Senior Backend Engineer

Who We Are:

At Omaze, we give our community in the UK and Germany the chance to win luxury homes and other life-changing prizes — all while raising money for the causes they love.

Thanks to our Omaze Community, we’ve raised over £100 million for UK charities in just five years. That’s millions helping organisations like Age UK, the RSPCA, British Heart Foundation and Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity deliver life-saving work.

And the best part? We’re only just getting started. Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.

• Growth:
  Omaze is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.

• Impact:
  Join a team of world changers dedicated to creating a ripple effect of good.

• Pioneering:
  Be part of something no one has done before.

• Culture:
  We work hard, grow together, and spread joy along the way.

As a Senior Backend Engineer, you are experienced and excited about building innovative next‑generation social good platforms which empower nonprofits to do their world‑changing work. You are someone who cares about code quality and craft but also has an intrinsic motivation to deliver value to the customer and knows how to balance both. Ideally, you are an engineer who can demonstrate knowledge of various technologies and how those should be applied in multiple scenarios when designing features or systems.

The job requires good communication and organisational skills. You should be able to translate ideas and requirements into deliverable work units. You can collaborate with technical and non‑technical audiences and always strive to improve yourself and those around you. You believe everyone has something to contribute, value diversity and inclusion, and enjoy mentoring others to help them grow.

In this role, you “own” the technical quality, execution, and delivery of user stories.

• Bring your engineering experience to collaborate with a close‑knit engineering team building social good platforms.

• Responsible for the writing and testing of code and infrastructure that produces the application.

• Work closely with members of your team to ensure design and implementation meet product needs.

• Help architect, design, and implement reusable, well‑tested software components.

• Proactively review the code of others, providing feedback on design and implementation choices.

• Collaborate with other engineers and subject matter experts early and often throughout development to ensure sound architecture design decisions, provide a delightful customer experience, and raise money for charities that impact the world.

• Follow code standards and best practices for their given platform.

• Work with Product Owners and UX Designers to ensure complete and proper implementation.

• Ensure the performance, security, integrity and resilience of the application.

• Experience with our tech stack:
  Typescript, Node.js, Dynamo
  
  DB, AWS Lambda, AWS API Gateway.

• Experience building and designing event driven applications

• Experience delivering major features and systems from concept to launch.

• Experience with unit and integration testing.

• Effective communicator in teams of technical and non‑technical individuals (product, marketing, subject matter experts, etc.).

• Engage engineers to support a culture of collaboration and inclusion through mentorship, respectful code review, and dedication to quality.

• You are excited to share and learn from your teammates about crafting fantastic experiences.

• You are passionate about voicing your opinions and can be humble in receiving feedback.

• You have a track record of trying and learning new things and are unafraid to learn through failure.

Generous stock options scheme

• Private medical and dental insurance

• 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%

• A personal learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships

• Personal equipment budget to work from home

• Enhanced family leave policies

• Life assurance of 4x your salary

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Location:

Holborn, London

⭐ Office Policy: 3 days in person, 2 days at home each week

Our hiring process may vary between roles, particularly for technical roles where we may incorporate a technical skills/based interview, but as standard you’ll have:

• Screening call with one of our in‑house Talent Leads

• First stage interview with the Hiring Manager

• On‑site second stage interview with key stakeholders - this could be other managers, peers or Senior team members.

On average, our hiring process takes around 1-2 weeks after your initial screening call.