Job Description And Responsibilities
At Featurespace, we strive to be the world’s best software company at protecting our clients and their customers from fraud attacks. We do that with personality, heart and professionalism, cultivating an innovative, fun and positive team atmosphere where everybody can contribute to solving our clients’ problems in new, innovative ways. We are always seeking to be the best at what we do and make our customers smile.
In this role you will help us achieve our goals and deliver success on behalf of our customers by
Developing new features for our real-time platform which underpins our ARIC engine, integrating ARIC into customer deployments and building new modules to plug into our platform.
Responsibilities
- Championing great user experience, accessibility, and performance throughout the UI.
- Ensuring that the UI-server component is reliable, stable, and secure.
- Assisting in creating code patterns, architecture, and design for features to be built in an efficient, repeatable, and maintainable manner.
- Building and maintaining integration points with other components to expose outputs of the engine, and other parts of the system to the UI.
- Working closely with the UI-client team to agree on the API for delivering content/functionality to the users.
- Working/co-ordinating with other engineering teams to expose ARIC functionality through an intuitive user experience.
- Ability to support the development of new features - from specification, through development, QA and into final deployment.
- Have an awareness of how your work fits in with the team’s area of responsibility and goals
- Build defined features, investigating and fixing bugs, without supervision but with occasional support.
- Performing code reviews
- Communicate progress regularly whilst identifying any blocking issues and escalating where required
- Contribute to and work on cross-functional features and bugs
- Provide input into future technology development.
We are operating a hybrid working model, with the expectation being 3 days per week in the Cambridge office.
Qualifications
- Ability to manage and prioritise your own workload
- Modern IDEs, source control and continuous integration systems
- Experience of designing and developing scalable distributed applications
- Knowledge of patterns and their trade-offs in a distributed environment
- Comfortable working with large codebases
- External API integration
- Code profiling and performance tuning
Great to haves:
- Experience of relational and/or NoSQL databases for large datases
- Web services – HTTP API development
- Message queueing systems – RabbitMQ / ActiveMQ / Kafka
- Cloud platforms and automation
