Lead Software Engineers
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subject matter expert, a mentor, and an agent of change. You focus on contributing factors rather than single root causes, value code over documentation and documentation over process, and continuously seek ways to reduce toil. You participate in architectural and design discussions, helping shape a scalable, resilient platform that supports both our customers and our organization. You collaborate across teams to drive unified, standards-based decisions that strengthen reliability. You also take part in on-call rotations and provide expertise in observability, change management, and system scalability. As iManage experiences rapid growth in its flagship cloud product, we're looking for engineers who bring a beginner's mindset, embrace complexity, and care deeply about resilience and sustainability in a cloud-native world. This role includes a strong focus on the reliability and evolution of our core data services, including MariaDB, MaxScale, and Elasticsearch. If you write code, think, WHO WE ARE Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to..., Job Role: Field Service Engineer (Heavy Plant) Find out if this opportunity is a good fit by reading all of the information that follows below. Location: Guildford, Surrey Salary: £38,000-£42,000 base salary + paid door to door (OTE £45,000-£50,000+) Hours: Monday-Friday...
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in systems, automate relentlessly, and are passionate about reliability and scale, we want to talk to you. Responsibilities * Eliminating TOIL through automation and software development. * Partnering productively and cross-functionally with application teams and other internal stakeholders. * Creating a modern, cloud-native platform that is resilient, cost effective, and secure by default. * Scaling and tuning high-availability data clusters (MariaDB, MaxScale, Elasticsearch) in a Kubernetes environment. * Maintaining the freshness and utility of our platform services. * Improving the security posture of our products. * Writing / designing automation, orchestration, observability, and disaster readiness into our products. * Coordinating and participating in production support and on-call rotations. * Leading incident management efforts and post-incident retrospectives. * Comfortability writing design documents / postmortems and refactoring application code when needed. * Experience operating or supporting distributed data systems (e.g., relational databases, search clusters, or sharded storage systems). * Developed automation to reduce the operational burden of a product or developed software-as-a-service for internal customers. * Ability to advocate for SRE concepts such as Google's SRE concepts (e.g., I know the differences between an SLO and an SLA and can effectively introduce them to an organization). * Experience working in a public cloud and/or hosted datacenter environment (Azure and AKS strongly preferred). * A passion for working collaboratively with other teams. Qualifications * Comfortability writing design documents / postmortems and refactoring application code when needed. * Experience operating or supporting distributed data systems (e.g., relational databases, search clusters, or sharded storage systems). * Developed automation to reduce the operational burden of a product or developed software-as-a-service for internal customers. * Ability to advocate for SRE concepts such as Google's SRE concepts (e.g., I know the differences between an SLO and an SLA and can effectively introduce them to an organization). * Experience working in a public cloud and/or hosted datacenter environment (Azure and AKS strongly preferred). * A passion for working collaboratively with other teams. Bonus Points If I Have * Hands on experience with MariaDB, MaxScale, or Elasticsearch in production environments. * Familiarity with data store observability, query performance tuning, or capacity planning. * Hands on experience with Linux Server stacks (Ubuntu/Debian distributions preferred). * Knowledge of cloud provisioning platforms (HashiCorp Terraform preferred). * Exposure to at least one configuration management platform (Chef preferred). * Experience with containerization/clustering technologies (Docker preferred). * Comfortability with observability and alerting tools (Prometheus/Grafana or ELK/EFK preferred). * Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and ability to describe the pros/cons associated with different rollout strategies. * A bachelor's degree (or equivalent experience) in Computer Engineering or a related field. * Demonstrable proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, Golang). * Familiarity with at least one scripting language (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby). Don't meet every qualification listed above? Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet all qualifications. At iManage, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive environment, and encourage everyone to show up as their full authentic selves. We welcome those that come with a growth mindset and a hunger for learning; so, if you are excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every