Senior Software Engineer Product Development

What you’ll be doing

• Work with product managers and UX researchers to provide technical input on new development. Our engineering and product teams work together closely to make sure we are building the right thing and building it right.
• Write high quality frontend and backend code, mainly in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Write automated tests. We rely heavily on automated testing to catch regressions.
• Take your code through to production. We practise DevOps, with the support of our operations team, and expect engineers to take responsibility for getting their code out to production and making sure it is working properly.
• Participate in code review. All our changes go through GitHub pull requests with code review.
• Participate in our support rotation. All engineers rotate through providing second line support for our product during working hours (currently ~1 day per month).
• Write documentation and detailed pull request / commit messages. 
• Understand and avoid security pitfalls. Security is important to us, and we expect everyone to be aware of secure development practices.
• Engage with our software development process, and particularly retrospectives. We hold regular retrospectives to improve our process, which is based on six-week cycles followed by a two-week wrap-up and planning period.
• Work with your engineering manager and your peers to develop your personal and professional skills. We believe strongly in creating a safe space for learning and feedback. You will have regular 1:1s with your manager to discuss progression against our career ladder. 

Benefits

• Remote and flexible working.
• We'll provide a new Mac, Windows or Linux laptop, along with a stipend for other equipment
• We provide a training budget; many of our staff choose to attend relevant industry conferences or buy training materials
• At least once a year, we meet in-person at an expenses-paid company or departmental retreat
• We're substantially open source, and your work will often be released as open source code.
• We run two biweekly internal seminar series (‘Show and Tell’ and ‘Wisdom Wednesdays’) with short talks from staff about their work or personal projects, new technologies and techniques.