Senior Software Engineer

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.
• Tighten operational seams through better 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 a Talent Acquisition Partner
• Technical interview with members of the team
• Final stage with the hiring manager and a senior stakeholder
• This role isn’t open to visa sponsorship applications

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.