Back-End Software Engineer

CONSUMER EDGE
Consumer Edge is a data and AI-driven company that equips global organizations with real-time, transaction-based insights. Our engineers work across domains—Data, AI, and application development—to build a platform that translates complex data into clear business intelligence.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER BACKEND, CLIENT PLATFORM TEAM
You’ll be joining Consumer Edge’s Client Platform Team — a distributed cross-disciplinary team located across Europe and the US.
Our mission is to build web-based products that empower our clients and transform how they make decisions. You’ll be joining a group of Software Engineers, Product Managers and UX Designers, working closely with stakeholders to use data to answer real-world business questions.
We believe in building a culture of autonomy, where enabling team members to make decisions independently leads to greater motivation, innovation and productivity.
TECHNOLOGIES
We work in a microservices, DevOps environment where teams own their code and infrastructure in production. We favour type-safe and functional programming styles — clean, composable code is something we care deeply about. Some of the technologies we use across Consumer Edge include Google Cloud Platform and BigQuery.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Working on a distributed multi-discipline team in an Agile environment to build a best-in-class customer-facing platform that provides better insights into our data
Participate in architecture and design discussions.
Building maintainable and scalable services, performant APIs and infrastructure to serve data to our client-facing web platform
Optimising system design for maximum performance and scalability
Building cross-functional relationships within the team to enable meaningful impact
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE TEAM
4+ years of experience working as a Backend Engineer in a similar environment
Strong proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript, with an appreciation for type safety and functional programming principles
Excellent interpersonal skills for cross-team collaboration, with great communication ability to share knowledge and get your message across
Experience building REST services
Good understanding of SQL
Experience working with a cloud service such as AWS or GCP
NICE TO HAVE
Experience or interest in functional programming languages such as Scala.
Experience building GraphQL services
Familiarity with functional libraries and patterns in TypeScript (e.g. fp-ts, Effect)
Experience of building/maintaining CI/CD pipelines
Experience building Data pipelines
Some exposure to infrastructure as code practices
Some frontend experience using Vue or React
 
WHAT TO EXPECT
A strong tech community with training and support to develop your skills
Ability to make an immediate impact on our products
BENEFITS & PERKS
Distributed environment and flexible working arrangements
Generous leave options
In-country benefits related to health insurance and pension / 401K
Consumer Edge is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.