Head of Full Stack Development

JR United Kingdom; Slough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A London-based startup, JR United Kingdom, is seeking a Full Stack Developer to lead the development of an innovative ML-powered tutoring application. This role involves designing high-scale systems, collaborating in a cross-functional team, and working with advanced learning technologies. Join a dynamic environment with significant opportunities for professional growth and the chance to influence education accessibility.

Benefits

Competitive salary & perks

Substantial relocation assistance

Freedom to suggest and test ideas

Cool 'Do Your Thing' vibe

Work in the London office

Qualifications

• Experience managing a team of developers.
• Experience with Python web frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.) is desirable.
• Proficient in designing high-load applications from scratch.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a new high-scale system for millions of users.
• Research and make decisions about technological stacks and system design.
• Lead development of a high-scale system designed for millions of users.

Skills

Problem-solving

Deep knowledge of AWS

Clean code practices

Architecture scalability and simplicity

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases

Proficiency with Terraform

Experience in code review

Experience with unit, E2E, and UI testing frameworks

Tools

Docker

Terraform

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.