Senior Backend Engineer
London, United Kingdom +1 · Remote
Senior · Full time
£80-100K
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Posted 2 years ago
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10/12 on The Pragmatic Engineer Test Help us support as many people as possible with therapy - https://bit.ly/spill-mission

The company and product

We're working to solve emotional pain in the workplace. We’ve developed a Slack/MS Teams integration that allows our clients’ employees to access therapy in a few clicks. It is easy to access and designed to be used by everyone - user-centered design is very important to us. We’re trusted by the likes of Typeform, Depop, and HelloFresh as well as many other progressive employers you can see listed on our site, and we're funded by Passion Capital, Ada Ventures, and Seedcamp.

The job and the work

At Spill, we believe that engineers build better products when deeply intertwined with product. You should care deeply about our users problems and want to be involved in the process of solving them. As an engineer at Spill, you will be talking to our users on calls most weeks along with our product team. You'll work with the product team to create the spec, before owning the feature development from start to finish.

You will work closely with the other engineers on solving difficult problems such as how to scale services as our user base grows, improve performance and reliability or build new exciting prototypes. You will be expected to maintain high-quality standards by mentoring others on the team through pairing and code reviews.

Our Tech Stack

  • NodeJS
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Postgres
  • GraphQL

The ideal candidate

✅ should have a strong background as a Software Engineer

✅ should have specialised knowledge in building backend services and architecture

✅ should be comfortable working in a team that deals with ambiguity

✅ should be great at collaborating with users through asking questions and communicating clearly

✅ should care about putting users first

✅ should have experience building software at a larger startup or scale-up

✅ should care about shipping high quality code and maintaining standards throughout the team and wider engineering org

The pay and the benefits

🚀 The salary for this full-time role is £80-100K + 0.3%-0.5% stock options 

🌴  30 days holiday

🌞  Spill bank holidays

💛  free therapy & mental health days

🎂  birthday off work

☀️  company work aways (on pause due to COVID)

For more on how we work at Spill and what to expect, take a look at our careers page.

The application process

Check out our blog on the engineering interview process here

30 min video call with Head of Engineering to find out more about each other

a take home coding task

coding task review call with a couple of engineers

values fit interview

 

Don’t meet all of the role requirements? 

Don’t worry! We care about outcomes rather than tickbox criteria, and it’s often the case that the perfect person for the role has a CV that looks a little different.

Research (by Harvard University 🤓) shows that women are particularly likely to second-guess themselves and not apply — so if you’re worried you don’t meet all the criteria, get in touch anyhow and let us do the worrying.

At Spill, we are committed to building a company that includes people from a variety of different backgrounds. We're particularly interested in hearing from people from typically underrepresented groups in the tech industry💛

Spill
Spill is a startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being.
Size:  1-10 employees
Funding Level:  Early-stage Startup
Total Amount Raised:  $3.5 M
Year Founded:  2017
Investors
Seedcamp
Passion Capital
The Future Fund
Ascension
Ada Ventures
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10.5/12 on The Pragmatic Engineer Test. Missing: #4: testing is not yet part of the process #12: it exists, but is informal currently.
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