Senior Back-End Cloud Engineer at Simprints
About the company:
Who we are
Simprints is a nonprofit technology company based at the University of Cambridge. Fueled by the belief that technology can and should be a force for good, we have embarked on a mission to transform the effectiveness of global development programs. Our journey is supported by some of the worldās most forward-thinking organizations, including the Gates Foundation, USAID, and Gavi.
Our mission
At Simprints, we're dedicated to improving the lives of the world's poorest and most vulnerable individuals.
Our technology, including contactless biometrics, is designed to accurately verify identities in the field, ensuring that aid, healthcare, and financial services reach those who need them most. Weāre not just developing technology; weāre striving to make a tangible impact on poverty, support maternal health, combat neglected tropical diseases, and improve vaccine distribution and healthcare outcomes.
Working at Simprints
We cultivate a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning underpinned by a deep commitment to ethical principles and privacy. Our diverse team, drawn from over 50 countries, is united by a shared goal of delivering meaningful change. Working here means being part of an agile, passionate team dedicated to making a difference in millions of lives.
Team Benefits
- We embrace a 4-day work week, ensuring our team enjoys a healthy work-life balance while making a meaningful impact.
- Our remote work policy is inclusive, allowing team members from various locations to contribute effectively.
Description of the position:
Job located in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Only considering candidates who are eligible to work in the UK ā ļø
Simprints is a nonprofit tech company with a mission to radically increase transparency and effectiveness in global development. We build ethical, inclusive digital ID powered by biometrics to verify that health, aid, and services truly reach people. Simprints partners with organizations like Gavi to boost immunization rates in developing countries, Ministries of Health like Ghana on pandemic response, and NGOs like BRAC to deliver maternal healthcare. Studies have shown Simprints increases impact through real-time, precision data, for example increasing maternal health visits by 38% in Bangladesh or accurate HIV tracing by 62% in Malawi. Today weāve worked in over 17 countries helping deliver health, aid, and finance to >2.5M people. Our goal is to transform the way the world fights poverty, ensuring that every vaccine, every dollar, and every public good reaches the people who need them most.
About the Role
We are looking for a cloud-native back-end engineer to join our growing tech team, working on either our core Simprints ID platform or specific projects. You will also be able to contribute to our journey as we begin to open-source our products to help drive market adoption of biometrics. In addition, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining Simprints applications and their integrations, both with our internal back-end services and external data collection applications.
You will work on an agile, collaborative team with a commitment to clean code and robust design, along with a strong culture of continuous learning and improvement. You will help the project management team assess feature feasibility and create a plan of action. If building technology for global health sounds exciting, we want to meet you!
Location
This is a remote job; we are currently only able to take forward applicants based in the UK, Ghana, Ethiopia, Poland, Bulgaria or Romania. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this role.
Salary
UK Grade 6: Ā£55,000 - Ā£70,000 with a cost-of-living adjustment for non-UK residents
Your impact
At Simprints, we want everyone to feel ownership of the tasks they are working on, starting from your first day. Within the first month, weāll help you set your environment up, and you will be contributing improvements to our products in no time. By your third month, you will be comfortable building new functionality and will have a good understanding of how our products are used. In six months, you will lead with a high degree of autonomy the design and development for our roadmap and projects.
Role Responsibilities
- Design technical solutions to help Simprints scale to support projects all over the world
- Team with other Cloud engineers to write robust code that is easy to test and maintain, and runs reliably in challenging settings
- Build APIs that expose our data and events for other areas of Simprints to derive insights and measure the impact of our projects
- Work on cross-functional projects by collaborating with mobile engineers, data analysts and external stakeholders
- Mentor junior engineers by guiding them through code reviews and making design decisions
- Ensure that the products we build are both performant and secure
- Create specification documents that outline designed solutions and a plan of action to achieve them
- Suggest and implement improvements in the way we build our products
- A passionate problem solver who can help us find a way to achieve our mission
- Deep understanding of GCP with at least 5 years of experience building, integrating, testing, and supporting cloud hosted applications
- A bit of an SQL/BigQuery wizard to assist with navigating large datasets to troubleshoot and monitor application performance
- Well versed in the best practices of secure application development
- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle including application architecture design
- Experience working within a team with a focus on code quality, where testing, code reviews, and continuous integration are the norm
- Working knowledge of Go (our code base is written in it)
- Experience with āserverlessā GCP services such as Cloud Run, Firestore, Cloud Pub/Sub and BigQuery
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, and especially Terraform
5 Reasons to Join Simprints
Life is short. We believe work should be inspirational, meaningful and fun. At Simprints, weāre taking on global developmentās biggest challenges, powered by an amazing culture and incredible people. Work with us, and you will grow faster, learn more, and take on great responsibilities with the potential to make lasting change.
- Genuine Impact. Work directly with our partners and users to deliver technology that has the potential to impact millions of lives across the globe. At Simprints, youāll be part of a team that is passionate about driving real change.
- An incredible, diverse team. Our work is at the intersection of technology and global development, and weāve managed to build an amazing team drawn from all over the world. But donāt take our word for itāweāre an externally recognized Great Place to Work, part of the Flexa Top 100 Most Flexible Companies and a 2023 Best Workplace for Women.
- Mutual Flex. We champion a work culture where autonomy and trust are paramount, steering clear of mere face-time metrics. Whether it's managing life's essentials like healthcare appointments or adapting work hours to match your peak productivity times, we've got you covered. In return, we count on your reciprocal flexibility when mission-critical moments arise, like stepping up for a crucial client discussion on a Friday or tackling unexpected technical glitches beyond regular hours.
- Ultimate work-life balance. a. We offer a 4-day workweek, meaning everybody has the option to have Fridays off. b. We also offer unlimited paid annual leave which allows you to prioritize your well-being. As long as you're driving results and fostering teamwork, we encourage you to strike that perfect balance between your professional and personal life. Our commitment to this model's success is solidified through semi-annual productivity assessments with our board, ensuring that our high standards of performance are consistently met.
- Professional development. We promote continual learning and put our money where our mouth is with development plans and access to global experts through the GLG network. We also have a generous professional development budget for each colleague ā āEduprintsā. Is there some training youād like or maybe you could benefit from professional coaching? Simply provide a business case that shares your aspirations and the resources you need, and we'll do our best to support you. We care about both your development in Simprints and your holistic long-term career goals. Simprints Alumni have gone on to work for Google, USAID, Gavi the vaccine alliance, Save the Children, and other top players.
Simprints is an equal-opportunity employer. We pride ourselves in our firm commitment to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in our workplace. We aim to attract, hire, grow, and retain the most qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, ability, religion, nationality, age, sexuality, and other differences. We encourage interested and suitable candidates who are part of underrepresented groups to apply for this position.
We are recruiting on a rolling basis for this role. With that in mind, we advise candidates to apply as soon as possible as we will be reviewing applicants on a first come, first served basis. This vacancy will be closed once a suitable candidate is identified.
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