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Technical Lead

Open 15d

What you’ll be doing?

You’ll be a valued voice on our small team (growing weekly!) and have the chance to have a huge impact on the future direction of the technical platform.

On a day to day basis you will be:

  • Pivotal in the technical design & architecture of the SAAS platform
  • Own the development of our Tech stack
  • Developing features & functionality as we move beyond MVP
  • Championing best practices across the codebase
  • Identifying & resolving performance issues and bugs
  • Helping shape development processes as we scale the team
  • Helping build an open, collaborative team culture
  • Coaching and supporting new (sometimes junior) developers
  • Build the front end of our applications through appealing visual and mobile responsive design

Why should I apply?

  • Generous options package
  • 21 days holiday (+ bank holidays)
  • Partially remote working and work in our London office
  • Flexible working hours (core hours/within London time +/-3)
  • Conference/training budget - we want to support your growth
  • High spec setup - laptop, monitor + other home office perks TBC
  • Once in a lifetime experience in a startup as it gears up for high growth
  • Degree(required) ideally in com
  • 5-8 years of professional experience on NodeJs, ReactJs
  • Require AWS experience
  • API micro-service and message oriented architecture experience
  • Knowledge of back-end languages or frameworks such as PHP, Laravel
  • Experience with containerisation (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with databases - MySQL, MongoDB

What we’re looking for

  • You’ve done lots if not all of these things before
  • You care about the code you write
  • You’re happy owning tickets all the way through to production
  • You’re focused on delivering value to users
  • You know the right way to do things, while still being pragmatic
  • You enjoy architecting systems - it’s down to us to lay the foundation we’ll build on for years to come
  • You’re happy operating in the problem space, not just knocking down tickets

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