Why Joining Syntasso Matters for Your Career:

By joining us, you'll become a pivotal part of our innovative journey, shaping the future of Kratix, our platform-building framework. Your role will involve close collaboration with Syntasso customers, giving you invaluable insights into their experiences and ensuring seamless Kratix adoption. You'll also have the opportunity to make a lasting impact on the Platform Engineering community in your unique way—whether it's through insightful blogs, prestigious conference speaking engagements, or active engagement with fellow professionals.

Qualifications for Success at Syntasso:

• Collaborative Spirit: Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a team, contributing to a positive and productive work environment through strong communication and teamwork skills such as pairing.

• Dynamic Learning: Enthusiasm for working in a dynamic and learning-driven environment, even when faced with ambiguity.

• We value a strong desire to learn. While experience with every technology listed and other complex technologies is a plus, it's not required from day one. What matters most is your enthusiasm to acquire new skills and grow with us.

• Navigate Complex Systems: Proven ability to navigate complex distributed systems through relevant work experience. Priority will be given to candidates who have built and supported complex software products.

• Language Proficiency: Proficiency in programming languages such as Ruby, Rust, Python, or Golang.

• Hands-on experience in crafting and managing platforms using tools like Kubernetes, public cloud services, CNCF technologies, or the HashiCorp stack.

• A right to work in the UK, and the ability to travel regularly to London to work in our office.

What Awaits You at Syntasso:

• Shape the Future: Opportunity to influence influential product-driven, open-source software solutions that are rapidly gaining traction.

• Learn from the Best: Collaborate closely with industry leaders in the platform engineering domain, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience.

• Join the Kratix team and contribute to an exciting, thriving open-source software project.

• Experienced Leadership: Join a startup led by a seasoned leadership team with a successful track record in building and exciting startups in the platform-engineering sector, as well as holding senior leadership roles at renowned technology organizations.

• Industry Insights: Elevate your expertise by learning from some of the industry's most esteemed conference speakers and organizers, including those behind events such as DevOps Day, Kubernetes Community Days, and FastFlow Conf.

Company Benefits

• We believe in creating a work environment that is sustainable so we have a 35 hour week.

• Our office is based in London Bridge and is available to use every day if you choose, but we have a hybrid working policy:

• Office Days: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

• Remote Days: Monday and Friday by default
• Monthly Team Office Day: Every 3rd Tuesday of the month

In practice, how often some are in office varies from once a week to once a month but you need to be available and willing to be in the office up to 3 times a week.

• We're expecting big things when it comes to the growth of our company and we want everyone to benefit from the growth in value by offering share options.

• You are entitled to 25 days of annual leave, plus UK public holidays. Additionally, you'll earn one extra day of holiday for each year worked, up to a maximum of 30 days. You can carry forward up to 5 days into the next calendar year and take up to 5 days of unpaid leave if needed.

• We dedicate every other Friday as a research day for experimentation and skill development to keep Syntasso thriving.

• We organise one official company social per quarter, with past events including darts and ping pong. Unofficially, team members often gather for drinks after the monthly team office days.

• Save for your retirement via a workplace pension, with the option to use salary sacrifice; we offer 8% (employer 3%, employee 5%) with the option to increase.

• Private medical insurance through AXA, with the option to add dependents through salary sacrifice.

• Childcare can be expensive so we offer workplace nursery benefits which operates on a salary sacrifice scheme (https://www.workplace-nursery.net/).

• We have a team of avid cyclers and if you are too, you can use the Cycle to Work scheme to save up to 42% on a bike and accessories (https://www.cyclescheme.co.uk/how-it-works).

Thoughtful Interview Process:

Our interview process is designed to be inclusive and thorough, comprising several stages:

• Open conversation with our in-house recruiter, Rekha.

• Technical and values-based conversation with our Engineering Manager, Shane, and/or our CTO, Chris.

• A remote coding exercise with one of our senior engineers.

• An opportunity to meet our team in person at our office, covering architecture discussions, a pairing exercise, and time to get to know the team and find out about life at Syntasso.