Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Total remuneration package: £52,823 - £75,281 per annum*

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Senior Full Stack Engineer

A bit about Torchbox

We're the digital marketing specialists for many of the biggest charities in the UK; we build digital products for international NGOs, governments and universities; and we created Wagtail CMS, used by Google, NASA, the NHS and thousands more.

Our diverse team of over 110 people is mostly UK-based but with a significant presence in Manila as well as a network of people around the world.

We are on a mission to set a new standard for a purpose-led business. Torchbox is 100% employee-owned - everyone is a co-owner from day one and we are building an amazing, progressive ownership and learning culture. If you are excited about this mission, it's a great time to join.

What we're looking for

Depending on your skills and interests some of the things you could find yourself doing in this role include:

• Working on innovative applications which facilitate strategic and business-critical processes for our clients
• Working in a multidisciplinary team environment to explore and solve complex problems
• Taking the lead on building web apps for our lovely, charity and public sector clients across the globe. This could be, implementing and improving our much loved open source Content Management System - Wagtail - an open source CMS that powers some of the biggest and most prestigious websites in the world or it could be using other technical stacks if the project calls for it
• Providing technical leadership and vision to our clients
• Supporting teams of developers within Torchbox
• Working on sprints focused on tech debt and code restructuring
• Working with the likes of gasman and tomdyson, who are members of the Django Software Foundation, to improve Wagtail and augment the Wagtail vision for 2023; building new Wagtail features which may be funded by our largest clients
• Working within a client's engineering team mentoring, guiding and supporting them to get the most out of Wagtail for their organisation
• Providing expert consulting to Wagtail Support clients

You'll get to choose your own equipment (macOS/Linux laptop), as well as any software you'd like.

A successful Senior Full Stack Engineer will have the following technical skills:

Essential:

• Demonstrable expertise in Python and Django web development
• Experience with Relational Database Systems (especially PostgreSQL), Docker/ Containerised deployments, RESTful APIs (e.g DRF), Gitlab/GitHub, CI and Testing.
• An understanding of the following technologies: Heroku, Azure, AWS, GCP, Elasticsearch, GraphQL
• Expertise in NLP, Large Language Models or other AI technologies
• Front end programming skills using Javascript based frameworks e.g. React/NextJS, Vue/NuxtJS
• Front end styling skills using Tailwind and BEM

Desirable:

• Familiarity or expertise with Wagtail
• Expertise in data warehousing and data pipelines
• Other front end technologies e.g. server side Node.js
• Knowledge or expertise in accessibility testing and best practice

The successful candidate will also:

• Be using machine learning and AI tools on a daily basis to augment their efficiency and knowledge
• Have experience as a technical lead on projects
• Have an understanding of, and confidently demonstrate, aspects of project management (e.g agile development methodologies and backlog refinement )
• Be confident in communicating with internal teams and clients to elicit clearly defined requirements and convert these into robust technical architecture
• Produce high-quality technical specifications, documentation and be skilled at estimating the time required to build
• Confidently contribute to testing strategies
• Be experienced in producing high-quality code to budget, whilst demonstrating commercial awareness
• Confidently contribute technically towards pitches and proposals
• Have previous experience with helping to nurture a strong, happy team by supporting your colleagues (teaching, coaching, line managing, mentoring, reviewing and improving code) as well as remaining up to date with technologies in your software field and sharing your knowledge.

What we offer.

• Become a co-owner of Torchbox, shape our success and share in the rewards
• Work with awesome clients doing rewarding, purposeful work
• Competitive salary + annual review + bonuses
• Ethical pension scheme, with a 6% contribution from Torchbox
• 27 days holiday, plus public holidays
• Fully remote, hybrid, office full-time, whatever works for you
• Training and conference budget to discover new ideas
• Paid time off to volunteer for causes that matter to you
• Health schemes and access to mental health support
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme (UK only)
• Wellness programme and cycle-to-work scheme, alongside other lovely things that are good for you and the environment
• Some pretty epic socials (virtual and in-person), weekly free veggie lunches in the office and a bunch of other cool stuff we'd love to tell you about

The money bit

* As an employee-owned company our remuneration is made up of two parts, your base salary £52,823 - £75,281 per annum and your tax-free co-owner bonus of £3,600 which is prorated and paid quarterly.

The application process

The application process will consist of 3 stages, these will be:

1. An initial meeting with the team to discuss the role, your skills and experience, and for you to learn more about us and the role. There is also a technical element to the interview as well.

2. A takeaway technical assignment.

3. A final stage interview with a Senior Developer and Director of Software Engineering, a run through of your technical assessment, further technical questions and test.

Everyone is welcome
We're committed to being an inclusive employer, from recruitment to everyday life.
If you need help or have questions - give us a shout - [email protected] or leave us a voice message on +44 (0) 1608 811 870

No agencies, please.