Senior Full Stack Developer

Senior Full Stack Software Developer at My Pocket Skill

📍 London
📅 Fulltime (could be P/T initially)
💵Package: £130,000+

Senior Full Stack Developer

Join us as Senior Full Stack Developer in an AI-powered Fintech/Edtech platform and see your work really come to life as you build software for a leading fintech business driving innovation in its field. You will be instrumental in uplifting thousands of people as the systems you create facilitate life changing real world opportunities.

You will participate in all areas of engineering and development, writing high-quality code and collaborating with the wider team to ensure our digital systems provide an exceptional experience for our customers. Your technical insights and contributions will be highly valued and will influence key business decisions. This role provides the perfect blend of technical challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact.

You will be joining at a pivotal time for the business. Our proposed package aligns you to the success of the business, with equity options and the realistic prospect of tripling the value of those options over the next 12-months.

About My Pocket Skill  and our mission

My Pocket Skill  empowers Gen Z's to become more financially capable by matching 13-25-year-olds with paid opportunities and enabling them to save towards their goals. We help teens to Earn, Save and Learn about money.

We are scaling our digital platform and to aid our next phase of product development and growth, we are looking to bring an additional senior hire to grow our engineering function and deliver on an ambitious tech road map.

Our culture

We are ambitious and committed and have a supportive, growth focussed working culture. We care deeply about our work having a positive impact on our customers, colleagues, communities and the environment. We promote creativity and adventure in everything we do. You can read more about our culture and values here .

Key Information

• Location:
  
  Hybrid (Currently min 2 days per week in London Office)
• Hours:
  
  40hrs per week (Normally 9:00-18:00 GMT/BST)
• Final date to receive applications:
  Assessing candidates on an ongoing basis

Your mission

Develop scalable, stable and efficient digital systems that enhance our platform. Write high-quality code for tech products that improve customer experience, embed AI-enhancements, reduce customer service issues and reduce costs. Be detail-conscious, able to support technical decision-making to keep progress on track.

Your objectives

You’ll be working on a project where everything is hosted in AWS and we have a lightweight automated deployment process. You’ll work alongside a very small team, meaning you’ll have loads of responsibility and will make a huge impact on our architecture processes.

Your responsibilities

As a company we focus on objectives and results with individuals driving the decisions on the best ways to achieve them. We have included this list of responsibilities to give you an idea of the starting point for this position; the exact responsibilities will develop over time.

• Backend Development:
  Confident development and engineering of scalable, cloud-based solutions accessible via web and mobile apps.
• Scalability and Connectivity: building systems designed to handle sudden peaks in concurrent users trying to read and write data simultaneously; and to accommodate for poor network connectivity.
• Coding & Testing:
  Write high-quality, performant, well organised, maintainable code with a focus on QA and testing, as well as code review of others work. Share and adapt reusable patterns and components
• Cloud Technologies: familiarity in working with cloud-based technologies.
• Code Management & Dev Ops:
  Support the establishment and maintenance of best practices for code development, version control and deployment, contributing to CI/CD pipelines and other Dev Ops processes.
• Product Quality:
  Contribute to ensuring the overall quality, accessibility, stability, and security of digital systems and products, in alignment with both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Communication &
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Maintain transparent communication about project and task statuses, milestones…