-native data pipelining platform building the future of data orchestration and observability. We have built a declarative framework allowing data engineers to explicitly declare how their data pipelines behave. Think CI/CD but for data teams!

Backed by VCs from San Francisco, New York and London with angels from across the data space and beyond.

👷 Engineering at Orchestra

• We care deeply about our users—their pain points and experience
• We're a small team of generalists who embrace new challenges regularly
• We're united by our mission, focused execution, and speed
• We deploy to production multiple times a day

🛠️ Tech Stack

• Backend: Python (FastAPI) + Typescript (express)
• Frontend: React + Typescript
• Infrastructure: AWS (serverless!), terraform
• Containerisation: Docker
• Database: PostgreSQL + DynamoDB
• CI/CD: GitHub actions + Blacksmith runners

👩‍💻 What You'll Do

• Build exceptional product and scale the core experience
• Implement and maintain features across the full stack (with focus on the backend)
• Own systems end-to-end
• Collaborate closely with customers
• Drive the full development lifecycle
• Contribute to shaping our culture and strategy

🙋‍♂️ About you

• 5+ years of experience building and shipping full-stack products.
• Strong programming skills in Python
• Concrete understanding of system design and scalable backend systems.
• Fast, resourceful, and opinionated - you know when to ship and when to conduct an experiment.
• Demonstrated experience working in a cloud environment
• Bonus: Knowledge in React + TypeScript or a willingness to learn and contribute to frontend experiences.

Benefits‍

• Competitive salary + equity
• Bi-annual offsite
• Regular team dinners + socials
• Choice of laptop
• Access to latest and greatest AI tooling

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