Senior Software Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team in a full-stack position, working with Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Heroku. You will work closely with a Product Manager and a Tech Lead on deciding what features to build for customers, breaking down and building features with the team, reviewing code, mentoring engineers, ensuring operational excellence, and sharing knowledge broadly across the engineering organisation.

Requirements

• Have worked as a software engineer with Ruby on Rails
• Experience with (some of) the following: TDD, Kafka, Git, JS, Heroku
• Have worked in a metrics-driven team and care about the outcomes of your work
• Are self-driven and take responsibility for product outcomes, doing whatever’s necessary to make things happen
• Have designed backend systems and APIs to a high standard of security, reliability and operability OR have experience building end-end websites
• Enjoy working in distributed teams and working cross-functionally with Product managers, designers, user researchers and other developers
• Write code to be maintained – with good documentation, tests, and structure
• Are keen to learn continuously, share knowledge, communicate effectively and build a product in close collaboration with others

Benefits

• Competitive comp package
• Fully remote working role, with offices in London, Munich, Madrid, and Porto that you can work from
• 4-5 trips to the London office per year for social and team bonding events
• Matched pension contributions for a peaceful retirement
• Share options - when we thrive, so do you!
• Vitality Private Healthcare, for peace of mind, plus eyecare vouchers
• Life Assurance for (even more) peace of mind
• Monthly coaching sessions with Spill - our mental wellbeing partner
• Enhanced holiday package, plus Bank Holidays
• 28 days annual leave
• 1 day for your wedding
• 1 day off when you move house - because moving is hard enough without work!
• For your third year anniversary, get 30 days of annual leave per year
• For your tenth year anniversary, get 35 days of annual leave per year
• Option to buy 3 extra days of holiday per year
• Work from abroad for a month
• Inclusive parental, partner and shared parental leave, fertility treatment and pregnancy loss policies
• Bubble childcare support and discounted nanny fees for little ones
• The latest tech (Macbook or Surface) to power your gif-sending talents
• Up to £500/€550 home office allowance for that massage chair you’ve been talking about
• Generous learning and development budget to help you master your craft
• Regular social events: tech lunches, coffee with the exec sessions, lunch 8 learns, book clubs, social events/anything else you pester us for
• Refer a friend, get paid. Repeat for infinite money