Product Developer

CharlieHR; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Private Health Insurance

£750 Work Your Way Budget yearly

Learn You Way Fund

£30 monthly wellbeing budget

Sabbatical policy

Office access to London locations

Job summary

CharlieHR is seeking a Full Stack Rails Developer to join our growing software development team and help deliver a great product and user experience to our thousands of small business customers.

This is a permanent full-time role with a hybrid-working model in the UK. We cannot offer visa sponsorship, and you must be able to work in the UK. We value collaboration, learning, and delivering high-quality software across the stack.

Qualifications

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails.
• Experience building web apps using HTML over the wire.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Enthusiasm for collaborating with and helping others.
• Self-awareness and humility – you know that honest feedback is how you grow.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve Charlie, a modern Rails app that’s a joy to work on.
• Use our design system to ship functional and beautiful features.
• Be part of a cross-functional team with other developers and product managers.
• Work with developers of all experience levels, with opportunities to learn and share learnings.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

HTML over the wire

HTML/CSS/JavaScript

Team collaboration

Self-awareness

Tools

Stimulus

Turbo

Job description

About Charlie

We’re Charlie and we exist to Make Work Better. We believe the best way to do this is by building a tool that democratises great HR for small businesses.

About Charlie

We’re Charlie and we exist to Make Work Better. We believe the best way to do this is by building a tool that democratises great HR for small businesses.

We’re looking for a Full Stack Rails Developer to join our growing software development team - and help us deliver a great product and user experience to our thousands of small business customers.

Come on and join us to make work better!

What is a \"Full Stack Developer III\"

We have a transparent career progression framework at Charlie. IC1 is a junior developer, IC4 is a senior developer, and IC levels 2 and 3 cover that middle area. For this role we’re interested in your specific Rails Frontend skills more than your seniority, so we’ve opted to offer interviews to people who fall within level 2 and level 3.

In This Role You Will

As a Full Stack Developer you’ll be responsible for:

• Building and improving Charlie, a modern Rails app that’s a joy to work on


• Using our design system to ship functional and beautiful features


• Being part of a cross-functional team with other developers and product managers


• Working with developers of all experience levels, with opportunities to learn and share learnings

Requirements

You must have:

• Professional experience with Ruby on Rails


• Experience building web apps “HTML over the wire”


• Knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript


• Enthusiasm for collaborating with and helping others


• Self-awareness and humility – you know that honest feedback is how you grow, and you’re not afraid to ask for help.

Let us know if you have: (all of these are desirable, but none are required)

• Experience working on SaaS products


• Built web apps with the help of a design system


• Worked with Stimulus and/or Turbo


• Knowledge of web accessibility standards

We will still consider applications even if you don't meet every single one of the above requirements, so don't be put off if you don't match them absolutely perfectly!

This is a permanent full-time role. We cannot offer visa sponsorship and you must be able to work in the UK.

The Way We Work

How We're Crafting Ownership, Belonging And Structured Flexibility

• A team of 39 that genuinely enjoy spending time together, with regular in-person and remote events to foster connection


• 9 day fortnights; our adjusted work week. We have every other Friday off work


• Hybrid-first approach; we optimise for office and remote working to be valued equally, and to be equally valuable


• Live anywhere in the UK; we have 5 set days per year that we require the team to be together in our London office, but you have the flexibility to live anywhere in the UK


• 90 bookable “nomad working” days outside of the UK in any timezone each year


• An amazing office space in East London's pet-friendly Second Home, and membership access to their wider London and LA locations.


• “Exploration days” when you can work on whatever across the company


• We have review cycles 2x a year using our transparent career progression framework, and dedicated personal development time

Compensation Package

• A benchmarked salary from £60,500 based on your level within our progression framework

Benefits

• £750 yearly Work Your Way Budget (to put toward things like travel to London for company events, getting your home office setup and your L&D)


• Access to our Learn You Way Fund (a company-wide fund that folks can apply to bolster their Work Your Way budget for L&D purposes


• £30 monthly wellbeing Budget


• Private Health Insurance through Vitality


• 25 days annual leave + public holidays


• 4 bookable “Personal days” per year for when you can’t bring your full self to work


• A sabbatical of up to one month paid at 50% of salary, for every 3.5 years worked at Charlie.


• Enhanced Equal Parental Leave policy

Equal Opportunities Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and believe in the power of a diverse, inclusive team.

We welcome all applications from all suitably qualified people, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion / belief, sexual orientation or age.

Please let us know if you require anything which would enable your success throughout our interview process.