Software engineer

At Surfboard we’re making work more human. Few companies have the right tools to manage their teams in a way that promotes job fulfilment and provides excellent customer service and our team want to change this.


The role

  • Be a core member of our team building our early product and platform, from inception to deployment, from frontend to backend.
  • Contribute to best practices for our CI/CD process.
  • Shape and embody the technical culture, shaping the team to grow in the healthiest way possible.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as product management, and design to deliver user-focused and delightful experiences.

Our tech stack

Heroku, GCP, NodeJS, Typescript, NestJS, React, Postgres.


Location

Spitalfields, London / Hybrid


You will be a good fit if you…

  • Are interested in joining a mission-oriented startup at the earliest possible stage where you can have incredible impact.
  • You’re a product-minded engineer with at least 3 years of experience in full-stack web development with a strong focus on JavaScript-based technologies such as React and NodeJS.
  • Are interested in helping shape the technical direction of the company, including technological and architectural choices.
  • Enjoy collaborating with Product managers and Designers to craft effective and delightful experiences.
  • You like to keep things simple so we focus on the product and not in over-engineered solutions.

Some challenges we need to solve…

  • How do we handle concurrent edits when multiple managers edit a schedule?
  • How do we ingest 3rd party data quick enough to offer nearly real time reporting?
  • How do we improve performance when rendering hundreds of agent’s schedules?

What you’ll get

  • Competitive salary
    • 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
    • Hybrid model to suit you – predominantly from home with the opportunity to work in our office space in East London
    • Great exposure and ability to impact a fast-growing, mission-driven start-up
    • £500/yr professional development budget

    The process

    • Get to know each other Initial phone screen with our Engineering Leads & Head of Product (30 mins).
    • Technical challenge. Either take-home or via video call (1-2 hours).
    • Team interview. Speak with a few more of the team. They’ll want to know what it’s like to work with you, and you’ll have opportunity to really dig into what life’s like at Surfboard (30-45 mins).
    • Final round. Meet Natasha, our Founder and CEO (30 mins).
    • Offer! We’ll get back to you ASAP, and set up a call to go through the details of your offer and answer any final questions you may have.

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