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Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Salary

Commensurate with Experience

Experience

5 + years

Closing Date

2019-04-26 15:00:00

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Platform Engineer

  • What is Slice?

    Slice is the leading technology and marketing platform made exclusively for local pizzerias, making it super easy to order delicious, authentic local pizza anywhere, anytime. We serve the $45 billion U.S. pizzeria market in two ways: by providing a pizza-centric mobile and web ordering experience for consumers, and by empowering local restaurants with the technology, tools, and marketing to grow their business, while helping them compete with Big Pizza.

    Slice was born in 2011 and has quietly bootstrapped its way to building a network of more than 10,000 pizzerias nationwide. Ilir Sela, our founder and CEO, started the company as a passion project to help his friends and family in the pizza business, but he quickly saw a massive opportunity to champion these small businesses by bringing their bites to the masses. Ilir has since built an amazing team of operators, marketers, technologists, and investors — all dedicated to making it easier for people to enjoy their favorite local pizza.

    The Ideal Candidate

    You are self motivated with the ability to make smart decisions and ask questions when necessary. You will have an understanding of, and interest in, highly available distributed systems. You always design for failure. You are keen to learn more about new technologies.

    Things you may work on if you work with us

    • Expanding on and building new tooling that will help developers move at a high velocity.
    • Use your experience in system design and software engineering skills to develop and deploy software that will help drive improvements towards availability, performance, efficiency, and security.
    • Collaborate with engineering teams to discover common pain points, develop solutions, and promote best practices.

    Things you may have already worked on:

    • Highly available web services.
    • A migration from a monolithic application into individual lightweight services.
    • Performance tests, load tests, smoke tests.
    • Working in a polyglot environment focusing on the best tool for the job.
    • Rewriting something in your favourite language, because why not?

    Essential Criteria

    • 5+ years professional experience.
    • Comfortable with a high level language like Ruby, Python or PHP.
    • Experience with distributed systems.
    • Experience with API design.
    • Solid grasp on testing principles.
    • General database and SQL knowledge.
    • Comfortable with the command line and Unix.
    • Fluent verbal and written English skills

     

    Desirable Criteria

    • A background in refactoring monolithic systems.
    • Familiarity with messaging systems (RabbitMQ, SQS, ZeroMQ, Kafka).
    • Experience with Container Orchestration (Mesos, Kubernetes) and Docker
    • Passion for technology
    • Love for Pizza

    Interested?

    We operate like a startup, so being self-motivated, curious, and flexible is a good start. You prefer to come up with your own solutions to problems but are not afraid to ask for help. You enjoy making suggestions for how to improve our product and business, no matter the department. You’re the kind of person who roots for the underdog. And lastly, this job will probably be a lot easier if you have a soulmate-level love for authentic pizza.

    Why Slice?

    Join a community of engineers who combine creativity, curious minds and a commitment to excellence with the desire and commitment to grow and build on the engineering skill base and community here in NI. Missing a few of the criteria but have worked in a pizza shop? Why not get in touch!

    Benefits

    • Industry Leading Salary
    • Share Options
    • Strong Pension contribution
    • Health and Dental Care
    • Income and Death insurance
    • £750 a year to use for any self learning/education
    • Health and wellbeing benefits
    • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Schemes
    • Childcare Vouchers
    • Flexible working
    • Generous time off allowance and policies
    • Free pizza and healthy office snacks
    • Conference budget
    • Substantial gym membership discount

    How to apply?

    A CV gives us a good idea of your background, we are interested in your latest work and projects. Education is great to see, but it's not overly important to us. If you have them, be sure to include links to any personal projects, blogs, contributions, or anything you want to add to your application.

    My Pizza Slice Ltd is an equal opportunities employer

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