Staff Engineer

The opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Backend Staff Engineer who wants to be at the forefront of the AI revolution to help shape the future of the Engineering strategy - taking the team to the next level. You’ll help to set the direction of backend engineering, be a key person in our AI capability development by navigating everything from decision making to implementation, whilst expertly supporting engineers to balance quality, rapid delivery and value with complexity.

Salary

The salary range for this role is £100K to £125K.

In person and remote working balance

We embrace a flexible hybrid work model. While we don't mandate specific office days, we ask Attesters to work on-site 2 days per week. This approach allows us to collaborate in person, while ensuring enough time remotely for deep, focussed work.

What you’ll be doing…

Our tech stack includes Java (which you will be building in primarily), Python, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and AWS and whilst we don’t need specific knowledge of these technologies, you should be familiar enough with similar tech to help get up to speed quickly. We use both external and internal AI models.

As a Backend Staff Engineer, you will

Lead Engineering Excellence

• Build upon and shape the future of our ambitious AI capability, architecting systems that scale, experimenting with new technologies, and defining best practices for integrating AI throughout our products and engineering stack.
• Actively lead and contribute to squad discussions, offering your expertise and insights to help solve challenges and work towards solutions.
• Lead by example by writing simple, reliable, and well-tested code that others are proud to build upon to make quality and excellence the default across every part of our platform.
• Lead chapter meetings with positivity and purpose, providing dedicated 1:1 time with engineers to listen, understand, and offer constructive feedback.
• Drive the performance of engineers, helping them grow into confident developers while sharing your experience and feedback.

Deliver cross-functional impact

• Alongside the technology leadership team, build and refine Attest’s backend software delivery processes, ensuring they are scalable and efficient.
• Collaborate with domain-specific engineering squads to deliver key platform features, ensuring alignment with the engineering and business strategy.
• Drive improvements in engineering efficiency by identifying patterns, refining tooling, enhancing CI pipelines, and streamlining processes.
• Take ownership of the definition of both public and private APIs, taking a hands-on approach to problem-solving.

What’s in it for you…

• You’ll play a defining role in designing and scaling the systems that make our AI-driven research experiences faster, smarter, and more intuitive.
• You will help brands understand and grow their audiences through high-quality insights. Our platform turns complex research challenges into fast, actionable insight. As a Backend Staff Engineer, you’ll architect and evolve the systems that make that possible, shaping how millions of data points become business-changing knowledge.
• Play a key role in setting the direction of backend engineering as we continue to evolve our product positioning globally.
• Drive Attest’s platform evolution, with a focus on quality improving reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
• You’ll join a team where curiosity, inclusion, and empathy are part of the engineering DNA. Collaboration is genuine—people share knowledge, debate ideas openly, and celebrate each other’s wins.

Amazing benefits…

• Work from anywhere up to 20 days a year
• 25 days holiday per year plus additional festive days
• £240 yearly L&D budget, plus access to a larger budget for qualifications and courses
• Private Medical Insurance
• 1 day per quarter to do charity or community work
• Enhanced parental leave (18 weeks paid leave for Primary carer)
• Up to 12 weeks paid leave for premature births and neonatal care
• Paid leave for IVF and fertility treatment and pregnancy loss
• Share options and an additional bonus scheme

We’d love to hear from you, if…

You align with and actively embody our core values, which are more than just words—they are the foundation of everything we do. Our values drive our decisions, shape our culture, and define who we are as a team. Learn more about them here. Specifically this means:

• You Embrace The Future by exploring new tools, architectures, and AI capabilities to keep at the forefront of innovation. You guide technical strategy and investment to ensure that your solutions are not just for today’s challenges but for tomorrow’s opportunities.
• You identify and adopt emerging technologies that enhance scalability, performance, and developer productivity. You help others Embrace the Future by championing a mindset of innovation and curiosity, encouraging teams to experiment, learn, and adapt, encouraging others to think systemically and design solutions that will stand the test of time.
• You are Outcome Focused by demonstrating the ability to lead and implement engineering efficiencies in a Principle, Staff, Architect role or an Engineering Manager looking to go back into a high level IC role, coming at problems with ‘First Principles’ thinking’.
• You like to Win Together, embracing and valuing all perspectives to find the best process, solution or product for a wide variety of people with differing opinions, experiences and ideas.
• You want to Win Together, leading by example and mentoring and coaching other members of the team to be successful.
• You help others Win Together as you are a confident, clear communicator - sharing the what, the why and the how of what you are thinking and doing in all directions.
• You have a passion for optimization and efficiency. You are Outcome Focused and are not afraid to challenge the status quo and seek innovative solutions where they add value.