OverviewGBG Plc Worcester, England, United KingdomAbout GBG: Enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for genuine people, everywhere. We make it our mission to ensure more genuine people have digital access to opportunities, and businesses have access to more genuine people. Our technology draws on diverse and reliable data to create a single point of truth for identity and address verification. With over 30 years of experience behind us our team and technology are focused on enabling safe and rewarding digital lives for everyone.GBG Location Engineering Teams: At GBG Location, our mission is to help every business in the world reach every customer in the world and we strive to understand location better than the people that live there. Thousands of the world’s biggest brands rely on our location capture and verification services to power their digital commerce and data quality journeys. Our global platform processes tens of millions of transactions a day, ensuring that customers everywhere get a seamless, low latency, accurate experience.RoleThis is an exciting and impactful role that provides the opportunity to heavily influence the technical growth of our team and products. You will bring your passion for technology, experience of developing great software, and constant desire to improve. There are a wide range of opportunities to flex your technical skills, from designing and optimising searching algorithms, spearheading greenfield projects to ensuring existing products run as efficiently and reliably as possible. There is no line management responsibility with this role - you will work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and other Technical Leads to drive technical excellence within our teams and deliver value for our customers.What You Will DoTake ownership of the technical design, delivery, and documentation of our address search products as we scale to support millions of transactions per day. This role has a mix of both hands-on development as well as lead/architecture workRaise the bar for technical standards, performance, reliability, and operational excellenceMentor and coach others to help them be the best they can beCare about agility as much as you care for scalability and availability. Continuous deployment keeps us focused on incremental releasesTake responsibility for platform health and observability, using our own data to understand user behaviour and drive product developmentQualificationsA strong foundation in software engineering principles and deep knowledge of a high-level programming language. Go is used heavily across our products.Experience with distributed cloud systems, containers, and infrastructure as code. We run on Kubernetes across different cloud platformsStrong knowledge of database technologies used with algorithmic searching (e.g. ElasticSearch, SQL Server, MongoDB)Experience designing algorithmic software for scale, performance, and high availabilityExperience as a primary technical leader in a team and collaboration with other teams and stakeholdersA passion for promoting engineering excellence through coaching and guidanceUnderstanding of architectural and design patterns and when to apply themExperience shipping fast, reliable, real-time applications using modern development tools and practicesNice to haveUnderstanding of GitOps and tools such as Argo CDExperience with SQL and data warehousing/pipelining toolsHands-on experience with AI tooling to enhance engineering workflowsUnderstanding of machine learning principles for developing advanced ranking algorithmsExperience transforming legacy codebases and leading greenfield projectsPolyglot programmer who can identify and use the right tool for the jobTo find out moreAs an equal opportunity employer, we are dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered. Please inform your GBG Talent Attraction Partner if you require any reasonable adjustments to the interview process.To chat to the Talent Attraction team and find out more about our benefits and why we\'re a great place to work, drop an email to behired@gbgplc.com and we\'ll be in touch. You can also find out more about careers at GBG and check out our current opportunities at gbgplc.com/careers.Unleash your potential and be part of our mission to power safe and rewarding digital lives.Seniority levelDirectorEmployment typeFull-timeJob functionOtherIndustriesIT Services and IT ConsultingIsExpired: falseReferrals increase your chances of interviewing at GBG Plc by 2xWe are not including any additional job listings in this refined description. #J-18808-Ljbffr