Company Description
This
is a unique opportunity to join a founding team and impact every renter
in the UK through exciting and highly rewarding work.
We
expect more people renting than ever before. That’s why we believe
renting should be more affordable and accessible. We are a young and
innovative startup company solving an affordability problem by offering
deposit-free renting to millions of Tenants across the UK - with lots
more exciting stuff to come.
We
have built a core team and a product we are proud of, raised
significant start capital and partnered with UK's largest independent
letting agency.
Job Description
Our
company was founded at the beginning of 2017, you’ll be joining the
team of three founders. We’re about to go live with our first major
client. In preparation to growth after that we’re looking to hire
engineer #1. Day to day you’ll be working with CTO building our web app,
APIs, infrastructure and helping to grow our team.
For the
first version of our platform we’ve decided to keep our product as
simple as possible. It’s small monolithic application written in python
(django), deployed on aws, using circleCI for builds, our infra is
defined with terraform, we’re using postgresql for data store and pure
html/js for frontend. Experience with specific technologies we use right
now is not required as long as you have worked with more than one stack
during your career. We’re planning to keep open mind when selecting
tech for new parts of our product. We’re planning to keep open mind when
selecting tech for new parts of our product. Some of direction we’re
considering are elixir, go, clojure.
Qualifications
Responsibilities
design, build, and maintain new features for our web application and APIs
architectural planning (inc. security & data)
define engineering standards, tooling
help to hire new team members
We’re looking for someone who
is an experienced developer who have worked on live web applications before
have great backend skills and given our small team is also comfortable with basic frontend work
thinks every good feature deserves a test or two
has
opinions on product and system design. You’ll have a chance to make a
lot of decisions that will help us build secure, scalable product that
will delight our users
