Full Stack Engineer, Growth

Ffern Ltd.; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading startup as a Full Stack Engineer, Growth, where you'll drive user acquisition and engagement through innovative engineering solutions. Collaborate with in-house film producers and a technical growth team to optimize user experiences and conversion rates. This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic environment with a mission-driven brand, leveraging your skills in TypeScript, React, and SQL.

Benefits

Private healthcare

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Remote work options

Flexible schedule

Qualifications

• Significant experience building full-stack applications using React.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and their impact on conversion.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack applications focused on user growth.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to identify growth opportunities.

Skills

TypeScript

SQL

UX

Education

Academic degree from a top-tier university

Tools

PostgreSQL

React

Next.js

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The Role

As the first Full Stack Growth Engineer at Ffern, you will play a pivotal role in driving user acquisition, engagement, and conversion through innovative engineering solutions at one of the fastest growing startups in the UK. Projects at Ffern are unique - you’ll be working with in-house film producers and designers, as well as a highly technical growth team (everyone in Growth knows SQL and Python). You will be embedded within our growth team, but work in close collaboration with the broader engineering team and a dotted reporting line to the CTO, to ensure alignment on technical strategy and best practices.

• Design, develop, and deploy full-stack applications and features focused on optimizing user growth and conversion.
• Utilize your strong proficiency in a programming language (ideally TypeScript) and the React framework to build engaging and effective user experiences.
• Leverage your solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, to extract, analyze, and interpret data.
• Write complex SQL queries to answer critical product and marketing questions, informing growth strategies and measuring experiment success.
• Bring a growth mindset and an experimental approach to engineering, actively proposing and implementing A/B tests and other optimization strategies.
• Maintain a keen eye for user experience (UX) and conversion rate optimization (CRO), ensuring a seamless and effective user journey.
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including product, marketing, and design, to identify and prioritize growth opportunities.
• Contribute to a service-oriented architecture, building scalable and maintainable solutions.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in a programming language, ideally TypeScript.
• Significant experience building full-stack applications using React.
• Solid understanding of relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL, and confident in writing complex SQL queries.
• Strong understanding of UX principles and their impact on conversion.
• Academic degree from a top-tier university.
• Logical reasoning skills. Passion for architecting systems and building processes.
• Enthusiasm for working in a start-up environment with a mission-driven brand.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with marketing tools and concepts, such as Meta APIs, event tracking, attribution models, and performance reporting.
• Experience with Next.js.

Benefits

What We Offer

• Competitive salary: Experience dependent.
• Private healthcare.
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays, increasing with tenure.
• Remote work options with a flexible schedule.
• Ffern membership and a vibrant team culture.
• Beautiful work environment in sunlit studios with modern amenities.

Note: Ffern is growing rapidly, roles are flexible. If you’re passionate and meet most criteria, we encourage you to apply.