Software Engineer Data Architecture

Job Description

Our mission is to make life easier for the lifeblood of economies globally; small and medium-sized businesses. Codat is a universal API for *consented *business financial data, powering the next generation of products and services for this historicallyunderserved market.We have offices in London and New York, and a San Francisco office will be opening soon. We are a privately held company, and have recently closed our Series B funding and are funded by Index Ventures, Tiger Global, American Express, PayPaland a line-up of world-class angel investors.We live by our values of being *united *as a single team, building a product that is *useful *to our clients and their customers alike, with a focus and urgency that makes us *unstoppable*.***What you will be doing:*Oursystem is entirely hosted on Microsofts Azure cloud platform, and is built on modern .NET Core, utilising the latest .NET features. Our system is service-based, and leverages Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, and SQL Server to ingest and process large amountsof data reliably and efficiently.Our engineers operate in small, focused, multidisciplinary, and highly autonomous teams of around 4 to 6 people. Our teams tend to include:* A hands-on Lead Engineer who spends time focusing on product alignment, technicalalignment, and people, as well as coding* A QA Engineer who represents quality throughout the team and encourages critical thinking as well as supporting automation* Software Engineers who help with business analysis, writing tests and code, and operatingthe components that the team ownsAll our engineers have end-to-end responsibility. Theyre involved from early on in the product design process all the way through to monitoring and operation. With this responsibility comes trust. Our engineers are empoweredto use the best tool for the job. We encourage engineers to be innovative, always thinking about the best ways to give value to our clients.Our teams are always finding ways to make themselves more agile, and most teams use a Scrumban style of work, stand-ups,retrospectives, planning, and refining. Teams move rapidly, releasing at least once a day. We practise continuous integration and testing, and sometimes continuous delivery. Testing is very important to our process, and we strive for high levels of unit andend-to-end test coverage.***What were up to right now:*Our teams are currently focusing on:* Building high coverage for Codats API across third-party software platforms. This includes building data formats into our financial data standard* Reliably and quicklyprocessing huge amounts of financial data into our data cache and query engine* Building additional products on top of our core API to unlock the power of our clients data, through the movement of data between sources, or data visualisation* Best in classmonitoring and operations tools to allow both ourselves and our clients to find, and fix, data issues early***What excites us:** We use a mix of technologies at Codat, but most are services supplied by Azure and leveraged using C#, we like engineers that liketo keep up to date with C# and have an interest in design patterns.* Our apps work extensively with the .NET web stack and knowledge of ASP.NET and REST APIs is really helpful.* Clear and concise communicators; we expect Engineers to collaborate with otherteam members, including developers, quality assurance engineers and product stakeholders outside of Engineering.* We have a passion for testing and working with frameworks like XUnit (or similar) to do behaviour and data driven unit tests.* We really likeengineers that are self-motivated, have a logical and systematic approach to problems solving, but understand things work best when we work as a team, are approachable, open minded, and patient.* A lot of the problems we solve at Codat are about standardisingdata from various sources, this is a different set of problems to many software businesses, and we really like engineers who enjoy working with data and puzzling out problems that may not be obviously solved. A good head for financial systems helps, but isntnecessary.If you are excited about applying for this role but arent certain you meet 100% of the criteria, wed still love to hear from you-* Share Options scheme, empowering everyone to share in our success* 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays) and officeclosure over Christmas* In person optional policy- working in the office is entirely your choice * Team lunches, Company Socials, office snacks and roof top barbecues* Professionally led Yoga classes, office football team and Cycle to Work Scheme* Work alongsidesome of the UKs best Software Engineering talent* Cutting-edge and always evolving tech stack* Fun, fast paced, directly see your impact and full autonomy* Personal development and professional growth focused culture* Modern, airy and dog-friendly officeswith private roof terrace* Chat with Talent Acquisition* Initial 30 minute phone interview* Final stage 2 hour interview involving a paired programming task, and a technical chat.NET, C#, ASP.NET.NET, C#