Senior Software Engineer in Manchester

At INRIX, our mission is to help the world avoid global gridlock by empowering cities, drivers, and businesses around the world to keep vehicles moving smarter, safer, and more efficiently. We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our customers and building products which facilitate efficiency and safety in how the world travels. We do data at a massive scale. Do you want to be at the heart of turning raw location-based data into insights and action? Our team is at the core of many of the products that INRIX delivers.

We’re looking for senior software engineers that can play a big role in both real-time and historical speed and mobility data calculation systems. One who relishes the challenges of computing data at scale, takes pride in building robust systems, and loves to learn and keep up with the latest cloud computing technology.

What you’ll do:

• Work as part of a small team building and testing scalable, reliable, and efficient data driven systems.
• Be more than a team player, but a leader. Seeing the big picture, be able to make judgment calls and decisions for the company’s sake and with a customer lens and empathy.
• Keep up with technology and love to make things better because that’s the right thing to do, not because you’re told.
• Use your Design Experience to do more than just code what’s given to you. We want people who can create thoughtful, efficient, and durable designs that operate at large scale, run reliably and efficiently.
• Work on high profile systems that make a substantial impact to the company's bottom line.
• Work with partner teams to regularly deploy and monitor these systems to ensure optimum up time with minimal impact to customers.
• Think creatively to make things efficient, deal with the variabilities of the real world, and solve customer problems.

About you:

• Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience in production level software development, architecture, and design.
• Solid coding skills, including proficiency in Java and at least a basic understanding of Python.
• Experience with Spark, Hadoop, Kafka, MapReduce or other big data technologies experience highly desirable.
• Solid DB skills (relational, document and key-value) and SQL-like languages would be a plus.
• Experience developing high scale, REST based APIs that are performant for internal and external data delivery.
• Experience with manipulating geo-spatial data via technologies like PostGIS would be desirable.
• Experience with one or more of the following would also be beneficial: Scala, AWS services like Kinesis, RDS, Elasticache, S3, Athena, Data pipeline, Glue, Lambda, EMR, Spark, EC2, ECS, CloudWatch or Elastic Beanstalk.
• Familiarity with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Terraform similar tools would also be a plus.
• Experience with software development best practices: CI/CD, containerization, cloud technologies and microservices.
• A team player – we highly regard collaboration but we also want to see leadership among our senior people.
• Bachelor or advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, or related discipline.

Why INRIX?

• Help solve complex real-world problems with big data.
• Hybrid, yet flexible, working environment.
• The people and passion: Meet and work with people that are smart, helpful, and love what they’re doing.
• Plethora of snacks, drinks, lunches, and opportunities for folks to get to know other people in the company with opportunity to travel to our offices across the globe.
• Have the opportunity to make a big impact to your team, the company, and our customers.

Equality of opportunity is at the heart of our recruitment process. You’ll be judged on your suitability for the job and nothing else.