Senior Software Engineer II London or remote (UK or EU timezone)

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer to join our product engineering team and build the world's best childcare service.

We work in small squads, are big on autonomy, care about quality and the engineering practices that make that work. 

Most of our stack is Ruby - knowing this will help, but it's not a must - we just want the best software engineers.

If you are the sort of person with a track record of seeing how software and systems thinking can really impact a business. Who thrives in an environment that loves to see you succeed. This is the position for you.

What we want this role to do:

Be pushy about producing well crafted reliable software.

Innovate and experiment, at pace.

Work with super bright, less experienced team members and accelerate their careers (and the squads’ capability)

Be a major contributor to the technical and product vision for your squad.

About the team

The product and engineering team is composed of small squads focussed on different parts of the domain. With a fourth squad made up of  Manish (Chief Product Officer), James (CTO) and Michael (Head of Engineering) working to create an environment for squads to flourish.

Culture-wise, like the rest of Koru Kids, there is a high degree of openness and transparency. Squad members work together as much as possible and across disciplines. Engineers are experienced with pairing, test automation and have a disciplined approach to incidents. At the end of every week, we join the rest of the company to showcase and celebrate what we’ve accomplished.

From a tech perspective, it’s Ruby (on Rails), JS (React) for the main platform - hosted on Heroku with GCP bits for serverless, pub-sub and data warehouse. We’ve also got an app that’s built in React native.

About You

You have led software projects of various sizes in the past, capable of breaking down nebulous problems into manageable pieces with your fellow team members

Track record of making a difference with software solutions that have created opportunities at company level.

You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and are therefore passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools.

Healthy disrespect of processes over just doing the right thing.

You are customer-centric and work well with product managers, getting actively involved in strategy formation and customer and market research.

You have examples of where you have developed other people in your team 

You put the squad before yourself and the business before the squad - it’s not about personal recognition.

Bonus points for experience in childcare or marketplace technology business

Important things to know...

Timing: We'd like to have the right person join by the end of March but we can wait a little longer if we need to.

Flexibility: The role is full time but can be done flexibly. We welcome parents and would love to discuss any working arrangements that make it possible for you to be part of our team.

Salary: This role is a senior engineer level II, which is the level above senior engineer (we need to work on our naming!). The salary range for this role is £80,000-100,000, depending on experience. We also have some awesome benefits — parents, among these is the ability to have a Koru Kids nanny for half price!

Location: You can do this role from anywhere in the UK and earn the same salary as you would if you were in London (where we are based). We welcome applications from people living outside London. Outside the UK is more complicated as it has tax and other implications, so we are less likely to hire someone living outside the UK.