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Senior Full Stack or Backend Developer in London

miDrive

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Full-Time
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Job Description

miDrive is re-inventing how people start driving. Having disrupted learning to drive, miDrive’s next set of products focus on re-inventing insurance.

Based in Shoreditch, London, we use tech, data, and attitude to remove friction and add delight. From gamified apps to GPS lesson tracking and dynamic instructor pricing, miDrive is first-time driving as it should be. Over 300,000 young people in the UK have already gained their independence using miDrive technology.

Founded in 2013, we are a team of around 20 talented and smart individuals on a big mission. We’ve raised £5m to date from a respected group of well-connected and supportive investors, including Holiday Extras & Initial Capital.

Requirements

Based in our Shoreditch, miDrive is seeking a talented Backend Web Developer to join our team and make a major contribution to our success.

You’ll be working in a close, multi-disciplined team, you’ll be encouraged to learn and share ideas, taking concepts from prototype to go-live, helping to shape future design and development decisions within the team.

You will design scalable product architecture and build systems and services that have immediate impact on our learners and instructors.


Our Stack

  • NodeJS
  • Express / Seneca
  • RethinkDB / PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Heroku

What We’re Looking For

  • At least 3 years professional experience (ideally working with production JavaScript)
  • Experience ideally using NodeJS in a production environment.
  • Experience with JSON based document storage. (MongoDB, ElasticSearch, etc.)
  • Comfortable working with multiple projects across entire technology stack.
  • Ability to communicate problems and solutions with technical & non-technical peers.
  • Ability to work in a fast paced environment, to a high standard using best practices.

Bonus Points:

  • Experience with JS testing frameworks (Mocha, Ava, Jest etc.).
  • Experience with AWS / Heroku or other PaaS solution.
  • Experience with creative software (Adobe Creative Suite / Sketch).
  • Active GitHub profile.

Benefits

At miDrive, we believe it’s the people that work here that makes us successful. We are a start-up with big ambitions and we work hard so we want to give our people benefits that they really want. We’re constantly adding to this as new people join but here’s a list of the sorts of things you can expect:

  • TGIMonday Breakfasts, Juice Wednesdays, Happy Hour Thursdays
  • Fun social events - recent adventures have included escape rooms, comedy clubs, and visits to high up places (e.g. Shard, SkyGarden)
  • Regular guest speakers, networking events and ping pong (anytime)
  • Free beer, cider and prosecco all on tap!
  • Up to 2 weeks unpaid leave per year to pursue personal projects (additional to standard holiday allowance)
  • miDrive stock options

 

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