Senior Trust & Safety Engineer

Moorgate London. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own and evolve systems for tradesperson verification, review processing, and content moderation. You will design reliable event-driven workflows and lead responses to production incidents.

What you will do

Own and evolve systems for tradesperson verification, review flow, and content moderation
Lead the response when things break by reading distributed traces and correlating logs
Design reliable event-driven workflows using idempotency, retries, and dead-letter handling
Work with vetting and reviews teams to build systems that support trust
Improve monitoring, alerting, auth, and outbox patterns

Required qualifications

Strong TypeScript
Fastify or a similar Node.js framework
HTTP know-how
Event-driven instincts including idempotency and outbox pattern knowledge
Full-stack comfort including Next.js
Datadog fluency (APM traces, log search, metric queries)
SQL for diagnostics
GCP basics such as Pub/Sub backlogs and DLQs
Experience leading production incidents
Regular use of AI tools like Cursor or Claude Code

Nice to have

A keen interest in helping the team get more out of AI tools

Benefits

Competitive salary
Annual bonus & equity scheme
Health, wellbeing and learning support
Gym membership
Smart Tech Scheme
Cycle Scheme
Birthday/special day leave
Buy & sell holiday scheme
1 week's paid charity leave

Before you apply

Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
Technical interview with members of the team
Final stage with the hiring manager and a senior stakeholder

About the company

Checkatrade is the UK's leading platform for finding a tradesperson with more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews.