Senior Full Stack Developer ( London based)

Overview

Key responsibilities

• Be responsible for removing roadblocks, ensuring processes are lean, efficient, and helping develop members.
• Help refactor and maintain our core systems to prepare them to scale.
• Develop features and improvements to the Nifty product in a secure, well-tested, and performant way that allows the platform to adapt and grow.
• Understand our core business objectives, then ideate and implement new features that will help us achieve our exciting goals to grow our customer base.
• Troubleshoot technical issues by leveraging your deep understanding of the systems and experience with technologies we leverage.
• Work collaboratively with other team members to build greenfield portions of the app.
• Help define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review.
• Provide mentorship for junior and intermediate engineers in your department to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers.
• Embrace our DevOps culture: you build it, you run it.
• Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels.

Required qualifications

• Have a strong technical background, including 5+ years of experience designing and engineering large scale systems.
• Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones.
• Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise.
• Are comfortably organized amongst chaos.
• Are a broad thinker and have the capability to see the potential impact of decisions across the wider business.
• Be familiar with our tech stack
• TypeScript, React, styled-component
• Python
• PostgreSQL, BigQuery, MySQL
• Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, pytes
• AWS, GCP
• Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, GitHub, CircleCI
• Next.js (Preferred)
• Embrace differences and know that when we can be ourselves at work, we are happier, more motivated, and creative. We want to be able to bring our whole selves to work, have our own perspectives and know that we belong. As such, through your behaviors at work, we expect you to reflect and actively sustain a healthy engineering environment that looks like this:
• A wide range of voices heard to the benefit of all
• Teams that are clearly happy, engaged, and laugh together
• Perceivable safety to have an opinion or ask a question No egos - people listen to and learn from others at all levels, with strong opinions held loosely