Company:
Wevat is a tech startup that is digitising tax free shopping,
helping tourists to get VAT back more easily. The vision is to create a
best-in-class service, removing inconvenience and reducing fees to make
it fun and fair to reclaim VAT.
So far, Wevat has secured key partnerships with Travelex, WeChat Pay
and are working closely with tax authorities in the UK, with the view to
expand into other European countries in 2019. Wevat was a winner in the
2017 London Tech Week Alibaba Cloud Pitch Competition as well as a
finalist in the LVMH Innovation Awards 2017. Wevat is backed by VCs, and
has raised around £500,000 of funding so far.
Job Description:
Ahead of our seed round, we’re looking for a backend engineer who
enjoys writing beautiful code, and gets off on setting up robust
infrastructures.
Ideally we want somebody with at least 4 years experience in backend
development and who has a strong knowledge of the following stack (in
priority order):
- Java 8
- Spring Boot
- Kubernetes
- MySQL
- Continuous delivery (Jenkins, Git)
- AWS
- JUnit
- Hibernate
- Docker
Bonus knowledge:
- React.js
- HTML & CSS
- Experience in reactive programming
- PDF generation
- OCR technologies
The following things will also be important in the role:
- Full ownership of existing micro-service infrastructure
- Setting up continuous delivery and automatic release pipelines
- Reassessment of current system on security, performance and cost
- Design of relevant documentation and knowledge base material
- Working closely with the founders to understand the multiplex that is tax refunds
- A mindset for continuous improvement