United Kingdom only🚀 Who are We?
Grip is the AI-powered, end-to-end event platform built for engagement. The flexible system helps commercial event organizers like Ascential, Hyve, Emerald and Clarion Events boost revenue by establishing, maintaining and tracking relationships between participants over multiple events. This is possible because Grip goes beyond networking. It combines AI with billions of interactions happening across the platform with a powerful event management system, seamless registration and award-winning mobile event app so participants meet the right people at the right time.
We’re hiring into our Grip Manage team where our engineers are building a best-in-class event registration platform, dealing with complex configurations & integrations, handling payments, feeding our data pipelines and insights, and working on exciting on-site technologies like smart badges and location telemetry.
We’re an international team (UK, the Americas and Europe) that places a strong emphasis on quality. We’re iterating fast and progressively refactoring our code as we add new features. Everyone in the team helps direct our technical strategy and prioritise projects.
We embrace building with AI to help us deliver faster, and better, and we’re looking for someone who is excited by this new era of software development and the opportunities it brings.
Our core stack includes Typescript (Node.js, React), MongoDB & Postgres. We use AWS for our cloud services and our infrastructure is managed with K8s and Terraform. We test with Jest and Cypress, and monitor our systems with Prometheus, Grafana and Sentry.
🚀 Core Responsibilities
We want product-minded engineers who will:
Take ownership of features from start to finish using agile methodologies, delivering with feature flags, tests and observability
Work with our product team to refine plans and identify issues and opportunities
Deliver features with security and performance in mind
Champion high-quality communications including technical proposals and specifications, testing reporting, release planning and more.
Mentoring colleagues to help them grow as engineers and actively supporting their development
Be happy working across the tech stack
🚀 Your Career Path
We are highly invested in your development, and your career path will be a standing, dedicated item in your regular check-ins with your line manager.
As a Senior Software Engineer at Grip you will have plenty of opportunities to grow and try new things, leading others or owning technical initiatives across the organisation. We operate with a clear progression framework and use quarterly performance reviews to reflect and set goals so that you can achieve your full potential.
🚀 Grip Benefits
Grip is a remote-first company, but we have an office in London Bridge which you’re welcome to come to as much as you like
Company Training Sponsorship Programme
25 holiday days per year
Sabbatical Leave
Career Progression Pathways, an opportunity to take the lead in shaping an entire industry through AI
Kind, fun and ambitious company culture
Group Life Insurance and company health plan
Requirements
🚀Experience and Skills
You should have:
Experience delivering production-grade software using modern languages and frameworks
AI competency - you should be well versed in building with coding assistants and agents like ClaudeCode, Codex etc.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a hybrid environment
The ability to proactively engage in the product development lifecycle from start to finish
Top-tier testing skills and a burning desire to automate
Experience with devops practices and CI/CD pipelines
