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Sophos

Senior Software Engineer 2 (UK)

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5 days ago
London, United Kingdom
Senior / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and implementation of backend features and services.
  • Champion AI-assisted development and research best practices.
  • Author and review technical designs and provide trade-off analyses.
  • Develop clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
  • Improve service reliability through SLOs and participate in on-call duties.
  • Collaborate with Product, Security, SRE, and Support teams.
  • Contribute to architecture within team scope.
  • Drive security-by-design practices.
  • Mentor engineers through code reviews and design walkthroughs.
  • Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and developer experience.
  • Contribute to sprint ceremonies and deliver on commitments.

Requirements

  • Strong experience building backend services and APIs in a modern language (TypeScript/Node.js preferred).
  • Solid understanding of API design and integration patterns.
  • Proficiency with relational databases, including schema design and query optimization.
  • Experience with containers and cloud-native development (Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Hands-on with automated testing across the testing pyramid.
  • Practical knowledge of secure coding and secrets management.
  • Ability to investigate and resolve production issues methodically.
  • Clear communication and mentoring skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science/software engineering or equivalent experience.

Benefits

  • Remote-first working model with some roles requiring a hybrid approach.
  • Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks.
  • Annual charity initiatives and volunteer days.
  • Global employee sustainability initiatives.
  • Global fitness and trivia competitions.
  • Global wellbeing days and monthly wellbeing webinars.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAWSAzureDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsPostgreSQLTerraformTypeScript

Categories

AI & MLBackendDevOpsSecurityTesting