Who we are
Founded in 2014 in London, United Kingdom, Garrison has raised more than $70m to date from London investors including Dawn Capital, IP Group, NM Capital and BGF. Garrison’s strengths lie in its experienced and dedicated teams, building on years of expertise in cyber security to bring genuinely game changing technology to the industry.
Garrison is working to build the future of cyber security and is already deploying at scale in both the government and commercial space. Our existing customers are large organisations averaging over 50,000 employees each, across sectors including banking, insurance, media, telco, law and government.
Our working culture
We are an exciting start-up with ground-breaking technology; a very serious mission to solve real world problems, but with a positive and highly inclusive atmosphere, and an excellent work/life balance!
At Garrison we celebrate diversity and inclusion, and we’re focused on continuously improving equality for the benefit of our employees, products, and community. We recruit, develop, and retain talent purely on the basis of qualifications, merit and business needs.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take every possible step to ensure that every person employed or seeking employment with us receives fair treatment. No-one shall be disadvantaged on the grounds of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital and parental status, neurodiversity, social background, physical ability, illness or otherwise.
Requirements
Overview of the role
- As a Cloud Software Engineer at Garrison, you will be responsible for developing new products and capabilities for our cloud platform.
- As well as writing software, you will be involved in developing and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and deployment systems, and liaising with operational and customer-facing teams to deliver features into production.
- 2023/24 is shaping up to be our busiest and most productive year yet, with increasing demand, steady growth, and plenty of impactful projects taking place!
Product software development
- Developing functionality for the product to meet the key market needs with a focus on delivering reliable, high-quality software solutions.
- Contributing to the scoping and design of new software and supporting planning and estimating, including responsibility for estimating individual development tasks.
- Working alongside our other engineering teams to integrate components and deliver new functionality and enhancements to Garrison’s cloud solution.
- Continuously improving the team’s development process, including build automation, code generation and test orchestration tasks.
Continuous improvement and innovation
- Improving code maintainability, automation, and supportability, e.g. code refactoring, code peer-review, unit test development and provision of stable APIs.
- Suggesting and progressing opportunities for innovation across the product, investigating new technologies and techniques, performing prototyping with the direction of senior leadership, and discovering new opportunities for new design improvements and product features.
- Recognising the industry that Garrison operates in, and appreciating the importance of following Garrison's information security policies.
Skills and experience
- Demonstrable experience developing and maintaining non-trivial software applications in a mainstream programming language.
- Experience with one or more of the following is desirable:
- Python
- AWS or similar cloud platforms
- Web back-end development
- A passion for technology, demonstrated through previous project work, professional roles and/or personal projects. You’ll likely enjoy technical challenges and delivering results!
- Self-motivated, flexible, and adaptable, and can cope when thrown in at the deep end.
- Will understand the importance of planning, prioritisation and getting work done on schedule.
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, plus the ability to effectively collaborate with others.
Benefits
Our employee benefits package is as follows:
- 25 days holiday allowance per year (with the opportunity to purchase more)
- Company pension scheme of 8% base salary (depending on minimum contribution)
- Personal annual training budget
- Share options
- Perkbox discounts
- Life assurance and critical illness cover
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Enhanced parental leave
- Income protection
- Cycle to work scheme
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- Flexible work