Qubit | Backend Engineer | London | Onsite | Full Time |
www.qubit.com
Qubit’s mission is to drive customer loyalty and lifetime value through personalization. In 2018, the company was named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Personalization Engines.
Qubit’s platform engineering team works on the core Qubit platform, which processes billions of events a day and serves over 400 million personalisations per month to some of the biggest retail, travel and egaming companies on the Internet. The team is responsible for backend software engineering at Qubit, building and scaling large complex systems with near-real time requirements.
We are looking for polyglot engineers that are self motivated and keen to explore new ways of doing things. We work in small sub-teams primarily in Java, Go, Python and Scala but have also been known to code in JavaScript when needed; we’re motivated by customer impact and the desire to build systems that solve real customer problems.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a low-latency, high-throughput platform that is responsible for capturing, validating, enriching, storing and serving billions of data points a day - Tackle scaling challenges for platform services to handle Qubit’s dramatic growth - Extend the platform to support productionisation of Qubit’s machine learning applications - Work closely with product management to design the next generation of platform features, such as highly concurrent authentication and authorisation systems capable of validating millions of client validations per second
Competencies:
- A degree in Computer Science/Mathematics/Engineering or a related field or equivalent industry experience - Experience in backend software engineering using statically typed programming languages (e.g. Go, Java, Scala) - Experience in building web services and APIs
For more info please contact careers AT qubit DOT com
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