Full Stack Developer

WHO WE ARE:

We're the tech team at Buyapowa, a marketing tech firm from London. We are a fully distributed team working remotely across Europe and also Vancouver. We're small and mighty, working on the most important projects in the business at all times. Delivering joy, productivity, and stability all at once.

We value:

Test driven excellence

Iteration, refactorings, and continuous improvement

Owning and supporting the things we build

Pragmatic technology choices

Customer centered thinking and goal orientation

Sustainable pace

We're hitting the next phase in our growth and so we're hiring in a number of roles. We need you to help take our product, and scale, to the next level.

THE ROLE

As a senior full-stack developer, you will join the team responsible for product development of our core products. These are high scale SPAs backed by one or more backend services. This includes the referral marketing technology embedded in client sites, as well as the CRM and CMS systems that support it.

We like choosing the right tool for the job, meaning you get to work with tools and methods you decide are right. We have a good mix of supporting existing apps, building new user experiences, and constantly delivering new features for our in-house team all with high quality feedback cycles.

Our tech stack is primarily React front ends backed by Ruby / Rails, Postgres, and Redis. We're running on Heroku and lower-level AWS services through Terraform to bring our platform to enterprise-level clients with high security and scale requirements. We love to keep it simple.

YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:

Design solutions from the ground up

Be part of a diverse team to see how diversity leads to high performing teams

Review code from other members of your team

Pair and learn with other members of your team

Troubleshoot

Take full responsibility for stories from inception to delivery

Work closely with Product managers and company wide stakeholders

Help your teammates improve in their skills and knowledge

YOU HAVE:

> 5 years Javascript (ES6 and Typescript) experience

> 5 years React experience include v18 and up

> 2 years of Ruby on Rails experience (.NET / Python experience is good too)

Comfort with build pipelines, continuous integration, and docker

Proficiency with Git source control

Strong HTML and CSS ability, including experience with Tailwind CSS

Good communication skills in written, verbal, and code

Knowledge of: sidekiq, rswag/openapi, tailwind, graphql, react hook form, react-query, terraform

WE'LL GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO:

Use a variety of technologies

Bring new suggestions to the table for evaluation and experimentation

Deliver business value to end users with cycle times measured in days and weeks, not months and quarters

Work at a sustainable pace so you can enjoy your productivity

Lead projects

WE'LL HELP YOU:

Ensure your work is challenging

Grow you to the next stage of your career

Impact the business in a meaningful way

Develop skills outside of pure tech

Support you in learning our systems

Give you the space to concentrate AND make sure you don't feel isolated

THE PROCESS

A quick chat with our recruitment team on the phone

Initial chat with our CTO on Google Meet

Technical interview with some members of the team

No whiteboard technical test

No take home code exercise

Questions on previous design challenges

Some technical questions for the basics

Final interview and catch up with CTO and anyone else you're interested in talking with

BENEFITS:

Learning & development. We'll give you the opportunity to learn, including a personal learning budget for your professional growth.

Ownership. We've got big plans and we want you to share in the upside. That's why you'll get to participate in a generous equity incentive plan.

Wellbeing. We're looking forward to seeing you grow in your professional life, but we also care about your wellbeing. That's why you'll receive an annual wellness budget, to spend just on you - no questions asked.

Work / life balance. Taking a break is super important to all of us. In fact, it's something that's gently encouraged, coaxed and nudged on a regular basis.

Remote-work ready. Our ethos is to prioritise remote working. While we have hubs and we love getting together, our priority is to invest in getting you set up to work remotely. So, whatever you need to be amazing, it's on us.

Family life. Being part of the Buyapowa family is important to us, but we know you have a life outside of our team, too. Whatever family / home life looks like to you, we offer flexible working.