Staff Software Engineer

About Rated 
🌐  rated.network/home 🌐

Rated is on a mission to keep the world’s machines aligned and accountable.

Rated Labs, the developer behind Rated, was founded in 2022 by Elias Simos and Aris Koliopoulos. In the two years since founding we have built the Rated Explorer into a category defining and well loved product, among Node Operators in Web3.

In reality, the work has only just begun!

The Role

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer with extensive experience in building distributed systems, data pipelines, APIs and managing delivery of complex projects. The role’s core activity centre will be in building out a series of platform level components that will power the evolution of Rated’s product suite.

💼 Responsibilities 
  • Lead the design and implementation of platform-level components that will drive the evolution of Rated’s product suite.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to define project scope, milestones, and deliverables.
  • Lead and participate in architectural decisions, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Be hands-on with coding, code reviews, and architectural guidance as needed.
  • Drive engineering best practices, from CI/CD pipelines to code quality and testing strategies.
  • Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and innovation within the team.

🛠️ The Skills

  • Expert in SQL and Python
  • Experience with a Python web framework such as FastAPI or Django
  • Experience with Postgres and Elasticsearch
  • Experience in building real-time data pipelines using Bytewax, Flink or similar
  • Experience with AWS
  • Deep understanding of software development lifecycles, from code reviews to CI/CD and production monitoring
👲 The Person
  • Mission driven and intellectually curious
  • Extremely technical with great problem solving abilities
  • At least 5 years of experience as a Backend Developer or similar role
  • At least 2 years of experience in a Team Lead role
  • Thrives in early stage environments
  • Is based anywhere between CET-1 and CET+1, but ideally in London

👥 The Team

  • We’re a highly technical 14 person team (and growing!), working in a hybrid/remote set-up, with a home base in London, UK

🎁 The Offer

  • Salary: $150,000 to $200,000
  • Equity: 0.1% to 0.5%
  • Flexible PTO
  • New MacBook
  • Budget for conferences and learning
  • Hybrid/remote work set-up with a homebase in London
  • We are also offering visa sponsorship for candidates who wish to relocate to the UK.

Please make sure to include your public Github and other relevant tidbits about you that will help with your application!


The pay range for this role is:

150,000 - 200,000 USD per year (Rated HQ)

Engineering

London, United Kingdom

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