TrustedHousesitters is hiring a
Backend Engineer in United Kingdom

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer in TrustedHousesitters, a rapidly growing pet care travel exchange. The role involves contributing to product development and working with cross-functional teams. The company offers remote work, competitive salary, bonus, equity options, and various benefits such as health insurance, retirement benefits, paid time off, flexible hours, bonuses and incentives, professional development opportunities, wellness programs, family and parental leave, and more.

Requirements

• 4 years experience with Python
• At least 2 years experience with Django
• Helping support work on high volume website & app traffic
• Support of a cross-functional working squad set up
• Ability to confidently communicate work developments to cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Contribute to ideation and product discovery sessions, providing technical input on the MVP design and implementation of features
• Work with the Backend Guild and Guild Lead to deliver the backend roadmap

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on platforms at scale
• DevOps experience in an AWS environment
• Experience with ElasticSearch

Benefits

• Fully remote work
• Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme
• Generous equity options
• 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure
• Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters
• Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership which includes benefits like airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you and 5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year
• Our team have an unlimited housesitting allowance, can work remotely from their sits, and TrustedHousesitters will contribute up to £500 per year towards travel costs
• $200 annually towards home office equipment
• Monthly working from home stipend
• Mac book
• Find a rescue pet to join your family and we’ll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home
• We host a quarterly all expenses paid meet-up, and will fund team events (remote or in person) throughout the year
• We can cover costs of personal development resources, and have regular time set aside for personal development
• Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan
• Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve
• Weekly virtual yoga sessions
• SimplyHealth healthcare cash plan
• Brighton Bikeshare
• Recruitment Referral Bonus
• Access to Spaces Locations across the globe