Senior Software Engineer

Seedrs ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Seedrs is the leading equity crowdfunding platform and the most active funder of private companies in the UK, with over 790M invested into campaigns and more than 950 deals funded. We allow all types of investors to invest as little or as much as they like in businesses they believe in and share in their success. And we allow ambitious businesses in all sectors to raise capital and build community through an efficient, online process. Seedrs HQ is in London, with offices in Lisbon, Amsterdam and Berlin. We are backed by top-tier institutional investors and VCs, as well as over 2,500 of our own users. Seedrs is experiencing exceptional growth and are looking for superstars to join our team. We have created a working environment which allows you to be yourself at work and be treated fairly, on the basis of your merits, abilities and potential. We recognise the benefits of having a diverse workforce and take steps to ensure that we endeavour to recruit from a wide pool of suitably qualified candidates. We live by core values, all of which operate to help us deliver company goals: Be entrepreneurial Think customer first Do the right thing We succeed as one team What you'll do: We want you to join our Investor team to help thousands of people find and invest in the right deals for them and trade on our rapidly expanding Secondary Market. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with roughly 6+ years of experience who is comfortable talking about high-level product concepts as well as deep technical details. We want someone who is excited about modern tech, code quality and scalable engineering. Our engineering teams own the entire product development lifecycle from idea inception and development, through to analysing success. So, expect to spend most of your time writing code. Additionally, around 25% of your time will be: architecture planning, talking to stakeholders and analysing your data metrics for success. As a senior engineer, we will expect you to play a big role in helping your team be as effective as possible. We want you to lead the technology decisions within the team, as well as developing our tech ecosystem across Seedrs. We also value the importance of coaching and developing our junior members, so we will expect you to act as a guide and role model. Our ideal engineer would have experience in our primary stack: * React * Ruby on Rails * NodeJS However, technology moves fast. If you believe that you can adapt and learn quickly, we will consider you without this direct experience. Candidates should be able to show and discuss some projects they have worked on. We want to see a deep understanding of the customer as well as technical prowess. If you have experience with AWS, Serverless or NextJS as well as an interest in fintech - that's a bonus! Salary and benefits: * You'll be working for one of the hottest startups in Europe with a top notch team. We don't compromise when it comes to hiring. * Competitive salary. * Employee share options. * Money to invest through the platform. * 25 days annual leave and Flexi Fridays. * Buy and sell holiday benefit. * Subsidised Gym or ClassPass membership. * Access to our Healthcare Cash Plan programme. * Discounted Smarterly ISA account. * Professional development. * Lunch and learn sessions. * Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption pay. * Enhanced Pension package. * Company offsites and Team socials. * Cheese day. * Great offices with free fruit, coffee and Friday drinks!