Senior Software Engineer

About Us

Over the last ten years, SaaS has changed the way we work - for the better. Slack instead of email. Miro instead of sticky notes. Airtable instead of Excel. SaaS is helping companies move so much faster, but it’s also introducing a new surface area of risk they’ve never seen before. The risk of leaking sensitive data. As a result, companies are faced with answering the difficult question of how to manage compounding security risks as they grow without introducing more red tape that slows their team down.

At Metomic, we help companies protect sensitive data in SaaS applications like Slack, Google Drive and Zendesk.

Our technology connects to SaaS applications, detects the most critical sensitive data risks, and put automated policies in place to ensure these risks don’t happen again in the future. This liberates tech companies to make full use of their favourite SaaS apps whilst Metomic takes care of all the security risks behind the scenes.

After launching our product in April 2021, we now count some of the world’s most innovative companies as customers, such as Revolut, Octopus Energy and Crypto.com. In 2023 we raised a $20m Series A round led by Evolution Equity and backed by other investors such Connect (investors in CityMapper, Typeform, Marvel), LocalGlobe (Improbable, Figma, Zego) and RFC (Hopin, Clubhouse, On Deck, etc), and Resonance.vc.

Job Overview

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. Some of the areas you may be working on: our sensitive data and classification engine, building systems to allow us to process billions of messages a day, data ingest pipelines, sensitive data remediation system, risk identification and ranking engines and alerting systems.

Our backend services are in Typescript (with GraphQL + Postgres), and frontend in React/TypeScript. We use AWS ECS Fargate via Github actions and Terraform to deploy to production multiple times a day.

Requirements

Must Have

We’re looking for well-rounded engineers with a broad range of experiences:

• Product-minded and pragmatic engineers - Front of mind for you is thinking through what the best solution is for the problem the customer is facing. You’ll be given a lot of autonomy to explore solutions from what we build, how it’s designed and what technologies we use.
• Problem-solvers - We’re facing a lot of previously uncharted territory and with that a set of new and unseen challenges. You’re not one to shy away from tackling these sorts of problems. You’ll think through not just how to solve a problem, but what caused the problem in the first place and how we can make improvements to prevent similar problems in the future.
• One eye on now, one eye on what’s next - Our engineers have a passion for bringing to life distributed systems and scalable and robust architectures. You’ll have a huge role in coming up with how the system will evolve from an architecture and engineering standpoint.

Nice to Have

The following skills would be a big plus:

• Experience with TypeScript (Node.js) in backend service development.
• Experience with Kafka or other distributed messaging systems.
• Experience with AWS and Terraform, and deploying/managing services in a cloud environment.
• Familiarity with Temporal for orchestrating complex workflows.
• Familiarity with monitoring systems at scale with a tool like DataDog.
• Hands-on experience operating data-intensive applications at scale.

If you’re passionate about building systems that handle massive amounts of data, love solving complex problems, and want to shape the future of our architecture, we’d love to hear from you!

Benefits

• Remote Working - We’re remote-first and also have an office in Shoreditch, London that you can work from at anytime.
• Our success is your success, so you’ll receive equity in Metomic (under our tax-efficient EMI options scheme).
• Private Health Insurance - Enrolled from Day 1 through Vitality, for when life happens
• Holiday Leave - 25 days holiday leave, excluding bank holidays
• Learning Budget - £750 per year to invest in your growth
• Unforgettable Events - Annual team trip away. We have been to Barcelona in 2023, and previous years have been a castle near Marseille, a penthouse in Lisbon, and a farm in South Downs, UK

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