Telecommunication Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning UK proptech scale-up and leader in flexible living technology solutions. Our clients include CA Ventures, JLL, Scape, iQ, Greystar, Europa Capital, Aberdeen Standard Investments and many others. Lavanda is a SaaS technology platform first and foremost. More than 50% of the company works in product, design and engineering, and we aim to excel at everything we build. We prize creativity, engineering excellence, a strong customer focus and problem-solving through great design. We are well funded and backed by leading venture capital investors, and we are scaling the business beyond the UK into Europe and further afield. Our people are at the heart of what we do, and we welcome applications from groups historically underrepresented in tech. We invite you to join our stellar team and help realise our vision.

Our platform processes millions of messages between guests and hosts, facilitating smooth communication about accommodations and stay details. Questions range from logistical queries such as booking entry to policies like bringing a pet. Lavanda is committed to providing guests with the best possible experience, including rapid responses to inquiries.

To enhance our guest experience further, we are seeking a skilled Node.js Developer to lead the development of our in‑house conversational messaging platform. This role will focus on integrating advanced AI capabilities, including GPT-4, to deliver fast and precise responses to guest inquiries and improve overall communication efficiency.

• Design and develop a robust conversational messaging platform using Node.js, enhancing it with AI technologies like GPT-4 to automate responses.
• Work collaboratively and independently within a team of three developers focused on various aspects of our product and platform.
• Take responsibility for individual feature development while contributing to team discussions on code reviews and system architecture.
• Coordinate with the Head of Engineering to plan and execute the development roadmap for the messaging system.
• Implement best practices in code quality, testing, and maintainability.

• Proven experience with Node.js in a production environment.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript.
• Experience with NestJS is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and their integration into development processes.
• A strong commitment to testing and quality assurance.
• Experience or familiarity with service-oriented architecture, preferably using Kafka as an event bus.

• Competitive salary + potential for equity.
• Flexible working is actively embraced + remote first.
• Choose your own tech – get the equipment you love using at work.
• Personal Development budget, courses and plans tailored to you and your role.
• Generous holiday allowance, including the full Christmas to New Year as a break on us.
• Join a highly motivated, engaged team of extremely smart, creative and talented people.