Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

Breakroom; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 93,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech company based in London is seeking a motivated backend developer to join their growing team. You will be involved in building web applications and internal tools, contributing to a collaborative team environment. Ideal candidates should have extensive experience in backend languages and web development frameworks. Competitive salary and exceptional benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Equity options

Private health and dental insurance

Flexible working hours

25 days paid holiday

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building software for the web.
• Experience on a consumer product and balancing user needs.
• Experience with SEO, user experience, user research, or accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Designing, writing, shipping and maintaining code.
• Building internal tools and shaping processes.
• Collaborating with product managers and designers.

Skills

Motivation to work towards mission

Web development knowledge

Experience with backend languages (Elixir, Ruby, Python, Node.JS)

Experience with web frameworks (Phoenix, Rails, Django)

Experience with React-style frameworks

Managing CSS/SASS

Collaboration with designers

Communication of technical ideas

Job description

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Who We Are:

We're Breakroom. Our mission is to turn every job into a good job. We're building a community powered rating for every job in the world, and publishing it all online.

We're making sure everyone has access to great information to power the next step in their career, and we're supporting employers to create good jobs along the way. More than 2,000,000 people have taken the Breakroom Quiz, and we've rated more than 18,000 employers across the UK and USA.

We're building a world-class, inclusive team and we welcome applications from all groups.

Who are we looking for?

We've recently launched Breakroom in the US, and we're growing our team to help us scale up. We're looking for people who want to join an early stage engineering and product team as we develop in a new market. You will be responsible for:

• Designing, writing, shipping and maintaining code
• Building internal tools and shaping our processes
• Contributing expertise to decisions that guide the future of the product and the team

Our platform is built on Elixir, using the Phoenix web framework, on top of Postgres, Redis, Google PubSub and OpenSearch. We love it, and think you will too. We don't expect you to have experience writing Elixir/Phoenix and we'll support you to learn it on the job.

How we work:

We use a lightweight agile approach to product development, leaning heavily on data for decision making, and always centering our users' needs. We're a very collaborative team - you can expect to be working closely with designers and product managers as well as your fellow engineers. To support collaborative working, we work on-site at our office in Shoreditch, London, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays every week. We ship changes many times a day, and encourage engineers to be part of the full lifecycle of their work.

Our hiring process

Our interview process is all done remotely via video call. All candidates at Breakroom will first have:

• An introduction call with one of our Talent Acquisition team
• A screening call with one of the Breakroom engineers

Followed by:

• A 1 hour take home exercise to be submitted to us ahead of your technical interview
• A technical interview which will consist of reviewing and discussing the take home exercise, collaborating on an engineering problem, and other general technical questions
• A 'ways of working' interview with two people from other teams in Breakroom. This is the same interview for everyone regardless of the position being applied to

All being well, we'll make you an offer!

Requirements

You'll need to:

• Be motivated to work towards our mission
• Have a thorough working knowledge of how to build for the web
• Have in depth experience with a backend language such as Elixir, Ruby, Python or Node.JS
• Have experience with a full stack web framework such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails or Django
• Have experience with React style frameworks (such as Preact) and also plain JavaScript for the web
• Have experience managing CSS/SASS
• Have experience collaborating closely with designers
• Had responsibility for developing complex features/services
• Be comfortable working with SQL databases
• Be able to effectively communicate complex technical ideas with people across the business
• Have experience working in cross functional teams
• Be able to participate in supporting Breakroom out of hours

Some extra things that would help but aren't critical:

• 5+ years of experience building software for the web
• Experience working on a consumer product, balancing meeting user needs with technical effort
• Experience writing Elixir or another functional programming language
• An interest in SEO, user experience, user research, or accessibility
• Experience working in a fast-paced small team
• Experience participating in operations for a high-traffic website
• Experience or an interest in mentoring and supporting other engineers
• Experience leading technical decisions in a cross functional team

Benefits

As part of our team you'll enjoy:

• Salary £65,000 - £92,500 plus competitive bonus
• Equity
• Exceptional benefits package including:
• Private health and dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Company Pension scheme including employer match
• Mental health resources, financial and family planning, wellness and lifestyle stipend and more
• Flexible working hours
• Ability to work in London office Tuesdays and Wednesdays
• 25 days paid holiday

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, colour, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity or gender reassignment. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application.