United Kingdom onlyTrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. Our platform connects a thriving global community of pet lovers through a unique trust-based membership model. We’re on a mission to create a world where pet owners can travel with peace of mind , knowing their pets are in safe hands, while sitters enjoy unique homestays around the world.
Our vision is simple: to become the world’s most loved travel solution for pet people - and we’re making it a reality. With almost 250,000 members worldwide with the ambition of scaling to 1 Million, 97% say we have improved their lives, and our growth is high as word-of-mouth fuels a fast-growing, passionate community.
TrustedHousesitters was named one of Escape the City's top organisations to work for in 2023 and we were proud to be part of the 2024 cohort of Technation’s Future Fifty, the UK’s leading pre-IPO programme. In October 2024 we secured B Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to our people, the planet and pets across the world.
At TrustedHousesitters, we embrace a collaborative, high-impact work environment where innovation, individual accountability, and ownership drive everything we do. We believe in empowering our people to see the real impact of their work. Every team member plays a role in crafting quality experiences for our members, and we continuously push ourselves to improve, iterate, and innovate always with the goal of strengthening our global community of pet lovers.
Now is an exciting time to join TrustedHousesitters where innovation, advocacy and community-driven growth are at the heart of our success. If you're looking to make a real impact in a mission-led, fast-scaling tech business, this is the right place for you.
About the Role
As a Senior Frontend Engineer on our Growth team, your mission is to help build the engineer that drives our new member acquisition. Working closely with a team of other engineers and senior engineer leads, you will architect and build the platform and tools that give our marketing and content teams the speed and autonomy to test hypotheses, launch experiments, and scale our growth without engineering dependencies
This role is for an engineer with a focus for action. You understand that success is measured by solving business problems, not by lines of code. You thrive on iterating quickly to find what works, then pragmatically evolving the solution as needs change.
Responsibilities
- Building a Self-Serve Marketing Platform: You’ll drive a significant uplift in user acquisition by architecting and building features for a self-serve marketing platform (e.g., a headless CMS, dynamic page builder). So that marketing teams can launch campaigns content updates, A/B testing, and user journey customisation without engineering dependencies.
- Design System as a Product: You’ll be a key contributor evolving our design system, treating it as an internal product, enabling developers and marketers to build high-quality, consistent UIs faster.
- Implement a Modern, Scalable Frontend: You’ll implement new functionality and features within our Next.js and TypeScript stack, write high-quality, testable code, and collaborate with your team on best practices.
Requirements
- You have 4+ years of experience building, shipping, and maintaining high-quality, complex web applications using Typescript, React, and Next.js.
- You are a product-minded engineer who can abstract complex problems into elegant, reusable solutions and internal tools.You have experience setting the technical direction for projects, driving consensus, and providing guidance to your peers.
- You have experience building maintainable and testable codebases, and unit testing techniques.
- You are an excellent communicator who thrives in a cross-functional environment, capable of partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of some backend technologies.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, product-led growth environment.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary and bonus, we offer a range of benefits, including:
Fully remote work
Generous equity options
Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme
25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure
Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters
Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership. This includes benefits like airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you
X5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year
Our team have an unlimited housesitting allowance, can work remotely from their sits, and are eligible to £500 per year towards travel costs
£200 annually towards home office equipment
Access to Spaces (co-working) Locations across the globe
Monthly working from home stipend
Macbook
Find a rescue pet to join your family and we’ll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home.
We host a quarterly all-expenses paid meet-up and will fund team events (remote or in person) throughout the year
We can cover costs of personal development resources, and have a regular time set aside for personal development
Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan
SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan
Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve
Weekly virtual yoga sessions
Brighton Bikeshare
Recruitment Referral Bonus
If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you!
In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (For example- she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).
At the heart of our team are a mix of diverse backgrounds. Here at TrustedHousesitters, we’re committed to the equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process and selection. Offers of employment into TrustedHousesitters are based solely on individual merit, qualifications, and the person's professional suitability.
Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision-making process.
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