Senior Software Engineer

🕒 May 30

🏢🏡 London – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Oritain

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2008

🔬 Science

🤝 B2B

📋 Compliance

💰 $57M Series C - Oritain on 2023-07

Science • B2B • Compliance

Oritain is a global leader in forensic origin verification, using cutting-edge science, advanced technology, and specialized laboratory services to independently verify the geographic and supply-chain origin of products and raw materials. Its methods are highly tamper-resistant, court-admissible, and used by suppliers, manufacturers, brands, retailers, consumers, and regulators to protect brand integrity, support compliance, and increase transparency and trust across supply chains. Driven by purpose since its founding, Oritain focuses on scientific techniques and systems for tracing critical commodities and enabling more ethical, resilient, and accountable supply chains.

📋 Description

• Design, build and maintain scalable services and RESTful/GraphQL APIs using Python with Django or FastAPI • Write clean, well-tested, production-grade code focusing on reliability and performance • Design and implement data models working with PostgreSQL and cloud-native data services • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automated testing, linting and deployment as standard • Build modern, responsive user interfaces using React with TypeScript • Collaborate closely with Product and Design to translate requirements and wireframes into functional, accessible UI components • Ensure frontend performance, accessibility and cross-browser compatibility • Contribute to infrastructure decisions and service architecture within Azure environment • Support observability, monitoring and alerting for production services • Participate in incident response and root cause analysis when issues arise • Take end-to-end ownership of features from technical design through to delivery and iteration • Participate actively in code reviews and architectural discussions • Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers • Partner with Data and Science teams to understand how application services integrate with the broader data platform

🎯 Requirements

• Significant professional experience (typically five or more years) in software engineering with a strong track record of delivering production systems • Backend proficiency in Python with Django or FastAPI • Strong frontend experience with React and TypeScript including component architecture, state management and modern tooling • Solid understanding of relational databases, PostgreSQL preferred, covering schema design, query optimisation and migrations • Experience with cloud platforms, ideally Microsoft Azure • Familiarity with containerisation using Docker and CI/CD practices • Pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering • Strong communication skills for effective collaboration in a cross-functional team • Experience with data engineering concepts such as ETL/ELT pipelines or data platforms like Databricks and Azure Data Factory would be an advantage • Familiarity with event-driven architectures or message queues • Experience with scientific, geospatial or time-series data or exposure to infrastructure as code using Terraform would be welcome • Comfort with AI-assisted development tools and an interest in integrating AI capabilities into products would also be welcome

🏖️ Benefits

• Hybrid working (minimum 3 days per week in our Farringdon office) • 35 days paid leave, inclusive of public holidays • Birthday off • Enhanced parental leave • Life insurance and critical illness cover • Choice of private medical insurance or annual health check • Employee Assistance Programme • Pension • Breakfast, snacks, Friday lunch and barista coffee in the office • Learning portal with over 100,000 assets for professional development