Senior Full Stack Engineer

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Total remuneration package: £47,884 - £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:

• Developing applications that enable our charity and public sector clients worldwide to achieve their strategic and business-critical goals.
• Providing technical leadership on projects from discovery to backlog management, and taking charge of resolving complex client issues.Working on Wagtail, our open-source CMS, which powers some of the most prestigious websites globally. Collaborating with core contributors like gasman and tomdyson to shape the Wagtail vision, add new features, and improve its performance. Or it could be using other technical stacks if the project calls for it.
• Taking ownership of projects, proactively identifying and solving issues, addressing technical debt, and ensuring code quality across the board.
• Collaborating with and mentoring other Engineers in the team, conducting pedagogical code reviews, and contributing to team learning through workshops, talks, and collaborative sessions.
• Guiding and supporting client engineering teams to maximise the value of Wagtail and align technical execution with their strategic roadmaps. Providing expert consulting to Wagtail Support clients.
• Working with delivery managers to track budgets, optimise resources, and ensure client satisfaction.

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
• Front end programming skills using Javascript based frameworks e.g. React/NextJS, Vue/NuxtJS

Desirable:

• Familiarity or expertise with Wagtail
• Expertise in NLP, Large Language Models or other AI technologies
• Expertise in data warehousing and data pipelines
• Experience with Node.js /Express
• Front end styling skills using Tailwind and BEM
• Knowledge or expertise in accessibility testing and best practice

The successful candidate will also:

• Be using machine learning and AI tools to augment efficiency and knowledge
• Have experience as a technical lead on projects
• Be able to 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
• Contribute technically towards pitches and proposals
• Have experience with nurturing a team by supporting colleagues (through mentoring, coaching, line managing, and reviewing and improving code)
• Remain up to date with technologies in the software field and share that 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 £47,884 - £75,281 per annum and your tax-free co-owner bonus of £3,600 which is prorated and paid quarterly.

The application process

The closing date for this role is Friday 13th December 2024.

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.