Backend / Fullstack Engineer

Hook; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days holiday (option to buy/sell holiday)

Generous stock options

Private health insurance

Flexible wellness allowance

Annual learning & development budget

Flexible working arrangement

Best equipment for everyone

Job summary

Hook is seeking a skilled full-stack developer for its innovative team in Greater London. The role involves both frontend and backend development, primarily using Python and React. You will work on designing product features, improving architecture, and ensuring system performance. The position offers a competitive salary between £70,000-£85,000, benefits such as 27 days holiday, stock options, and a flexible working model that balances in-office and remote work.

Qualifications

• Experience working in taking products through different development environments into Production.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate and convey ideas.
• The ability to pick up and use third-party APIs and tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and build product features that add value to our customers.
• Write clean, well-tested code with a back-end focus.
• Monitor system performance and ensure everything is running.

Skills

Frontend and backend development

React

Python

Django, Flask, FastAPI

Communication skills

Third-party APIs

Cloud technologies

Job description

About Hook

We’re building the future of customer growth. At Hook, we use AI and Machine Learning to help businesses predict revenue with accuracy, drive customer loyalty, and capture massive value from their existing customers.

We’re a Series A company who ranked 33 out of 100 on the Sifted fastest growing startups and we have raised multi‑million in funding from some of the top investors in Europe and the US (e.g. Balderton Capital and Lightspeed) and have an enviable list of customers that we’re working with including some of the fastest growing companies in the world. We’re looking for ambitious people that want to be part of our meaningful vision of changing how businesses engage with their customers, and of building one of the world’s leading workplaces for great people along the way.

Responsibilities

You will wear many hats in your engineering duties. Your day‑to‑day will include:

• Working in a team with technical and non‑technical colleagues to design and build product features that add value to our customers
• Working across the stack (back‑end focus) and writing clean, well‑tested code
• Own significant parts of our product architecture and propose and lead new improvements
• Reviewing other software engineers code and provide structured feedback
• Designing our engineering processes and patterns to be the best for our team
• Monitoring system performance and ensure everything is up and running
• Designing our data schemas to suit the needs across the business

There’s a lot going on - you’ll be building a brand new category of SaaS product! The more you want to be involved, the more you will find there is to do and the more impact you will have on our joint success.

Requirements

We're looking for an ambitious self‑starter who wants to be part of an early‑stage company full of amazing talent and with a global vision.

• Experience working on both frontend and backend development. We use React on the frontend side and Python on the back end
• Experience working in taking products through different development environments into Production
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate and convey ideas to diverse stakeholders
• The ability to pick up and use third‑party APIs and tools
• Experience working with Python on the backend with frameworks, such as Django, Flask or FastAPI
• Desirable: A good understanding of cloud technologies

Salary

£70,000-£85,000 (depending on experience)

Benefits

• 27 days holiday (option to buy and sell holiday) + bank holidays
• Generous stock options
• Private health insurance so you can get the best care you need
• Flexible monthly wellness allowance that you can use monthly on things like gyms, yoga, mental health & healthy food
• Annual learning & development budget for every employee
• Flexible working – we’ll all come together three days a week but otherwise you can work from home or come into our awesome office in Liverpool Street
• The best equipment for everyone to work with

Our founder and teams are incredibly passionate about creating a company culture that is diverse, inclusive, productive and enjoyable for all our colleagues. As part of a growing start‑up team, we expect a lot from you and will work hard to make sure you have everything you need to be at your best.