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Job details
* 👩💻 Role: Lead Full Stack Engineer
* 🕕 Job Type: Full-time or Fixed Contract
* 📍 Location: Hybrid, Central London office 2 days a week (Wednesday + Thursday)
* 🎓 Experience: 5+ years of full-stack development experience
* Salary: £70,000 - £110,000 (+ equity)
* Start date: 1st April (flexible, depending on notice period)
Application process
Email the below two things to dini@thewonkicollective.com to show interest in the role
* 60 second video/ voice note, highlighting relevant experience and why this role excites you (this does NOT need to be edited or perfect in any way)
* Your full CV
Interview process and timing
* Application / show of interest
* 1st stage - Initial screening interview
* 2nd stage - Technical interview
* 3rd stage - Cultural fit (preference to be in person)
* Job offer
Company Description
We’re building an AI driven B-2-B Software as a Service, to help food and beverage manufacturers intelligently manage surplus food stock. We’re looking for passionate problem solvers who want to join our journey and eradicate supply chain food waste👀.
* ⭐️BBC Food Innovation awardees
* 💰Recipients of InnovateUK grants
* 💪Partnership with Nestle UK (and others)
* 📈Working with +200 food manufacturers
40% of food that is produced never makes it to a supermarket shelf and gets lost along the supply chain. We exist to stop this. Our mission is to transform the way surplus food is managed; leveraging cutting-edge technology, we are building a circular economy through increased transparency and intelligent reallocation. Working in partnership with some of the largest food manufacturers in the UK.
Join our team as the 1st full time engineer and one of the first 5 full time employees > what you'll be up to
* Build from Scratch 👷– Work from the ground up to help materialise our vision, building the high-level system architecture
* Use Your Favourite Tools 🌟– Have a say in what technologies and tools we will use, shaping the tech stack for scalability
* Ship Features That Matter 🚢 – Develop essential components that help food manufacturers reduce food waste
* Performance Optimisation 🐞 – Ensure our platform is fast, stable, and ready to grow, tracking down bugs and fine-tuning performance
* Bring Designs to Life 💻 – Work side-by-side with our design team to turn creative visions into smooth, user-friendly tech solutions
* Work with high-scale data intensive APIs 🔗– Designing and building ERP integrations for scale, streamlining data flows
You’ll be a rockstar fit if you are
* A Strategic Operator 🐝– You love to think big picture as much as you love to get your hands dirty, doing the doing
* Have a Strong Product Mindset 🧠 – You have a solid understanding of building features directly for customers
* Thrive with the Startup Hustle 🔥– You’re agile, can think on your feet and work best in a fast-paced, ever changing environment
* Speak tech, talk people 👩💻– You can make even the most complicated technical solutions seem simple
* Own Your Work 💪 – You thrive with autonomy, taking full ownership of your projects, and delivering work that drives real impact
* An Entrepreneur at Heart 💛 – You have built your own side hustles, products, or even founded your own startup
The profile we’re looking for
Skills 🤹
* A thrifty development approach to ship solid MVPs at speed
* Able to build scalable enterprise grade software from scratch
* Completely full stack; strategic overview from conception to delivery of the end-to-end software architecture
* User-centric design, with an eye for detail in UI/UX to create experiences that are intuitive and engaging whilst also functional
* A total wizard in the stack of your choice for front and back end development
* Expert at managing complex relational databases
Experience 🌍
* Built software that has since scaled with speed and stability
* Led/owned the process to scale a product or software
* Worked on ML/AI based products or features
* Worked with APIs, webhooks, and data normalisation
* Bonus: understanding of UK food system and ERP systems (e.g. SAP)
Ways of working 🤓
* Excellent communicator, with the ability to deal with non-technical stakeholders
* Knows how to work with early-stage tech businesses, identifying problems, solving them, thriving with uncertainty.
Benefits 💛
* Equity package
* Flexible holidays
* Work from abroad (1 month)
* Enhanced maternity / paternity packages
* Flexible working hours
* Family friendly benefits