Build Engineer

Who we are

Born in 2014, Yoti is a digital identity and biometric technology company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. The Yoti app was designed with privacy at its core, giving people a secure way to prove their identity and share third-party credentials with organisations and other people.

Today, we have over ten million app downloads around the world. We’ve expanded our offering to a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age verification and estimation, e-signing, AI anti-spoofing technologies and we continue to think of innovative new offerings. 

From day one, we’ve been working to fix an outdated identity system. This is not a journey we make on our own but with policy advisors, think tanks, researchers, academics, humanitarian bodies, our users and everyday people. We are committed to solving identity problems through grassroots research and social purpose initiatives.

Purpose of the Role

Work as a member of the DevOps team to bridge the gap between the development teams and the operations teams by fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Role Dimensions

Report to the DevOps Team Lead

About the team 

At Yoti we run a thriving DevOps community, with lots of exchange between developers and operations staff. We operate and maintain a CI/CD infrastructure using Concourse as its main driver. The DevOps journey starts with best practice guidelines to assist our Developers with their projects. The journey of our product has many stops and ends with deploying microservices in Kubernetes. Our goal is to automate absolutely everything and give our Devs and Ops colleagues every possible tooling they need to run/debug our environments via tools like prometheus, grafana and kibana.

Requirements

Principal Responsibilities: 

• Help to maintain and develop our CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain tools and systems written in a variety of scripting and programming languages.
• Build tools to automate routine tasks that improve other engineers’ productivity.
• Implement monitoring and alerting for new and existing tools.
• Investigate and resolve operational problems, which may involve bugs/performance issues in the application layer or problems at the operating system level.
• Ensure our applications run reliably and are scalable.
• Communicate effectively with your colleagues and work as part of a team on projects.
  

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience: 

• Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Bonus points for Concourse experience.
• Experience of Kubernetes and docker - this is central to what we do.
• Strong knowledge of command line tools and bash scripting.

• Strong Linux experience, particularly Debian based systems.

• Ability to work with all parts of the business and to work directly with other teams, addressing any challenges and supporting business goals.
• Ability to quickly pick up and work on new requirements.

• A good understanding of PKI.
• Has a security mindset and a desire to improve the environment around themself.
• Fair knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools.
• Basic knowledge of database theory and operation, in particular Postgres.
• Basic knowledge or interest in configuration management tools like SaltStack and terraform.
• Basic knowledge in connectivity, DNS and routing on linux.
• A willingness to challenge the status quo and work collaboratively to change it.
• Committed to honesty, transparency and excellence in all aspects of your work.
• Some knowledge of programming in Go (Golang), Python, Java, Ruby, C or C++ or more than one other current language.

Benefits

What’s in it for you? 

• Flexible working 
• Performance based discretionary annual bonus
• Share Options
• Internal Share Market 
• Private Medical Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension 
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
• 5 fully paid Selfie Days - for your own personal development, volunteering, charity events, etc
• Team and company activities, Social clubs. 
• Continuous learning opportunities (Annual Training budgets, conferences etc) 

This is a great opportunity to join a company that is leading the way for innovative and responsible identity verification. We’re looking for people who can adapt to a fast-paced environment, as well as champion our brand and what we stand for. We value a positive attitude and people who have a collaborative, creative and transparent approach to solving problems.

We believe in equal opportunities

It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences. 

Pre-employment checks

If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:

• We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
• We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
• If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.
• Please contact peopleteam@Yoti.com to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.

Talent Pool

If we consider that you might be suitable for other roles in the future, we will keep your details so we can contact you about these other roles. If you do not want us to keep your details for this purpose, please e-mail peopleteam@yoti.com or let us know at any stage of the recruitment process. For more information please read our Applicant Privacy Notice.