You’ll play a key role as part of our Engineering Team, taking responsibility and ownership over delivering a seamless user experience for new users as they join the Hnry platform. You’ll be expected to take ownership of the strategic technical direction of the Hnry platform, mixing being hands-on writing code alongside working collaboratively with other engineers to drive feature delivery.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Engaging with customers and all members of the business to actively identify problems and propose solutions
• Thinking strategically about the future direction of your areas of the feature set, and working with other Technical Owners to collaborate and align
• Working alongside other engineers to make sure we are providing our customers with the best on-boarding experience with Hnry, whether they are new to self-employment, or whether they already use alternative systems
• Taking technical accountability for creating seamless user experiences
• Take responsibility for delivering functionality from concept through to production release and post-release maintenance
• Ensuring you, and those around you follow best practices in building robust and reliable software
• Produce work that meets the expected level of test coverage and improve test coverage across the existing codebase
• Provide detailed code reviews to colleagues, sharing your knowledge and ensuring that standards are maintained
• Design the architecture of new features and present this back to the team for feedback
• Mentor and provide support to other members of the team
• Collaborate with and support other members of the wider Hnry team

How we work

• We follow agile practices, delivering improvements iteratively in small chunks. We track the impact of our work and measure ourselves on results, not the amount of code written.
• We’re growing fast, and are focused on building a well designed, scalable & robust platform. In some areas of the work (e.g. payment processing) there is very little margin for error.
• Our technology platform is built in Ruby on Rails, and we also use a bunch of AWS services (via Terraform), Postgres, Docker, and a little bit of React.
• We have automated tests, continuous deployment, and release to production multiple times per day.
• We review each others code, and set aside time for hacking on experimental features, refactoring and/or learning new things.
• We work hard and finish on time, no crazy hours.

You will:

• Have experience with Ruby on Rails, with a mixture of React components and plain JavaScript
• Have a good understanding of front-end technologies
• Care about writing clean, maintainable and efficient code, and improving existing code, both for your peers and future you
• Be confident using distributed development tools such as GitHub and Slack
• Have an understanding of test/behaviour-driven development, cross-browser compatibility issues
• Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
• Be comfortable with numbers, not scared of some algebra and basic statistics concepts
• Be able to take complex problems, break them down, and build robust solutions
• Approach problems with a curious mindset and empathy for the end user, always considering the impact of changes
• Actively monitor systems, identify problems and propose solutions
• Have excellent communication and collaboration skills — we work together and succeed as a team
• Have experience with automated testing
• Enjoy discussions about software/product design and crafting solutions

Bonus points for the following:

• Experience building large scale systems
• Experience being self-employed (freelancing, contracting etc) in any industry/profession

Benefits:

• $50 monthly staff wellness benefit
• Additional day of annual leave for your birthday
• Gifts of share options for high performing staff
• Continuous remuneration review cycles (pay rises for high performers aren’t reserved for ‘annual reviews’)
• A clear focus on professional development, with encouragement to attend training courses, conferences etc - all during work time