Role type: Permanent 

Location: London Hybrid

Preferred start date: ASAP

LIFE AT SATALIA

As an organisation, we push the boundaries of data science, optimisation and artificial intelligence to solve the hardest problems in industry.  Satalia is a community of individuals devoted to working on diverse and interesting projects that will challenge, and allow you to develop new skills, lead and contribute to the overall community.

Our ambition is to become a decentralised organisation of the future.  Today this involves developing tools and processes to liberate and automate manual repetitive tasks, with a focus on freedom, transparency and trust.

At the core of our thinking is an approach to wellbeing and inclusivity.  We unpack human behaviour and unpick prejudice to ensure a safe and inviting environment.

THE ROLE

You’ll be solving VRP (Vehicle Routing Problems) and work on our internal product that we develop for retail industry. It keeps evolving with many emerging opportunities and leads.

Main components: optimisation library, routing on road networks using developments from scientific papers, optimisation backend services and orchestration, client facing backends and APIs. Many challenges to explore and opportunities to carry out scientific experiments. Core components concentrate on real time optimisation - another engineering challenge.

You’ll work in a motivated and excited team of software engineers, QA, data scientists, optimisers and product managers. Our team is cross-functional and in different locations, with different functional areas and expertise. You’ll work with agile methods, embracing change and deploying software more than once a day. Team has minimised the processes to the bare minimum, which works well and leaves more time to enjoy coding or discussions. Skill level hierarchy isn’t encouraged among the team, everyone has the same weight in their argument.

Tech stack: Java 8, golang, linux, kubernetes, gcloud, docker. Every few months the team travels abroad for workshops or other events, most often to London, but may also be Australia and other countries in Europe.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Same as any team member, you will share responsibility for the success of the project and team growth. Everyone makes mistakes and so will you, but we believe it is an opportunity to learn and develop. We only expect you to learn without repeating mistakes twice. As an experienced developer, we also expect that you will learn the whole stack incrementally so you can have your own preference and responsibilities for specific components or parts of the infrastructure. The team creates a challenging and empowering environment, which leads to better performance and rapid growth. It is always open for change, as long as overall efficiency increases in the long term, so your ideas and expertise will always be welcomed. Team has no traditional project manager, meaning that all team members have active part in deciding direction/priorities of the product.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

Be polyglot having strong Java 8+ experience Have 3+ years of professional working experience as a software engineer Prefer functional programming style where appropriate Aware of the advantages of relational and document based databases, including CAP theorem Know how queues such as Kafka, SQS, Nsq work and their PROS/CONS Prefer TDD and BDD Knowledge and understanding how integrated systems are deployed and managed Be Unix philosophy advocate, who prefers working on unix based OS Additional knowledge of C, C++, Go or Rust would be welcomed.

WE OFFER

• Benefits - enhanced pension, life assurance, income protection, private healthcare; 
• Remote working - café, bedroom, beach - wherever works;
• Truly flexible working hours - school pick up, volunteering, gym;
• Generous Leave - 27 days oliday plus bank holidays and enhanced family leave;
• Annual bonus - when Satalia does well, we all do well;
• Impactful projects - focus on bringing meaningful social and environmental change;
• People oriented culture - wellbeing is a priority, as is being a nice person;
• Transparent and open culture - you will be heard;
• Development - focus on bringing the best out of each other;

Satalia is home to some of the brightest minds in AI and if you’re looking to join a company who not only values autonomy and freedom, but embraces a culture of inclusion and warmth, we’d love to hear from you.

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