Senior Software Engineer

<p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location:</strong> UK. Fully remote, or from our London office next to East Croydon Station</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Working pattern:</strong> Fully remote working is allowed, and the London office is available to you</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Reports to:</strong> CTO</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>About Us</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Hozah is a tech-led, award-winning company driving change in the parking industry and reimagining urban mobility. Our mission is simple but powerful: to transform parking into a seamless, automated experience, paving the way for smarter, more sustainable cities.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">With recent recognition as PayTech Company of the Year, a place among Deloitte’s Top 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies in the UK, and significant VC/PE investment, we’re one of the fastest scaling companies in the country.<br /><br /></p><h2>Role Overview</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will build the products drivers and car park operators use every day: ANPR camera enforcement, pay-by-web, Autopay, permits, a client console and a motorist account app, across about 160 sites, and the new products we build next. We are a small engineering team, and we form teams around the work from the people we have.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We work in Kotlin on the backend (Spring Boot WebFlux, a domain-driven layering of domain, edge services and repository, Postgres, Axon event sourcing and Pub/Sub) and in TypeScript with Next.js and React on the front end, on GCP and Kubernetes. You do not need to know Kotlin to apply. Our engineers work with AI coding agents day to day, and we are looking for people who use them well and check what they produce.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Every engineer here is product-minded. You will talk to the people who use what you build, decide with product people what is worth building, and find out afterwards whether it worked.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will report to the CTO and work with a team that reviews each other’s work.<br /><br /></p><h2>The Senior level</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Senior Software Engineer. You own a product area: its architecture, how it is staged, its quality bar, and working out with customers what is needed. You may be the only engineer on a new product area, so you need to be able to work alone for weeks at a time and keep quality high without a peer reviewer. Other engineers will come to you for design review. </p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Own the delivery of what you are given, from the first ticket to production, with tests, and be the person who fixes it if it breaks.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Talk to the people who use what you build, and use what you learn to shape and cut scope.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write acceptance criteria, and check a feature after release to see whether it was used and whether it worked.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Work in our existing codebase and its layering, and keep it consistent for the next engineer.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Use AI coding agents as part of how you work, and be accountable for everything you ship, however it was written.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Take part in the on-call rota