Full-stack​/Back-End; Senior

Join a dynamic, high growth team in one of the most exciting industries! We’d love to hear from you.

Belfast and London

Depending on experience

Candidate should have the right to work in the UK.

CyNation – The Company

CyNation is a cyber security and risk management start-up with offices in London, Belfast and the Hague. Our vision is to eradicate online fraud and digital crime across the supply chain. We are passionate about making a difference in today and tomorrow’s digital world by creating a safer world online for everyone.

At CyNation we are on a mission to secure a connected world where businesses, the government and citizens can enjoy the prosperity of digital transformation and build a flourishing economy resilient to cyber threats and digital risk.

Fighting online crime and cyber threats requires innovative solutions and actionable intelligence to mitigate digital risks. CyNation’s award‑winning technology helps small and large organisations create order out of the chaos of digital risks data across the supply chain to combat online fraud, cyber threats, and data leaks.

Recognised by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC/LORCA) and Gartner as one of the leading innovative technologies to manage and analyse digital risk across various industries. Cy Desk Ai , our flagship platform, simplifies, automates, and streamlines digital risks management and analytics to reduce organisations’ risk exposure and better manage their risk landscape. Tried and tested across Europe in Financial Services, Retail, Energy and Logistics.

We are building an exciting, talented, and diverse team to help us advance our vision and ambitious growth plans and build a company we all feel proud of for its success and positive impact on society. This is the perfect opportunity to pivot and evolve your career in a fast‑paced, innovative start‑up.

We are looking for an experienced Full-stack or Back‑end Software Engineer who is keen to advance into a more senior role and join our small, international and agile team of talented problem solvers. Take ownership of shaping and developing the underlying innovation of our award‑winning flagship platform for Digital Risks Management and Analytics. Play an essential role in updating and maintaining our development strategy, development life cycle, and product roadmap while supporting and collaborating with the team to deliver a smooth product experience and innovative new features.

As a proficient software engineer and problem solver:

• You are keen on delivering innovative, exciting and reliable data and analytics products and platforms that clients interact with regularly.
• You don’t shy away from a challenge. Take the initiative and walk the extra mile to find the right answer.
• Always keen to learn, grow and share knowledge with colleagues and the industry.

Being a professional software engineer:

• You are proud to deliver high‑quality code and maintain such quality through continuous testing, adopting best practices, reducing code complexity and incorporating critical feedback.
• You believe that collaboration with clear and consistent communication and excellent documentation are key for successful product development.
• You are pragmatic and comfortable making short‑term development decisions without losing sight of the product’s long‑term vision and development roadmap.

Having been in the industry, you have:

• Strong and demonstrable experience developing high‑availability and concurrency analytics products.
• Solid knowledge of Java development frameworks:
  Dropwizard, Spring, and Hibernate.
• Good experience working with APIs and queuing management technology like RabbitMQ and/or Kafka.
• A good understanding and experience developing and designing intuitive and interactive platforms front‑end and analytics tools.

Our development team works through seven project‑based cycles a year. Each cycle consists of three two‑weeks sprints documented and tracked in Atlassian (Jira and Confluence) and Git Lab. New features and functions are continuously deployed throughout a project cycle with the support of Git Lab to automate and streamline the Dev Ops process. Ahead…