Born in 2014, Yoti is a digital identity and biometric technology company that makes it safer for people to prove who they are. The Yoti app was designed with privacy at its core, giving people a secure way to prove their identity and share third-party credentials with organisations and other people.
Today, we have over ten million app downloads around the world. We’ve expanded our offering to a suite of business solutions that span identity verification, age verification and estimation, e-signing, AI anti-spoofing technologies and we continue to think of innovative new offerings.
From day one, we’ve been working to fix an outdated identity system. This is not a journey we make on our own but with policy advisors, think tanks, researchers, academics, humanitarian bodies, our users and everyday people. We are committed to solving identity problems through grassroots research and social purpose initiatives.
Responsible for providing expertise and producing high quality, maintainable code through the full software lifecycle relating to any projects the Yoti Docs team is involved with.
Principal Responsibilities:
Working closely with the Team members, Lead and Stakeholders to achieve the Team’s OKR’s.
Accountable to develop features to sprint goals and encourage and support team peers to deliver on time.
Accountable to understand delivery process and align the development accordingly to vision and values of Yoti.
Participating in all aspects of the Agile development process
Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience:
Solid commercial experience creating websites using Java with good OOP principles
Working knowledge of groovy
Experience with Dependency Injection frameworks, such as Spring or Guice
Experience with vertx
Solid understanding of thread safety and transaction management
Solid grasp of REST and RESTful API design.
Experience with testing frameworks, e.g. JUnit, TestNG or Spock
An Agile mindset
We’re looking for people who can adapt to a fast-paced environment, as well as champion our brand and what we stand for. We value a positive attitude and people who have a collaborative, creative and transparent approach to solving problems.
In return, we offer a great benefits package, including:
Competitive salary and performance-based discretionary annual bonus
Flexible working approach to support a positive work/life balance - with core hours, hybrid working.
Comprehensive private medical insurance coverage
Life assurance
Pension with enhanced employer contributions based on service
Options and access to our internal share market
25 days’ holiday, increasing to 28 days with service
Birthday Day Off, after your first year of employment
5 ‘Selfie’ Days to be used towards personal development, volunteering, charity events, etc.
Access to the Cycle to Work scheme
Continuous learning opportunities with access to annual training budgets, Udemy and conferences.
Team and company-wide social activities throughout the year
We believe in equal opportunities
It takes a diverse community of passionate, talented and committed people to build a simpler, more secure way of proving identity. We’re an equal opportunity employer, so we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, with different outlooks and experiences.
If your application is successful please be aware that as part of our pre-employment checks:
We will check your details against fraud prevention databases
We will check identity; address match; PEPs and sanctions; bank validation, verification, fraud checks, negative data (CCJ, bankruptcy)
If our investigations identify fraud or other criminal offences both when applying for a job and during your employment, we will record the details on the relevant fraud prevention databases. This information may be accessed from the UK and other countries and used by law enforcement agencies and other organisations to prevent fraud.
Please contact the People Team to get information on which fraud prevention databases we use.
If you would like to be added to our Talent Pool for any future opportunities, please email the People Team on peopleteam@yoti.com. For more information please read our Applicant Privacy Notice.