Software Engineer

Remote from
🇬🇧 UK
Job type
Full Time,
Job posted
Apply before
11 Dec 2024
Industry
Computer Software

About GitHub

The best place to build and share code.

As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.

Locations:

In this role you can work from Remote, United Kingdom

Overview:

As a software engineer at GitHub, you will enhance the collaboration experience at GitHub by working closely with a community of engineers and designers with a distributed, diverse and passionate team delivering the services that millions of developers depend on. In this role you will design, prototype, implement, ship and support highly performant and inspiring user experiences with your team.

We are looking for creative problem solvers and diverse thinkers, people who care about culture as well as customers and features. We believe that how we do things is as important as what we do. Big vision, a common purpose, passion for quality, curiosity, dedication, and investment in fun and collaboration are what lead to great results. Great products reflect the teams that build them.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, test and ship high-quality technical solutions that scale across multiple GitHub services.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative solutions.
  • Receive technical mentorship, collaborate and pair with others, provide code reviews, and communicate clearly to your leadership about progress, blockers, and gaps.
  • Own and advocate for the health and quality of the systems that the team builds, including participating in on-call and first responder rotations
  • Write architecture briefs and proposals, carry out code experiments, and build prototypes to learn how we can achieve planetary scale with our systems.
  • Design and implement APIs to facilitate seamless integration between software components.
  • Utilize CI/CD tools to set up automated pipelines for continuous integration and delivery.
  • Become intimately familiar with the systems you build and take pride in writing maintainable code.

Required Qualifications:

  • Experience in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or related technical discipline with proven experience maintaining production software in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Ruby, Rust, or Python
    •  OR Associate’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Math, Physics, Computer Engineering, or related field
    • OR equivalent experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Git and GitHub
  • Experience using Azure technologies is a bonus
  • Experience using front-end frameworks like React.js
  • Understanding of REST principles and experience with backend APIs
  • Strong written and verbal communication skill
  • Passionate about healthy team culture and collaboration
  • Comfortable working transparently in an agile environment and soliciting feedback from peers.

GitHub values:

  • Customer-obsessed
  • Ship to learn
  • Growth mindset
  • Own the outcome
  • Better together
  • Diverse and inclusive

Manager fundamentals:

  • Model
  • Coach
  • Care

Leadership principles:

  • Create clarity
  • Generate energy
  • Deliver success

Who We Are:

GitHub is the world’s leading AI-powered developer platform with 100 million developers and counting. We’re also home to the biggest open-source community on earth (and 99% of the world’s software has open-source code in its DNA). Many of the apps and programs you use every day are built on GitHub.

Our teams are dreamers, doers, and pioneers, leading the way in AI, driving humanitarian efforts around the globe, and even sending open source to Mars (and beyond!). At GitHub, our goal is to create the space you need to do your best work. We’re remote-first and offer competitive pay, generous learning and growth opportunities, and excellent benefits to support you, wherever you are—because we know that people flourish when they can work on their own terms.

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GitHub is hiring a remote Software Engineer from 🇬🇧 UK

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This is a Full Time role.

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