Software Engineer

Popmenu; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Are you ready to build software loved by thousands of restauranteurs and used by millions of people every day? Do you thrive in a collaborative environment where you understand how your team's contributions align with your company's goals? Will you raise the bar of those around you? If you answered yes to all these questions, Popmenu could be the place for you!

About this Opportunity:

Popmenu is looking for a Software Engineer to deliver innovative technology solutions to thousands of restauranteurs and millions of diners, and to scale our product as we become the must-have technology for restaurants. Our ideal candidate is familiar with Ruby on Rails and React, or similar frameworks and languages, and they will have worked in a fast-growing organization, or have meaningfully contributed to software with tens of thousands of daily users. This person will have experience with cross-functional delivery teams and is an eager collaborator with their product organization.

What You will be Responsible for:

1. Expressing your mastery: You will emphasize changeability, simplicity, testability, and polish in order to quickly deliver exemplary code that performs well and that your less experienced teammates will learn from.
2. Setting an Example for Team Collaboration: You will be on a cross-functional delivery team composed of Designers, Product Managers, and other Engineers, with QA support. You will assist in building shared understanding of goals, and you put your team's success before your own.
3. Improving our Ecosystem: We have an incredible set of tools and practices, but it can always be better. We want you to utilize your experience to find opportunities for your delivery team, and for the engineering department to improve. If the team is bought in, you will take ownership and make your initiatives real.
4. Raising the Bar: Your more junior teammates and peers will consistently show improvement based on opportunities that you help them identify. You will guide them to solutions rather than give them answers.

Bottom Line:

You will write software that meets the expectations of quality for Popmenu Engineering, and you will hold your teammates accountable to do the same. You will collaborate cross-functionally, always trusting your teammates to have the best intentions, and you will buy in to playing as a team to win.

Requirements:

What You Bring to the Table:

1. You have 2+ years of experience in a high-growth or enterprise software development environment, with a degree in Computer Science or years of equivalent experience.
2. You have worked extensively on cross-functional software delivery teams, and you can collaboratively decompose real-world software problems.
3. You are familiar with scaling your team's software, and you understand how to monitor application performance and bug incidence.
4. You have great communication skills and can collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to help decompose problems and facilitate technical discussion.
5. You are at least familiar with Ruby on Rails, plus JavaScript/React, and you have 1+ years of experience in those or similar dynamic languages and frameworks.
6. Tests are part of your code. You use tools like RSpec, Jest, and Cypress to help define the interfaces of your software components and to efficiently understand and solve problems.
7. You are familiar with Cypress or other automated end-to-end testing tools.
8. You are not a DBA, but you are not afraid to make changes to production databases, and you know when it's time to stop relying on ActiveRecord generated queries.