Head of Full Stack Development

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic startup in London that is revolutionizing education through machine learning. As a Full Stack Developer, you will lead the development of a high-scale system aimed at providing personalized learning experiences. This innovative firm offers a unique opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology while collaborating with a diverse team of experts. With a focus on growth and creativity, you will have the freedom to implement your ideas and contribute significantly to a project that aims to make high-quality education accessible to everyone. Embrace the startup adventure and make a real impact!

Benefits

Relocation assistance

Flexible working environment

Growth opportunities

Creative freedom

Competitive salary

Cool team culture

Qualifications

• Experience in building high-load applications and deep knowledge of AWS.
• Strong understanding of clean code practices and scalability principles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a high-scale system for millions of users.
• Work on ML model development and build robust data pipelines.

Skills

High-load application development

AWS

Problem-solving

Requirements gathering

Estimation skills

Clean code practices

Scalability and simplicity in architecture

Research skills

Terraform

Docker

SOLID principles

Code review

SQL databases

REST API best practices

Security management principles

Python web frameworks

Team management

Tools

Docker

Terraform

MongoDB

Firebase

React

Job description

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We are a London-based startup with the ambition to change education with ML-powered tutoring. Our flagship product is a mobile application for teaching English to intermediate and advanced learners.

We’re on the verge of solving one of the biggest challenges in education – making high-quality, personalised learning accessible to everyone. What was once technologically impossible is now within our grasp.

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to lead this direction at Glite.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement a new high-scale system for millions of users.
• Build convenient CI/CD processes and testing pipelines to support quick iterative development and system stability.
• Research and make decisions about the technological stack and system design, considering all trade-offs.
• Work on ML model development with our team to build robust data pipelines and deploy ML models.
• Analyse large corpora of data and build real-time recommendation systems.
• Scale backend and web frontend development teams.
• Deliver numerous new, useful, and interesting features.
• Work with large amounts of data in different modalities: texts, videos, images, audio.
• Lead the full-stack development of a high-scale system designed for millions of users.
• Work in a very cross-functional team, side by side with mobile developers, product managers, ML engineers, and designers.

Skills needed:

• Build high-load applications from scratch.
• Deep knowledge of AWS.
• Problem-solving.
• Requirements gathering.
• Estimation skills (time, users, traffic, money, algorithmic complexity, cache, etc.).
• Clean code practices.
• Architecture scalability and simplicity.
• Research skills (new APIs, libraries, services, and their estimations).
• Proficiency with Terraform and Docker.
• SOLID, KISS principles, decomposition principles, and resolving monolith vs. microservices trade-offs.
• Experience in code review.
• Experience with unit, E2E, and UI testing frameworks.
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Best practices in building scalable mobile APIs (REST, HTTPS, etc.).
• Good principles of security management (secrets, protocols, etc.).
• Experience with some Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, FastAPI, etc.).
• Experience managing a team of developers.
• CAP.

Skills that are nice to have:

• Speak or learn to speak more than one language
• Experience with real-time databases.
• Experience with in-memory databases.
• Experience with frontend frameworks.
• Experience in developing educational products.
• Knowledge-sharing experience (tech talks, articles, YouTube videos, etc.).
• Experience (even non-production) with different types of programming languages: interpreted, compiled, with garbage collection, manual memory management, reference counting memory management, etc.
• Python
• AWS
• MongoDB
• Firebase
• Docker
• Terraform
• React

What we can offer:

• A real-deal startup adventure: you'll be hopping on a major project while it's still in the works!
• A cool "Do Your Thing" vibe.
• A crew all about people and products.
• Always room to grow.
• Work in the London office.
• Freedom to suggest, implement, and test ideas.
• Competitive salary & perks.
• We offer substantial relocation assistance to support your move.

Hiring process:

As a startup, it is crucial for us to hire highly skilled professionals. Our interview process consists of 3-4 interviews.

The interviews cover the following topics:

• Problem Solving
• Architecture Design and Product Design
• Domain/Platform Knowledge

After all interviews, we would like to invite you to work with us in our London office for 1-2 paid test days. If everything goes well, we will make an offer to the successful candidate.