Software Engineer

We are honu.ai, a remote-first team of 10 creating a novel technology that empowers business owners with superhuman decision making capabilities. Our platform transforms the digital ecosystem into a frictionless smart connective tissue, creating the foundations for the future of the commerce. Our investors have backed TransferWise, Tide, Coinbase, CityMapper, Cazoo, Nested, Habito, Cleo, King, and Snyk, and we are recipients of a Smart Grant from Innovate UK fund. Our highly experienced senior team has built cutting edge innovations across multiple sectors, including robotics and neuroscience.

You Will

• Have a hugely visible impact, building towards MVP and beyond, as a member of a small, tight-knit team, including working closely with the founder
• Collaborate with the team to define the strategy and vision for how we will build effectively and be successful
• Work closely with other engineers across the company to build delightful features that span various parts of the system
• Develop RESTful APIs using FastAPI and Pydantic
• Work with SQL and NoSQL databases, as well as ORM tools like SQLAlchemy and SQLModel
• Write clean, maintainable and efficient code
• Ensure code quality through TDD and observability practices
• Containerise applications using Docker
• Participate in Agile XP methodologies like pair programming and code reviews
• Integrate OAuth for security and user authentication
• Work with Python and Poetry for package management
• Utilise GitHub for version control and team collaboration
• Deploy applications to Google Cloud Platform using Terraform
• Occasionally work with React and TypeScript for frontend development
• Monitoring and supporting production, staging, research, and demo environments
• Ensure our platforms are reliable, scalable, secure and extensible
• Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes

Requirements

About You

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 2+ years of experience with Python and service development
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies like TDD and XP
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Strong understanding of RESTful API development
• Comfortable working with containerization tools like Docker
• Ability to work in a team environment and participate in code reviews
• Strong communication skills for collaboration and problem-solving
• You believe in easy-to-maintain code and identify with modern concepts such as clean coding, automated testing and continuous deployment.
• You know start-up life, ideally within a SAAS business.
• You’ve shipped high-quality products from start to finish and are equally as comfortable building from scratch as you are improving an existing product.
• You understand how a product funnels & retrieves data and are comfortable working closely with data scientists and data engineers to ensure optimal efficiency.
• You will be comfortable with Remote/Async ways of working.
• You’re considerate, humble, and a strong believer in teamwork.
• You're comfortably organised amongst the chaos.
• You're comfortable taking ownership, accountability and responsibility.
• Based in the UK or Europe.
• You're available to meet in London for a 3-day team working session every 4-6 weeks.

Nice to haves

• Airbyte
• Experience with 3rd-party API integrations
• DevOps experience ( incl. Terraform )
• React and Typescript experience
• Fintech experience is a big plus, eCommerce experience is nice to have, but not a requirement.

Tech Stack

Our initial stack is Python-centric with some ancillary GoLang services for the backend, React / Typescript on the front end, and we are running on GCP. We have a pragmatic, non-dogmatic approach and will refine the tech stack, finding the right tools for the job, as the product evolves. Scientific computing will be mostly implemented in Python, for now.

Our Process

• Technical Screening with our CTO (30 - 45min)
• Pair programming Technical Assessment with our Senior Software Engineer (45min - 1hr)
• Final chat with Product Manager and Founder (1hr)

Benefits

We are a young business with a huge amount of evolution to come. Alongside a salary, we are able to offer:

• Competitive stock options package
• Remote-first working policy
• Regular company offsites

We are growing fast and will be sure to respect your time and expectations each step of the way. We embrace diversity in all forms and are dedicated to building an inclusive, equitable environment for all people to do their best work with us.

We’re an equal-opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status. If there are any suitable adjustments that can be made to ensure a smooth interview process, please do let us know.