Backend Engineer, Bark
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Marketplace for Service Professionals
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Marketplace for Service Professionals
201-500 employees
Open for applications
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To revolutionise and become the market leading, go-to online marketplace for professional services.
Role
Who you are
- Expertise and extensive experience using Python (or similar Back End language) in a production environment
- Defining, implementing and testing APIs
- Integrations with 3rd party APIs
- Production MySQL experience; strong SQL skills
- Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS
- Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting APIs to be used by other developers both internally and externally
- Strong organisational skills
- Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
- You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem-solving, and gets a kick out of making systems work efficiently at an increasingly large scale
Desirable
- Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar Queue management system) and its purpose
- Experience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar
- Interest in machine learning topics such as logistic regression, NLP and others
What the job involves
- We are looking for Mid-level Back End Engineer to join our growing team
- You’ll become a core part of our growing, dynamic team responsible for scaling our existing platform from a monolith into a service-oriented architecture and building new services for our expanding product offering
- You’ll get the opportunity to utilise various technologies to pave the future of Bark, enhancing how we solve complex online problems in cutting-edge areas such as search, classification and core marketplace services
- You’ll be involved in every aspect of the process: idea generation, business analysis, technical and architectural design through to implementation
- Work with development teams and product managers to conceptualise and implement software solutions
- Build elegant and performant APIs
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase
- Mentor other engineers to support their growth
- Design and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a second
- Work with our Data Insights and Data Science teams to transform the TBs of data we have, into insights to revolutionise the product
Application process
- Screening Call with Talent Partner (30 mins)
- 1st Stage - Hiring Manager Stage (30/45 mins)
- 2nd Stage - Technical Task (60 mins)
- 3rd Stage - Values interview (45/60 mins)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Bark is the UK's largest & fastest growing services marketplace, connecting consumers and businesses with the right professional for their project in thousands of unique categories. A customer can simply post a service requirement (they call this a Bark!) and their technology goes out and finds relevant professionals instantly.
Professionals who are interested in quoting for the work can post their responses to the customer. The customer can then speak to the seller, view their profile and read Bark reviews before choosing the best pro for their job.
Bark now boasts over 8 million users booking pros stretching from gardeners and cleaners to counsellors and accountants across 11 countries. The company's active expansion into new markets has been slow but sure. With this, coupled with the shift in behaviour towards acquiring professional services, Bark seems to be on a path of definite growth for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
39% female employees
44% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Bark offers a blank canvas for directing your focus, allowing you to shape the future in impactful ways. Whether it's building scalable processes,..."
Company benefits
- Enhanced Wellhub membership for all employees with access to state-of-the-art gyms, fitness classes and mental health courses
- Daily breakfast, fruit and drinks on us. We also have monthly lunch pop-ups, from sushi to burritos
- Innovative culture: If you enjoy being at the forefront of the industry, rapidly changing environments and working alongside inspiring and creative individuals, this is the place for you
- Equity: Share options in a rapidly growing company whose founders have a proven track record and are private equity-backed
- Regular wellness weeks, including: Private Harley Street GP appointments (in office)🏥 Therapy sessions📝 Massages💆🏽♀️ Wellbeing workshops🎨 Financial advice💰
- L&D Budget: Your development is key to us. Annual £1,000 budget to spend on your development
- Private medical insurance, through Bupa Healthcare
Company values
- Take it on Together: Diverse thinking creates innovative solutions
- Elevate with Excellence: We set the bar high, and we go above it
- Find a Way: The is power in exploration
- Think Bold: We live by impact-led decision making
Company HQ
Paddington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Gilles Despas
(CEO)Current CEO of Bark.com.
Diversity & Inclusion at Bark
Paul Anderson (Senior Talent Partner)
- Our approach to diversity at Bark is simple: it’s about embracing everyone. We have over 77 nationalities operating across 11 countries!
- Fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive is our ongoing priority at Bark. We are committed to hiring, retaining and developing a globally diverse workforce that is passionate about making sure our customers succeed.
- We pride ourselves on everyone feeling comfortable bringing their authentic self to work. You'll be treated with respect and support throughout the interview process and once you join Bark 😊
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