Remote Software Engineer Job in UK GitHub

Who you are

• Experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field OR equivalent experience.
• Experience maintaining production software in any of the languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python

Desirables

• Experience with Git and GitHub
• Experience using Azure technologies
• Experience using front-end frameworks like React.js
• Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs
• Strong written and verbal communication skill
• Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
• Comfortable working transparently in an agile environment and soliciting feedback from peers

What the job involves

• Enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers.
• Design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
• Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations.
• Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
• Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
• Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
• Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.