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Based in our London Bond Street Office and reporting directly to the Director of Engineering and Product you will have oversight and responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the backend systems and APIs required to support our mobile and web applications.
You will also work closely with the CogX product team to identify, scope and implement the necessary features on our product roadmap.
At CogX we operate a “hybrid working philosophy” in the belief that connecting as colleagues accelerates thought, actions and delivery. With offices in Vauxhall, London you will be comfortable driving collaboration days in office as required to support high level projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing technical leadership for the backend engineering team
- Mentoring other members of the team
- Setting standards for code quality and establishing best practices
- Writing and maintaining backend code that drives our mobile and web clients
- Defining architecture and choosing tools
- Working closely with the Product, Design and Data Science teams
- Working closely with the frontend team to integrate our APIs into our client apps
- Working as an effective member within our agile/scrum based environment
- Participating in code reviews
- Writing automated tests
- Creating and enhancing the test infrastructure for our application
- Integrating with third party analytics tools and other third party APIs
- Integrating with CI/CD tools such as Codeship, Github and others
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
The preferred candidate MUST have
- Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
- Experience in engineering leadership roles
- Confidence taking ownership of the end-to-end software development process
- Ability to work independently within the framework of objective-based management, rather than task-based.
- Strong experience of backend development using Python
- Strong experience building modern web and mobile app backend using RESTful APIs
- Ability to design and implement system architectures involving data pipelines, APIs, and multiple data stores.
- Strong knowledge of different types of data store, including SQL databases, key-value stores, and graph databases
- Experience integrating data science models into system architectures.
- Experience building APIs for both web and mobile apps
The preferred candidate SHOULD have
- Familiarity with Heroku
- Familiarity with AWS
- Familiarity with Django
About CogX
CogX is a purpose driven company focused on building the world’s biggest platform and community for leadership, creativity and innovation.. A social media platform and festival for global change makers. This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic sector leading Operations team and a community of the most inclusive and forward-thinking leaders, CEOs, tech entrepreneurs, scientists, policy makers, artists, and activists in the world.
At CogX we address the most critical challenges and opportunities of our time, driving and galvanising the partnerships needed to make a difference to our mission statement “How do we get the next 10 years right?”. Our community & alumni partners have an array of global organisations and include Google, Sony, Vice, Goldman Sachs, BBC, Barclays, ThoughtWorks, BT, NHS, Tesla, Warner Music Group, PWC and Microsoft. We are backed by the UK’s most successful investors.
There are 2 parts to the business. The revolutionary CogX knowledge app and platform, which enables you to knowledge share and learn from the experts that matter directly to you. Whilst the CogX Festival which in 2023 is hosting its 7th edition.
The CogX Festival - The world's largest Festival of leadership, creativity and innovation - its where everything is possible. 2023 will see the biggest and most ambitious event yet, taking place across the O2 and Canary Wharf estates. 120,000 people, 20 stages, 2000 speakers, 1000 expo stands. Covering 20 topics from AI/DeepTech, Global Leadership, Future of Energy, Startup Innovation/IPO to Health and the Global Economy.
CogX is a community bringing together global leaders, technology industry, economists and the public at scale to explore the biggest transformation opportunities of our time and address the question, “How do we get the next 10 years right?”.
Co-founded by trailblazing serial tech entrepreneur Charlie Muirhead (Orchestream, Nexagent & Rightster) and Tabitha Goldstaub, MBE - Chair of the UK Government's AI Council and Creator of How To Talk To Robots; CogX aims to seek top talent from all industries and diverse backgrounds to join our team. People who succeed at CogX have something in common—they are tenacious, energetic and they strive to change the world and create positive impact.
The company is backed by many of the UK’s most successful Angel Investors and has a pipeline of over 100 enterprise clients for its unique “always on” knowledge sharing and thought leadership platform.
