Platform Engineer (Typescript & NodeJS)

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Rapha's mission is to inspire a life by bike. In order to achieve this, we are committed to making the Rapha community a place of inclusion on and off the bike.

Rapha's Technology team are working to improve the ways we build and deliver software in support of our mission and enhance our customer's experience whether they be purchasing performance cycling clothing, joining a group ride via our mobile application or reading an inspiring story.

Rapha's mobile product team is responsible for creating innovative mobile apps that delight our customers both on and off the bike. We leverage cutting edge technologies such as GraphQL, Serverless and Prisma to deliver the APIs that power our apps.

We are looking for a mid-level backend developer to drive the development of our mobile app's backend stack and contribute to other exciting initiatives across Rapha Technology.

THE ROLE 

Working closely with the product manager and front end developers to define, build and deploy APIs to support new feature development in our mobile apps

Ensuring redundancy is built into all aspects of our platform to achieve high levels of service uptime

Working with our DevOps team to define, deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure

Building and maintaining internal management tools for our admin staff

Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, any relevant tool and framework updates and general best practices

Ensuring new and existing APIs have good test coverage so we can deploy with confidence

Maintain a CI / CD pipeline for our platform with the help of the DevOps team, and continually optimising this process over time

Enjoy freedom to discuss, design and build creative solutions to real world problems, to make long lasting impact

Time to learn new skills and innovate with Innovation Days which lead to a product which impacts the rest of the business

Opportunity and encouragement to contribute to open source projects when possible

THE CANDIDATE

 Development experience in NodeJS and Typescript

 Hands-on AWS services such as (Lambda Functions, ECS, S3, SQS, SNS)

 Integration experience of third-party APIs

 Experience of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, SAM, Ansible)

 Understanding of CI/CD Pipelines on AWS services

 An interest in new technology and how it can be incorporated into a leading digital business environment to maintain a competitive edge

Within commuting distance of our office in London for weekly meetings

Working at Rapha

We are continuously looking into ways to invest in our employees and build a better working culture and environment. Here are just some of the internal benefits we offer. 

Flexible working hours 

Support ad-hoc remote working during the week 

No meeting Fridays - giving you time back for things like personal development

Free barista coffee and Friday afternoon social drinks in the office

Monthly department social events and quarterly office social away days

We offer a flexible riding benefit to allow you to go out riding on a Wednesday morning with colleagues or learn to cycle to cycling through our Getting Started Scheme. 

We offer all our employees a 50% apparel discount

An annual clothing allowance 

Free membership to the Rapha Cycling Club 

Company Pension Scheme

Enhanced Parental Leave

At Rapha, we welcome candidates from all backgrounds. We are always working to create an environment that is focused on equality, inclusion, empowerment and respect.

As part of our continued commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion, we would like to invite you to answer a set of voluntary demographic questions. If you choose to answer, the responses will only be used to help us identify areas for improvement in our hiring process and to measure our efforts to recruit diverse and under-represented talent. Your responses, or your choice not to respond, won't be associated with your specific application and won't in any way be used in the hiring decision.