Back-End Software Engineer

About this role

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.