Staff Engineer

Job Description

About Attest

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London and New York, Attest is a consumer research SaaS platform for the world’s biggest and fastest growing brands. Attest’s easy-to-use, self-serve dashboard is coupled with on-demand research expertise, empowering anyone to quickly conduct high-quality research and be continuously tapped into the consumer.

Some of the notable brands leveraging continuous insights to put the consumer’s voice at the center of their business with Attest include Unilever, Santander, Walgreens/Boots, Klarna, Brew Dr. Kombucha, Trustpilot, JCDecaux among many others. To date, Attest has raised $90 million in venture capital with backing from investors such as Kismet, Schroders, and NEA. To learn more about Attest, visit www.askattest.com.

The mission for this role:

The Staff Engineer role at Attest puts you at the heart of architectural decision-making, requiring impeccable technical skills, clear and concise communication, and deep product and user understanding - this role is hands-on, leading from the front to build a better rich experience for both our users and engineers.

We are seeking an experienced backend software engineer who may have held titles such as Staff or Principal Engineer, or Architect. As one of two staff engineers at Attest, alongside our frontend staff engineer, you will support our backend engineering function from decision-making to implementation. You will first and foremost help engineers walk the fine line between quality and rapid delivery and you will help bridge the gap of understanding value vs complexity.

We don’t require you to know any specific technologies but are familiar enough with enough comparable technologies to get up to speed quickly. Some of the tech we use is: Java, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS.

Your focus will be to …

• Create, drive and get hands on involved in delivering the Attest backend strategy.
• Improve engineering efficiency by looking at patterns, tooling, CI and processes
• Aid rapid delivery by joining in on planning sessions with product and engineering
• Maintaining contextual awareness of backend across the Attest estate
• Coach other engineers along their career journeys
• Deliver core platform features alongside domain-specific engineering squads
• Own the definition of our public and private APIs
• In conjunction with Technology leadership build and refine Attest’s backend software delivery processes

We’d love to hear from you if you…

• Have worked as a Staff or Principal Engineer or Architect.
• Are happy to question the status quo and find solutions to move forward in a better direction
• Would like the autonomy to find the best solutions that deliver value to engineers and customers
• Want to rapidly deliver valuable software both internally and externally
• Prefer simplicity over complexity in software systems
• Are passionate about mentoring gifted engineers

Pay & Benefits:

Benefits:.

Our benefits programme is designed with a focus on the wellbeing, engagement and growth of our people.

Please see our list of benefits below:

• EMI share options in the company so that as the business succeeds, so do you!
• Benefits to support your career development and growth, including a career growth and development budget of £20/$20 per month which can be accrued over the year. We’ll even give you £300/ $300 to set up your home office.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, increasing to 26 after 3 years service and 27 after 4 years service. This is in addition to local public holidays and an additional average of 2 days off during the festive season. You can also take one month's fully paid sabbatical after 4 years service.
• We offer benefits that support your physical and mental health. These include enhanced sick pay, a £40/$40 per month wellness allowance to spend on things that matter to your wellbeing which can be spent on a monthly basis or saved up for larger purchases over the year, and access to private and confidential coaching via Sanctus.
• Family-friendly policies from your first day of employment, such as enhanced parental leave with primary careers receiving 18 weeks fully paid leave and secondary careers receiving 4 weeks full pay. We also have a fertility treatment and family support policy which include paid leave for those going through treatment and their partners. Should the worst happen, we have a pregnancy loss policy with paid time off to support you through this time.
• Spend up to 2 paid days per month – we call it 10% time – giving back to your community or supporting your favourite charity.
• To help you save for your retirement, you’ll be auto-enrolled to our group pension plan through Penfold when you join. You can maximise your pension contribution through the salary sacrifice scheme.
• Receive support whenever you need it with our Employee Assistance Programme, Care First, available 24/7.
• Work from anywhere – spend up to 80 days per year working abroad +/-4 hours from London
• An open, inclusive and supportive team where everyone is valued and all ideas and suggestions are welcomed.

In-person and remote working balance ...

We are a collaborative bunch and know the value of solving problems together. We’ve adopted a hybrid working approach, where employees split their time between the office and their home / alternative place of work. Typically Attesters are in the office 2 days per week with the days and times in the office being agreed with the employee and the line manager. This may also vary week to week based on the employee's workload and calendar.

We’re also mindful that flexible working arrangements can make a big difference for a variety of reasons and encourage Attesters to let us know if flexible working will enable the best balance for them.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The world’s best companies mirror the world around them. We are building an Attest that brings together, and actively celebrates, diversity in race, age, physical and mental ability, sexuality, gender identity and perspectives. Every Attester should feel they belong as their complete selves. We make an active choice to acknowledge and remove systematic inequality from our people and talent processes. We don't claim to have this all figured out yet, but it’s a journey we are fully accountable to.

With this in mind, data shows that individuals from minority groups typically only apply if they meet every criteria listed. Based upon this insight, we wanted to take this opportunity to encourage individuals who meet some, but not all criteria to still apply as you may be the right person for the role!

We want you to bring the best of you to the hiring process. Please contact us at talent@askattest.com if you’d like to discuss any adjustments to our process which might help you demonstrate your strengths and capabilities.