Location: central Bristol (Spectrum, Bond Street) 15 mins walk from each of Bristol Temple Meads station, St Nicholas food market and Cabot Circus shopping centre.
Salary:£60,000 – £65,000+ we’re keeping an open mind, plus benefits
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
About the Role
YellowDog (yellowdog.ai) is hiring a senior back-end software engineer to help develop its cloud native workload management and intelligent provisioning platform for hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
This is about delivering sophisticated new product features for release to our state-of-the-art software service that helps customers to schedule, deploy and manage their cloud compute optimally.
We can help you get to grips with our tech, the domain and its ecosystems. Your work will have a positive resource-saving impact for our customers, currently across the media & entertainment, life sciences, aerospace and financial services sectors.
We’re a small and expanding software development team building, from the ground up, a unique orchestration and service mesh solution. It’s a microservice-based architecture, where you can contribute substantial new code and ideas around any of; applications, distributed services, integration, systems, analytics and the dashboard.
Java is our main language to do this, along with some Python for analytics, and we can allocate projects that build upon your strengths.
It’s a flat team structure and we employ an iterative, lightweight design process where everyone on the team gets to make input. We’re Agile and manage our work using a gentle Kanban process, regular short stand-ups and we encourage a lightweight, productive approach to development with a highly automated release process that keeps people in the code and releasing as much as possible.
Joining YellowDog, you can enjoy the right mix of autonomy and ability to shape and influence your role.
Example Projects
Building microservices that provide global compute coordination, resource scheduling, data management, adaptive data transfer, analytics, billing, access control etc.
Common abstraction to different cloud providers, optimised to best practice for each cloud provider.
Integration with a rich ecosystem of tools and adjacent systems.
Developing intelligent scheduling and resource management based on heuristics and machine learning.
Requirements
We’re looking for:
- Someone ready to help create sophisticated distributed applications
- Ability to independently lead the implementation of large, complex software changes
- A collaborative approach to design
- Strong familiarity with Java
- Appreciation for clean code, good documentation and knowledge sharing
- Adaptability, receptive to change and pragmatism
- Understanding of – or strong appetite to learn – the inner workings of cloud applications, infrastructure, serverless etc.
Someone considering mid or senior level back-end jobs such as: Java Software Engineer | Java Developer | Back End Software Engineer | Back End Developer | Systems Developer | Cloud Infrastructure Developer etc.
Our current technology mix (we’ll help you get up to speed!): Java | Spring Boot | Postgres | MongoDB | Kafka | Zookeeper | Redis | Artemis | Python | JavaScript | Git | IntelliJ | CircleCI
What We Offer
- Flexible and family-friendly working practices – tell us what you need
- We are a hybrid environment with some working every day in our lovely central Bristol office space and others with flexible working arrangements who are fully remote.
- 25 days of leave + your birthday after your first year | pension contribution | support for travel to conferences and delivering presentations | central office location with showers and secure bicycle parking.
Hiring Process
The hiring process will consist of 3 stages:
- A 30-minute online screener with 2 members of YellowDog. We will use this time to ask you about your experience, your interest in and understanding of working at YellowDog and a small number of technical questions.
- An offline technical assessment in which you will build a small application. The exercise is open-ended, but you will be told what criteria you will be assessed against in advance. Candidates typically take approximately 8 hours to complete this (spread over a flexible period).
- A 2-hour in-person interview with an interview panel at YellowDog. We will use this time to explore your understanding of the assessment, discuss your competencies more broadly and ensure you will fit in well with your team.
How to Apply
If you are interested in the position, please apply with your CV and a cover letter explaining why you want to work for YellowDog and how your personality and experience could augment our team.
Please send this to careers@yellowdog.ai with the subject line “Senior Software Engineer”, or complete the form below.
About us
YellowDog enables companies across the globe to power their innovation with the most scalable cloud native scheduler. Businesses can accelerate complex data processes with ease by provisioning compute across multiple regions, availability domains and machine shapes. The YellowDog Platform automates the selection of the Best Source of Compute for every workload, delivering new levels of prediction and efficiency in cost and performance optimisation. There are multiple uses of our technology, across multiple industries – from Financial Services, to Life Sciences, to Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations, to CGI and more. We look forward to exploring the kind of role we can build around you at YellowDog. https://yellowdog.ai/about/
Timing: You may join us right away or as early as possible.
Please note: Applicants must be eligible for employment in the UK without requiring employer sponsorship – we are unable able to consider applicants who don’t already hold the necessary work permit for employment in the UK.