Hire Space Hiring for Senior Back-End Software Engineer (node.js) Job at London, England Full Time

About Hire Space

Hire Space provides everything needed for businesses to host world-class virtual, hybrid, or in-person events, both in the UK and globally. As long-standing EventTech leaders, we are at the forefront of the rapidly growing world of virtual events. To help us on this journey we are seeking a Front End Engineer to join our passionate and collaborative team.

We operate the UK’s largest venue marketplace, which hosts over 6,000 venues and is used by over 2 million prospective event planners each year. Our clients include Google, Facebook, Red Bull, UNICEF, and Dr. Martens. We have built a reputation for delivering world-class virtual events and are the force behind the largest virtual Xmas party of 2020.

We’re looking for smart, curious, and self-starting people from all backgrounds to join our team. Ultimately, we’re here to make events a joy.

The Role

As a Senior Back End Engineer (node.js), you will be responsible for delivering a fast and modern UI to our users. You’ll help make the big calls on the architecture for your project and help to implement best practice in the structure of the codebase.

You’ll build the back-end for a major part of our infrastructure which will be used by millions of people every year, and will revolutionize the events industry. You’ll work predominantly in node.js using a serverless infrastructure and will also incorporate other technologies to acheive the functionality that we need.

Hire Space’s mission is to make events a joy through transformational technology. As Senior Back End Engineer, you’ll play a fundamental role in the “transformational” element of this mission, and help create a slick, fast, booking experience for our users.

You will take the lead in architectural decisions for this project, and will work closely with our Engineering Manager to develop a coherent full-stack solution, with our Front End Engineer to create a front end to consume your API and with other engineers in the team for code review, sharing of best practice and other collaboration.

Responsibilities will include:

Software Engineering

• Developing a new back-end infrastructure for a core part of our user journey
• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensuring reliability and test coverage
• Designing a solution so that this technology can scale to be used by millions of users each month

Collaboration

• Learning through code-review of other engineer’s code, and their review of your code
• Pair-programming when required to ensure high-quality code and learning
• Working with our Senior Front End Engineer to provide a performant booking UI for our users

You should apply if you:

• Have solid experience building highly performant node.js APIs that can scale to millions of users
• Have 5+ years back-end development experience
• Have 3+ years of experience working in Node.js using npm
• Have experience working in Typescript (and love it)
• Have a solid understanding of key design principles
• Have experience working in an agile development environment
• Have a passion for clean code
• Have great interpersonal and communication skills
• Have built web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack;
• You care about building reliable, well-tested systems;
• You thrive in a culture of continuous learning and feedback.

It would be a bonus if you:

• Have experience working with 3rd party booking tools
• Have an understanding of various different software development practices
• Have a GitHub account with some cool projects in it
• Have previous experience at a scale-up
• Have knowledge of back-end application security

Benefits:

• £60,000 p.a. salary
• Regular team socials (virtually and, in-person as guidelines allow)
• Regular professional development opportunities
• Remote-first set-up, work from anywhere
• Home office spending allowance
• Free nights out in London’s most exciting venues (as guidelines allow)
• Free independent wellbeing coaching and therapy sessions as part of our Mental Health initiative

Logistics:

• This is a remote-first role, with the proviso that you will be working with an office that operates on UK time
• Our client base is predominantly in London and it is a “nice-to-have” for you to be able to visit our office from time-to-time and attend our away days in-person

Equal Opportunities Statement:

• At Hire Space, embracing diversity in all of its forms and fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.