Job Overview
Company logo: https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/D4D0BAQGNdezeN7i-2w/company-logo_400_400/company-logo_400_400/0/1719998675172/the_keyholding_company_logo?e=1746057600&v=beta&t=TkG_73FF3dU1iZ3NjvlAsJf5qpwm9Tjw-Rnw4EA3b0Q We are a digitally transformed, tech-enabled security services company with an innovative digital product. As a company, we are deeply rooted in hiring the best talent and setting the highest industry
standards. With a commitment to rewarding hard work, the team culture is supportive, collaborative, innovative, ambitious, and entrepreneurial. We are seeking to appoint an experienced Software Engineer to be part of a small
yet ambitious Technology team and able thrive in a larger exciting, dynamic, startup-paced environment.
And that’s where you come inYou will be joining an exciting and established team who are always looking to improve
our technologies, processes, and products. You’ll have the ability to leverage cutting edge tools to continuously improve our development process and our existing products. This role is primarily remote, so you will have
the flexibility to work from home. However, our office in Farringdon is always available to you.
Your mission:We’re looking for a passionate and outcome focused individual to support our ambitious growth target by
ensuring the company is leveraging its infrastructure to gain a competitive advantage in a sector rife for disruption.
Our existing platform – Chase – has been a transformative solution in our current market, and we want to support our success by breaking it down into smaller flexible services as we look to grow significantly in existing
and new markets.
Our approach to technology guarantees the opportunity to use the most up to date techniques, tools, and practices. You’ll have the full support of your Squad as well as the wider Development team to
create and maintain the best possible products.
Tech Stack:Programming Languages: Python, Java, Terraform, JavaScript (Node), Typescript, KotlinDatabases: Postgres, SnowflakeInfrastructure: AWS, Docker, KubernetesOther
technologies: Kafka, Github Actions, Jenkins
You’ll be (but not limited to):Creating new services to support our product familyContributing to design and architecture discussionsWriting well designed, testable, metrics-driven
codeWriting automated tests to ensure the product qualityTransforming our existing platform into a new event-driven microservices architectureDiscovering and trialling new tools to introduce to the company to grow the Agile
development environmentUtilizing Cloud technologies to improve our system’s maintainability, availability, and resilience
Candidate Description:We will help you grow the skills you need for this role, but we expect candidates to apply who have:You’re great at leveraging modern development techniques to create back-end solutionsExperience
working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environmentExperience working with cloud-native technologies, specifically with AWS3+ years proven commercial experience as a software developer or a similar software engineering roleExperience
using Python – JavaScript, Java or another modern language is a bonus
Company BenefitsAuto-enrolment into our salary sacrifice pension scheme, where employer NI savings get added back to your pension pot.We provide
an employee assistance programme (EAP). EAP gives our employees access to a 24/7 free, confidential advice service for help with personal and professional problems, which could be affecting your home life or work life, health
and general wellbeing.A voluntary health cash scheme that starts at £1 per week and covers you, yourpartner and kids amongst other freebees.Online access to Workplace skills and Mental health trainings and resources.Personalised
career development plans initiated after 90 days of being a teammember through the My TKC Journey initiative.We have an exercise club called Team Dynamos, which gives you an opportunity to virtually/physically socialise
with colleagues and be inspired by the workouts.Salary sacrifice schemes like Cycle to Work.Regular social events and monthly team days.Enhanced parental leave and (primary caregiver leave – 13 weeks’ paid, secondary
care giver leave – 4 weeks’ allowance).Company sick pay up to 5 days per rolling calendar year.Recruitment referral bonus, £500 reward.Work from home and flexible working policies.
Interview ProcessFirst Interview – 30 minutes (Video call)Technical ChallengeTechnical Interview – 45-60 minutes (Video call)