Careers
Join a small, fun team of experienced software folk, building highly innovative features for an industry being transformed by technology.
Socket originates from the Xavier Analytics founding team - Xavier was acquired by Receipt Bank in 2020, rebranded as Dext Precision. After departing in 2022, the team partnered with accounting firm FD Works to understand practice operations, and launched Socket to empower accounting and bookkeeping firms when it comes to sales and profitability.
Open Roles
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
Full Time Remote (UK work authorisation required)
We're looking for our first Site Reliability Engineer to design and scale our infrastructure, ensuring security, performance, and resilience. This is a hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys automation and helping developers move quickly.
Responsibilities
- →Design, build, and maintain reliable SaaS infrastructure (Laravel, Postgres, React, TypeScript)
- →Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability tools
- →Manage AWS and Laravel Cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
- →Improve and own CI/CD pipelines
- →Automate provisioning, scaling, testing, backups
- →Establish SLOs, SLIs, and incident management processes
- →Partner with developers on reliability practices
- →Define security, cost optimisation, and compliance approaches
- →Contribute to software development when available
Required Skills
- ✓3+ years DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering experience
- ✓Strong cloud platform understanding (AWS preferred)
- ✓Docker and container orchestration proficiency
- ✓CI/CD pipeline management experience
- ✓Monitoring/alerting tools familiarity (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)
- ✓Scripting/programming ability (Bash, Python, Go, PHP)
- ✓Excellent async communication and documentation
- ✓Pragmatic mindset
Bonus Skills
- +Accounting/bookkeeping industry exposure
- +SaaS or multi-tenant systems support experience
- +Laravel, Postgres, or TypeScript familiarity
- +Site security, compliance, or incident response interest
Full-Stack Software Engineer (Mid-Level)
Full Time Remote (UK work authorisation required)
We're looking for a Full-Stack Software Engineer to work across our tech stack from database design to front-end features. This is a hands-on role for a pragmatic, self-managing engineer operating in a lean, high-impact team that values autonomy and accountability.
Responsibilities
- →Design, build, and maintain features across the stack (Postgres, Laravel, React, TypeScript)
- →Own features end-to-end from concept to deployment, including testing and smoke testing
- →Collaborate via async communication (extensive Loom usage)
- →Work with founders and product team iterating quickly
- →Contribute to engineering culture, documentation, and processes
Required Skills
- ✓3+ years professional full-stack experience
- ✓Modern PHP proficiency (Laravel framework preferred)
- ✓Solid React and TypeScript experience
- ✓SQL/PostgreSQL proficiency
- ✓Git and GitHub source control comfort
- ✓Strong async communication and documentation habits
- ✓Ability to work with minimal supervision
- ✓Pragmatic approach to testing and maintainability
Bonus Skills
- +Accounting/bookkeeping industry exposure
- +Automated testing and CI/CD pipeline experience
- +AI integration interest for customer and internal workflows
Join the team
Don't see a role that fits? We're always interested in exceptional people - send a speculative application to careers@usesocket.com