Software Engineer - Full-stack

Our mission is to unlock the potential of business and government working better, together.

Comp. range: £55-70k salary with an additional options equity grant worth 30-50% of salary

Working in a small, cross-functional product team you will take part in all phases of product development: advising the product owner (our CPO Carsten) & lead designer on the technical aspects of planned features, designing architecture and discussing it with other engineers, implementing it and rolling out to users in production.

You will have opportunities to develop new features in our SaaS web application and its backing service infrastructure.

You will take part in designing & developing the software architecture of our platform suitable for future growth.

You will help us build a global public sector database by combining procurement data, news sources, government spend and planning information and many other data sources and develop a state-of-the-art search engine for this data.

You will work in an environment that encourages constant learning and growth, whether it’s trying out new technologies, sharing knowledge or best practices across the team or learning skills from other colleagues.

Front-end written in TypeScript (we types!) using React and Ant Design components.

We're transitioning our legacy Ruby on Rails web-app to a TypeScript backend using NestJS.

PostgreSQL is our main database but we use ElasticSearch for querying the procurement data.

We're currently running all of this on Kubernetes on AWS (all defined in Terraform).

Every change is reviewed and tested & later released using an automated process.

See more on our stackshare

3+ years of experience in a software engineering role

Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript

Experience with developing web UIs with React or similar technology

(Bonus) Knowledge of relational databases

(Bonus) Experience with applications running in the cloud and using modern DevOps tools

Effective communicator: Sharing complex ideas and presenting your work - both with to the engineering team and the wider Stotles team - is the core of our job.

Great at working with others, great at managing your time: As we’re a small team working on ambitious goals, effective teamwork is crucial. At the same time we expect everyone to manage their workload efficiently.

Focused on impact, not output: Always focused on the customer impact of what we’re building, using the best tool for the job and excited to learn new things in the process.

Ambitious curiosity: Eager to learn skills and technologies outside of your comfort zone, take ever more challenging tasks, and grow into a senior leadership role at Stotles.

Dependability & detail-oriented: Trusted to deliver on the commitments you make to the team, from the big picture results to the nuanced details.

Most important, we're looking for people that are curious, ambitious and love to learn new things, so if for any reason you don't fit our requirements but are passionate about our vision, don't hesitate to apply!

A 15-20 minute intro call This is an informal chat so you can learn more about the company and the role and you can tell us more about yourself - your experience and what you want to achieve in the next role.

A 60 minute technical discussion (system design/no live coding) During this call with two other engineers, you will discuss a technical problem that is related to Stotles’ product domain.

A 2-3 hour technical take-home task You will be given access to a small full-stack JS/TS codebase. You will have to make changes to an existing frontend & backend that displays procurement data. You can complete the task at your own pace and time - we only ask you to send back the git repo with the code.

A 60 minute discussion of your solution In this call you will discuss your submission with two other engineers and Carsten, our CPO and one of the co-founders. We will talk about your coding decisions and possible extensions of the app both from the technical and product/UX point of view.