Junior Software Engineer

Location: Basingstoke, England, United Kingdom

Department: Engineering

Workplace: hybrid

Description

InfoSum is the world’s leading data collaboration platform, providing solutions to the world’s largest enterprises to allow collaboration across data sources and deliver richer customer experiences that prioritize consumer privacy. Our vision is to unlock data’s limitless potential, by enabling the world’s data to be connected but never shared. As a people-first organization, we can offer you the personal and professional flexibility needed to get the job done, grow with us, and help challenge the status quo. If you want to work with a business that encourages collaboration, and champions the idea that the sum is greater than its parts, then we want to hear from you.

Job Overview

You’ll be joining Our Platform Sustaining & Enhancement team, the team that keeps the platform healthy while rapidly adding targeted, high-impact enhancements.

• Third-line investigations. Every morning the team reviews new issues that have already passed first and second line triage. You’ll dig into logs, traces and code to explain behaviour, patch bugs or raise backlog stories when deeper product work is needed. Often these investigations will result in improving observability or stability of the platform.
• High-impact feature work. Between investigations we deliver focused enhancements and platform improvements that don’t slot neatly into long-term road-maps. Because our team’s workload is unpredictable, delivery dates are flexible and scoped by the team.
• Platform observability & performance. Your team members continually raise the bar on monitoring, metrics and efficiency.

Joining as our newest engineer, you’ll pair with seasoned Go / TypeScript / Python devs, owning real tasks from week one. Expect a dynamic mix of bug hunting, green field coding and customer interaction all in a cloud native solution.

Requirements

Core Responsibilities

• Software debugging: Investigate production issues across Go micro-services, TypeScript React UIs and Python data pipelines. Use logs, tracing and AI powered tools to investigate and patch quickly.
• Feature development: Build and test code (mainly Go & TypeScript) for platform enhancements. Write unit / integration tests, participate in peer reviews and pair-programming sessions.
• Documentation & knowledge-sharing: Keep our Runbooks and ADRs up-to-date; share learnings via demos.

Additional company wide requirements 

• Understand and comply with InfoSum’s security and privacy policies, and be attentive to information security at all times in the performance of duties for InfoSum.

Must-haves

• 1-3 years’ professional software engineering experience.
• Working knowledge of at least one of Go or Python and willingness to learn the other languages including typescript.
• Solid grasp of Git, REST and basic cloud/Linux fundamentals.
• Curiosity and the confidence to ask questions in a fast-moving team.

Nice-to-haves

• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker or Terraform.
• Experience with observability stacks (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Familiarity with Postgres.
• Interest in data-privacy, AdTech/MarTech or large-scale data processing.
• Familiarity with Kafka, gRPC or Apache Spark.

Benefits

As well as working as part of an amazing, engaging and collaborative team, we offer our staff a wide range of benefits to motivate them to be the best they can be! Here’s an overview of everything we offer right now!

You will receive:

• A competitive salary based on your experience and ability to perform in role
• 25 days annual leave (excluding bank holidays)
• 8% pension contribution
• Private health care
• Fantastic corporate discounts and mental wellbeing support, including a top of line EAP.
• Salary sacrifice schemes

We have fantastic offices in Basingstoke and London complete with a fully stocked fridge / snacks and catered lunches 2 times a week.

We also reward our teams with monthly socials, half day Fridays during the summer months of July and August, 3 extra days off during the Christmas holidays and a culture built on recognition, collaboration and success.