Fullstack Job: Senior Fullstack Engineer

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Company

Bark.com
United Kingdom

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Fullstack Job Details

About the role

We are looking for Senior Fullstack Engineers to join our growing team. You’ll become a core part of our growing, dynamic team which is responsible for scaling our existing platform from a monolith into a service oriented architecture, as well as building out new services for our expanding product offering.

You’ll be someone who loves innovating and problem solving, and gets a kick out of making systems work efficiently at an increasingly large scale. You’ll work across our tech stack to solve a variety of challenges from our back-end processes (Python), to our APIs (Python/PHP), to our front-end product (React, Typescript, Javascript).

We are in the middle of transforming and modernising our technology stack so you will need to be able to work with an older codebase and refactoring that into newer technologies. You will have the opportunity and be encouraged to contribute to new technology decisions, helping to shape our technology strategy, adapting our architecture as we grow.

Responsibilities

  • Translation of UX/UI designs into production quality product experiences, using our proposed Front End stack (React, Typescript)

  • Build elegant and performant APIs and Front End solution

  • Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications

  • Proactively propose and implement improvements to the codebase

  • Mentor other engineers to support their growth

  • Design and code solutions for systems with 1000s of transactions a second

  • Collaboration with product managers and designers to create prototypes necessary for usability evaluations, A/B and MVP testing and development specifications

Some of our benefits

  • Share options in a rapidly growing company whose founders have a proven track record and are Private Equity backed

  • Fully remote working

  • Private health insurance run by Aviva including dental cover

  • Personal annual L&D Budgets with £1,000 to spend on your development

  • Enhanced Gympass membership for all employees with access to mental health courses and fitness classes

  • Fully stocked kitchen and weekly team lunches

  • Financial advisor

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Regular wellness weeks with industry leading talks through to massages in the office

  • Being at the forefront of an industry with new and exciting problems to solve


Required skills and experience

  • 5+ years experience as a Full Stack Engineer working with PHP, Javascript and React

  • Experience building scaleable, high performing web applications

  • 2+ years recent experience working specifically with React

  • Production MySQL experience; strong SQL skills

  • Experience building, maintaining, testing and documenting APIs to be used by other developers both internally and externally

  • Strong organisational skills

  • Ability to achieve goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment


Desired skills and experience


  • Experience working on PHP with a Laravel/Lumen framework

  • Experience working with Python, particularly with FastAPI

  • Experience with JQuery

  • Experience migrating to a micro front end using React

  • Using Docker in production, ideally with Kubernetes or Fargate/ECS/EKS

  • Familiarity with the AWS ecosystem. Knowledge of SQS (or similar such as RabbitMQ), SNS (or Kafka), and how they are used

  • Experience with other data stores like ElasticSearch, MongoDB or similar