Senior Back End Developer

This is a remote position.

Aveni is an award-winning FinTech company that specialises in Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions for Financial Services. Our team of world-leading scientists and engineers have developed an NLP platform that extracts context from customer conversations. This powers a range of transformative product features, including an AI-powered advice assistant, Consumer Duty management, automated compliance monitoring, the identification of vulnerable customers, enhanced consumer insights, and performance management of call centre agents and advisers.
Purpose of the role

To aid our continued growth, we are looking for a back end focussed Software Engineer with the ability to work across the full stack when needed. You will have significant involvement in the continual evolution of our products, working collaboratively with the team to improve and develop our technology.

The role will focus on the development of our Aveni Detect back-end services, helping to rebuild our processing pipelines, improving our CICD processes, creating and managing AWS infrastructure running the SaaS platform and CICD, building integrations with 3rd party systems, solving authentication challenges, improving our automated testing and improving our platform observability.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with peers in our remote cross functional team of Engineers, Product Owner, UX Designers and NLP Engineers
  
• Design and deliver well tested, robust platform services and pipelines
  
• Contribute to the continual improvement of the scalability, security and observability of our platform to support our growing customer base
  
• Participate in the improvement of the developer experience
  
• Extend our 3rd party system integrations and marketplace offerings
  
• Lead technical collaboration and integration with prospective clients
  
• Embrace team agile practices and contribute to the continual improvement of our processes and engineering culture
  

Requirements

• Experience using TypeScript to build robust and secure serverless services and APIs
  
• Proven experience working with AWS cloud-native services and monitoring tools
  
• Customer-focused mindset to understand the business objectives and translate these to forward thinking features that will delight our users
  
• Automation first approach to engineering, testing and delivery with exposure to DevOps principles. We build it, ship it and own it
  
• Experience following Agile working practices and contributing to a high performing engineering culture
  
• Passion for collaboration, skill sharing and mentoring to raise the skills in the team
  
• Ideally experience working in a multi-tenant SaaS start-up environment
  
• Interest in NLP and Machine learning
  
• As we are a small team, willingness to work across the stack when needed with React experience would be beneficial
  

Our Tech stack:

• Typescript and React
  
• AWS Architecture (Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, DynamoDB, EventBridge, SQS, SNS, S3, Cloudwatch)
  
• ElasticSearch and Postgres
  
• Automated Testing using Jest and Vitest
  
• Infrastructure as code using Terraform, Serverless Framework and CDK
  

Benefits

This is a great opportunity to work at the cutting edge of Natural Language Processing and software development alongside leading talent in the field. Alongside a competitive salary, we also offer:

• 34 days holiday
  
• Your birthday off plus birthday hamper
  
• Pension scheme
  
• Top spec MacBook and work equipment
  
• Flexible and hybrid working options (split you working time between home and the office)
  
• On-going career development and training
  
• Freebies and discounts (Free coffee, movie downloads, discounts on high street stores, supermarkets and restaurants)
  
• Emotional wellbeing (Employee assistance programme provides access to 24/7 employee counselling and emotional support)
  
• Physical health (Access to fitness portal including HIIT workout, boxing, yoga as well as gym discounts)