Senior Software Engineer (Web & iPortal)

Senior Software Engineer (Web & iPortal)

About iProov

iProov is the world leader in biometric verification. We are on a mission to make the world a safer place for businesses and consumers and work with fantastic customers across a number of industry sectors – organizations using our technology include the US Department of Homeland Security, the UK Home Office, the NHS, Eurostar, the Australian government, the Singapore government, UBS and many more.

Additionally, iProov is an emerging leader in a new phase of airport biometric technology. As a rapidly growing company specializing in the development and deployment of cutting-edge physical technology solutions, we are committed to delivering high-quality, reliable products and exceptional customer service. We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled Operations Manager to join our team and play a crucial role in ensuring the successful deployment and operation of our solutions within North American airports and beyond.

The Role

Reports to: Head of Web & iPortal Development

Location: WeWork Waterloo, London, SW16 1JH – Hybrid (at least once per week in the office)

Comp: Negotiable (Base) + Company Performance Bonus (10%) + Growth Shares + iProov UK Benefits

iProov\’s Web SDK is pushing the boundaries of what is possible with web technologies today. The Web SDK provides a widely available, usable product that forms part of a system that delivers a number of social benefits to society, from remote onboarding to banks and healthcare to safe authentication for national infrastructure and services.

Our vision is to provide this experience with native-level performance across the broadest range of devices possible.

As with any interactive experience on the web, we know this is a challenging environment in which to deliver an SDK: it needs to fit into our customer\’s app framework and work in a variety of configurations; it\’s a rewarding feeling when we thread the needle through and watch how our releases perform on our dashboards and monitoring systems.

How you can make an impact

• Applying deep technical expertise of emerging technologies to provide insight and technical leadership to promote new ideas.
• Owning the responsibility with the technical lead for planning and execution of complex feature deliveries.
• Providing hands-on technical contribution in a way that embodies our company values – focusing on achieving the remarkable and working as a team.
• Working with our product, science, platform and customer success teams to ensure we\’re delivering the best service and building the best products.
• Fostering the technical team\’s culture of innovation, iteration and inquisitiveness.
• Maintaining a deep understanding of technology and customers trends and opportunities
• Designing quality standards and driving teams to achieve Quality Excellence across iProov products
• Embedding a culture of collaboration, learning and empowerment
• Shaping the engineering culture by implementing best development practices

What we would like to see from you

• Expert knowledge of vanilla JavaScript/TypeScript
• Understanding of WebAssembly
• Deep understanding of web security issues
• Significant hands-on experience with React
• Experience at developing services (RESTful API) including strong authentication (using JWT, 3rd party identity provider, etc), ORM and SQL or NoSQL (document oriented) databases
• Commercial experience designing and building CI/CD, CDNs, RESTful APIs
• Strong experience writing easily testable code (e.g. using dependency injection)
• Experience in cloud technologies (GCP preferred), IaC (e.g. Terraform), containers, container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes), virtualisation and web servers
• Experience building software that scale
• Ability to share knowledge and mentor other team member s

Benefits

• 25 days Annual Leave, plus 8 Bank Holidays (more holiday with service – up to an extra 5 days off per year based on your continuous service)
• Growth Shares allocated after passing probation (6 months of service)
• Salary sacrifice schemes including: Pension, Cycle To Work and Electric Car Scheme
• Nursery Sacrifice Scheme
• Work Overseas Perk – Work globally for up to 2 weeks
• Life Assurance
• SmartHealth – Access to private GP, Psychologist, Nutritionist along with tailored fitness plans for both you and your family
• Award winning L&D platform with personal allocated training budgets
• Enhanced paid family leave
• Pension – 5% employee, 3% employer
• Flexible hybrid working environment
• Free Barista Coffee/Tea, biscuits with fruit in the WeWork office
• Free access to WeWork discounts and free online well-being sessions
• Vitality Health – a range of options available on this below

The Vitality Programme includes a number of reward benefits that all employees have access to as part of the plan, for example:

• Private Health cover including Dental, Optical, and Audiology
• 50% off monthly gym memberships
• Apple watches significantly discounted based member vitality status
• Half price trainers with Runners Need
• Weekly rewards – Free coffee with Café Nero
• Monthly rewards – Free Cinema ticket
• Discounts on travel with Expedia (hotels) and Mr & Mrs Smith with discounts getting greater throughout the year based on a members vitality status
• Amazon prime free months based on activity
• Up to 25% cashback at Waitrose when buying healthy foods
• 75% off stays at Champneys Health Spas
• Allen Carr\’s £299 no smoking programme for free
• Access to Vitality Healthy Mind with 30% off Headspace subscriptions and the ability to earn Vitality points for using Buddhify, Calm and Headspace
• Discounts on Weight Watchers
• 50%-80% off Comprehensive Private Health screenings

Due to the nature of our work, we may require our staff to pass a UK Security Clearance check. As such, any offer would also depend on your ability to adhere to the UK Security check criteria.