Backend Software Engineer (Python/Django)
Worldwide | Aug. 1, 2023
Company: CybSafe
Salary: $74,001 - $82,224
Type: Remote
Employment: Full-time
Description:
Location: Remote First in the UK with access to our London HQ
Salary: Up to £48,000
We are CybSafe. We’re on a mission to revolutionise the way society addresses the human aspect of cyber security 🚀
We’re building the world’s most intelligent behavioural security platform to combat the rise of sophisticated scams, fraud, and malicious hacking.
We’re using the power of science, data and cognitive technology to transform the way we address the human aspect of cyber security, and create a safer and better digital world for everyone.
We’re a tribe of risk-takers, game-changers, free-thinkers and doers. And we’re passionate about the impact we have on our planet through our software and our voices.
Passion. Impact. Transparency. Autonomy. Purpose. Diversity. Belonging.
If these resonate with you, come join us and make a difference.
We believe in being a diverse and inclusive tribe. There are no excuses for anything less. We recruit, employ, train and promote qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected statuses as required by applicable law. We are aiming for “more” than great - we believe that truly diverse teams can do impossible things and we want to do those things.
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Requirements
You will be working in one of our engineering squads tasked with gathering behaviour event data from third party systems, then storing and organising it. This data is key to CybSafe’s ambitions, and enables us to prove the effectiveness of our customers’ cyber security strategy and offer interventions as rapidly as possible to influence behaviour. A typical day in the squad might include the following:
- Building internet applications at scale
- Delivering an experience second to none for the hundreds of thousands of people on our platform, cyber security professionals, and tribe members using internal tools
- Writing code that your colleagues admire for it’s readability and elegance
- Designing and maintaining innovative software applications
- Refining high level designs into lower level, actionable technical specifications
- Supporting our Open Source projects like phishtray: We’re helping research and giving away software, everyone at CybSafe has time to contribute
Our ideal candidate
- Minimum 2-3 years of commercial experience in hands-on coding role
- Strong experience in Python, Django, and Django REST framework
- Thorough understanding of software engineering principles
- Distributed system design, including data intensive applications, and path to production
- Experience in developing and maintaining fast, scalable and well-documented APIs
- Good experience in designing data models for relational databases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Commitment to self growth & care
- Experience working with relational databases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Experience that would be a bonus:
- Developing and maintaining fast, scalable and well-documented APIs
- Data modelling for relational databases
- Exposure to non-relational databases
- Working with data at scale
- Work within cyber security industry, or good understanding of this domain
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
Benefits
Below are just some of the benefits you'll receive as a valued member of the CybSafe Tribe! More here 👀
💷 annual professional development and personal development budget!
🖨️ work-from-home set-up budget, with an annual maintenance allowance
🌍 work-from-anywhere policy with access to our London HQ!
⏰ flexible working arrangements
📈 share options
💲 competitive commission & bonus scheme
🏥 AXA private medical insurance
📆 25 days paid leave + bank holidays + your birthday off
🎄 2 weeks Christmas shutdown with matched leave
🧳 quarterly company offsites
Whether you are 100% remote or hybrid, you will always feel a part of the tribe
Our team is anywhere and everywhere. So, wherever you are in the world, you can fully participate in all of our get-togethers and team meets. We get up to all sorts of social activities, from yoga, to croissant making, we have something for everyone… 
So, what’s next?
We aim for maximum honesty and transparency at CybSafe, so take a look at our application and interview process for this role here!
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