Senior Fullstack Engineer (6 Month FTC)

Butternut Box; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A pet food company in the UK is seeking a Frontend Developer to join their Product Engineering team. This role involves building and enhancing customer-facing products using technologies like Ruby on Rails and React JS. The ideal candidate will work collaboratively with engineers and designers, ensuring quality code and optimal product delivery. Benefits include generous holiday allowances, learning budgets, and flexible working hours.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Paid 'paws' days

Learning & development budget

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working hours

Private Medical Insurance

Discounted gym access

Qualifications

• Proficiency in frontend development technologies.
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus.
• Commitment to code quality and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship customer-facing products.
• Contribute to architecture and development direction.
• Work across the stack and learn new technologies.

Skills

Frontend development

Ruby on Rails

React JS

Typescript

SASS

Tools

Heroku

AWS

Headless CMS experience

Job description

Overview

As part of the Product Engineering team, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers and stakeholders to help solve our customers' problems and directly impact their (and their dog's) daily lives.

In this role, you can expect to:

• Ship customer-facing products constantly.
• Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the team to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
• Work across the stack (Ruby on Rails, React JS, Typescript, NextJS, SASS) to deliver quality, maintainable code. This role will be more focused on the Frontend side of things but a willingness to pick up and learn technologies like Ruby on Rails is required.
• Collaborate and learn with other team members via pair programming, mentoring, code reviews, and technical talks.
• Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.

Technology and Tools

• Ruby on Rails
• NextJS/ React.js
• Typescript
• Heroku/AWS
• Headless CMS experience is a plus

About Butternut

At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid

As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.

Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders hand-delivered the first Butternut Box; we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. To do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.

What we offer

• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid "paws" days per year
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Butternut Box employee discount
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Co-working office space
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through My Gym Discounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more…)

Equal Opportunity and Inclusion

• Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
• We are committed to doing business in a way that supports our community, our planet and our business, and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
• We are building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best work of your career.

#LI-Hybrid

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