United Kingdom Job Openings

Deriv

Principal Engineer (Hybrid)

Reading

FULL TIME

August 31, 2024

Job Information

Job Opening ID

ZR_1349_JOB

Industry

Back-end Development

City

Reading

Country

United Kingdom

Job Description

Principal Engineers at Deriv are recognised experts in the multiple technology domains relevant to Deriv. They represent the senior technical leadership within the Deriv technical department. Principal Engineers are responsible for driving the development of high-impact projects, assisting management and other senior technical leaders in creating strategic roadmaps, and driving priorities and system development to meet company business objectives.

Deriv’s technical department develops a wide range of trading products and manages 200+ internal and external servers and applications. As Deriv’s operations and transaction volumes grow in size, developing products and services requires enhanced scalability, performance, security, and disaster recovery. It needs a high-performance system architecture capable of scaling a further 10X, plus highly available and secure systems. Join us to materialise these ambitions with your advanced knowledge and deep engineering expertise.

Your challenges:

Play a central role in technical contributions affecting Deriv's growth.
Develop future-proof software solutions, solve technical problems of the highest complexity, lead architectural design, and perform system-level integration in alignment with our exponential growth.
Devise roadmaps and strategies to establish the technical direction for key components and services; work hands-on to integrate them into our systems.
Create strong coding standards, maintain technical design documents, and develop operational concepts and interfaces.
Solve scaling and performance problems with innovative architectural changes.
Assist executives in making informed decisions regarding company goals by providing engineering expertise.

Requirements

University degree in software engineering, computer science, or a related field
15+ years of experience
Strong experience in cloud technologies, including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
Deep experience with databases such as Postgre SQL and My SQL
Strong software development skills
Experience with front-end technologies and frameworks

Excellent spoken and written English communication skills

What’s good to have

Work experience in the fintech industry
Experience with multi-site collaboration over different time zones

Benefits

Competitive salary
Annual performance bonus
Health benefits including private medical insurance, Death in Service benefit and Health Screening, Dental and Vision allowance
Ample training and educational resources
Quarterly appraisal and well-defined career/learning paths
A chance to work with top talent from across the globe (70+ nationalities)
Great Place to Work and IIP Platinum certified
Hybrid working environment (onsite+remote)
Ample team-building and bonding activities
Competitive Annual Leave
Maternity & Paternity Leave
Well-stocked kitchen when you need to fuel innovation and collaboration

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