Software Engineer

Software Engineer – Monorepo & Build Systems

🛠️ What You’ll Do

✨ Help shape the future of backend development by improving our monorepo and build infrastructure

Key responsibilities include:

• ⚙️ Use your expertise in Bazel to help scale and optimize large monorepo codebases containing millions of lines of code
• ☕ Work extensively with Java-based systems and tooling to support backend engineering workflows
• 🧩 Maintain and evolve the Bazel build system and related developer abstractions
• 🔧 Improve developer productivity by enhancing build speed, automation, and tooling integrations
• 🤝 Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams to design a best-in-class monorepo developer experience
• 📈 Provide meaningful insights and tools that help engineers understand and optimize builds and dependencies

👨 💻 Who You Are

We’re looking for someone passionate about developer productivity and large-scale build systems.

⭐ Key Requirements

• 💙 Strong passion for improving developer experience
• 🚀 Hands-on experience with Bazel build system (essential)
• ☕ Strong proficiency in Java (core requirement)
• 🧠 Experience working with large monorepo-based codebases

🧩 Knowledge of Bazel ecosystem tools such as:

• rules_jvm_external
• IntelliJ Bazel plugin

💻 Additional experience with:

• Python
• Starlark
• TypeScript

🔍 Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to scale engineering solutions

Contract & Location

• 📆 6-month contract
• 💼 Fully remote
• 💰 £850 / per day
• 🕒 Working within an EMEA time zone to support global collaboration