About Fat Llama
What
if owning things was no longer important? What if expensive, niche
items could be available to you in seconds? And what if you could
generate an extra income from your own belongings? At Fat Llama, we're
already bringing about that future. We believe that one day, owning
those things we only occasionally need will be as ridiculous as buying a
house every time you want to go on holiday.
Our
users enjoy on-demand access to anything from high-end cameras to
drones to campervans. As a result, they're doing, creating and achieving
incredible things every day. Income from rentals is changing the lives
of many of our lenders, too - whether it's paying their rent or allowing
them to drop corporate jobs and focus on passion projects.
The herd's growing fast, too. Last year we went through
Y Combinator and recently announced a
$10M raise from amazing investors to superpower our growth and focus on American expansion.
Our Technology
Technology
is at the heart of everything we do at Fat Lama, allowing us to solve a
problem that has never been solved before. Our whole team gets a say in
the product & tech roadmap, and our engineering team takes pride in
writing, testing and deploying new features on a daily basis.
Our
frontend web app is how the majority of our customers interact with Fat
Lama. Both borrowers and lenders use it to browse for items, manage
their rentals, and message other users. This means we are constantly
iterating on our existing features as well as adding new ones according
to customer feedback and our business strategy. Although you will
probably not work exclusively on the front end, your role will include
taking the lead on all things frontend, from building new features, to
optimising our React performance, to researching new CSS-in-JS solutions
for the product.
Our team takes pride in
owning our work truly end-to-end. We’re looking for people who can plan,
experiment, build, test, deploy, measure and iterate before calling it
done. As a small team, we try and build on the shoulders of giants,
which means that you’ll often find us working with the latest and
greatest technologies. Our web app is built in React, using both
server-side rendering and code-splitting to ensure quick page loads and
speedy transitions between pages. We're also exploring other front end
technologies like ReasonML and Elm.
If
you don’t feel like you fit all of these areas, don’t worry. We are
dedicated to the development of our team. Whether you’re a computer
science graduate, an artist or a bricklayer, as long as you’re also a
programmer, we’d love to hear from you.
Please note that the package for this role will include equity.
Applicants with more experience may want to consider applying for our senior software engineer role.
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We
are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national
origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status,
or disability status.
Bringing your whole Llama to work
We're
an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We
don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national
origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status,
or disability status.