Overview

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Role: Backend Software Engineer
Reports to: VP of Technology
Team: Technology
Location: Holborn, London
Office Policy: 3 days in person, 2 days at home each week
Contract type: Permanent, full time

About Omaze

Omaze is an entertainment company with a social purpose. We offer our customers the chance to win dream homes and support amazing causes. Launched in the US in 2012, Omaze expanded to the UK in 2020, fundraising with British charities. We’ve since raised over £40,000,000 for UK charity partners such as Teenage Cancer Trust, British Heart Foundation, Marie Curie, Alzheimer’s Research UK, the RSPCA and more.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Bring your engineering experience to collaborate with a close-knit engineering team building social good platforms.
• Responsible for writing and testing of code and infrastructure that powers the application.
• Work closely with team members to ensure design and implementation meet product needs.
• Help architect, design, and implement reusable, well-tested software components.
• Proactively review others\' code, providing feedback on design and implementation choices.
• Collaborate with engineers and subject matter experts to ensure sound architecture decisions, a delightful customer experience, and social impact.
• Follow code standards and best practices for the platform.
• Work with Product Owners and UX Designers to ensure complete and proper implementation.
• Ensure the performance, security, integrity and resilience of the application.

About You

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with our tech stack: TypeScript, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway.
• Experience building and designing event-driven applications.
• Experience delivering major features and systems from concept to launch.
• Experience with unit and integration testing.
• Comfortable operating in environments subject to regulatory, compliance, and risk-based security requirements.
• Effective communicator in teams of technical and non-technical individuals (product, marketing, subject matter experts, etc.).
• Mentor engineers to foster collaboration and quality.
• Approaches work with curiosity, openness to feedback, and willingness to learn from failures.

What’s In It For You

• Generous stock options scheme
• 30 days annual leave PLUS Bank Holidays
• Annual office closure between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day
• Private medical and dental insurance
• 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
• £1,200 learning and development budget per year
• Personal equipment budget to work from home
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life assurance of 4x your salary

Our Hiring Process

• Screening call with a Talent Lead
• First stage interview with the Hiring Manager
• On-site second stage interview with key stakeholders
• Final stage interview with an Executive
• Typically takes 2–3 weeks after initial screening; rolling basis for closing the role

For questions, contact talent@omaze.com.