📣 A bit about the role:
As part of a Growth Product Engineering team, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, designers and stakeholders to help solve our customers' problems and directly impact their (and their dog's) daily lives. As a Senior Engineer in this team, you'll be the driving force in a number of key app and web development projects that play a huge part in the growth of Butternut.
In this role, you can expect to:
- Contribute to the architecture and development direction of the team to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
- Work across the stack to deliver quality, maintainable code. This role is slightly more frontend weighted but you will be expected to work across the stack.
- Collaborate and learn with other team members via pair programming, mentoring, code reviews, and technical talks.
- Learn about and champion best practices in code, architecture & processes.
You'll get to use a lot of exciting technology here at Butternut including:
- Ruby on Rails
- React.js
- React Native
- Postgresql
- Heroku
- AWS
- Github Actions for CI/CD
💡A bit about your responsibilities:
- Work closely with PM's, designers and other engineers to build features and products to delight our customers and make their dogs' lives better.
- Work across the stack which includes React Native (mobile), React and Ruby on Rails.
- Ensure the systems we build are modular, scalable and reliable.
Here are some of the projects the team have worked on recently:
- Enabling international expansion by adapting our systems for other currencies and languages.
- Helping customers better resolve issues with their deliveries themselves through a self-serve platform that looks great and is easy to use.
- Building a new onboarding flow to make sure new customers feel at home with Butternut.
👋 A bit about you:
- Significant commercial experience in a similar senior fullstack engineering position, on a Ruby on Rails / React stack.
- An interest in developing your skills and coaching others around you.
- A true motivation to ship customer-facing products that have a direct impact on commercials.
- Pro-active, driven, entrepreneurial spirit.
- Passion for startups.
- Obsessed with dogs!
🐶 A bit about us:
At Butternut, we put the food back into dog food. We believe dogs deserve to eat the healthiest, most natural and tastiest food with none of the nasties. That’s why we make freshly prepared dog food. Cooked like you would at home. Delivered in perfect portions. #LI-Hybrid
As a B-Corp certified company; you can be sure you are joining a sustainable company who care about our people, product and our impact on the environment.
Our goal is to help dogs live healthier, happier and longer lives whilst leaving humans smiling after every interaction. We’ve come a long way since our co-founders (Kev & Dave) hand-delivered the first Butternut Box, we now feed a lot of dogs across the UK - but we want to feed dogs everywhere. And to do this, we need a team of brilliant people who share that ambition to come and work with us.
🙌 A bit about what we offer.
- 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
- 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
- £500 personal learning & development budget
- Butternut Box employee discount
- Enhanced parental leave
- Co-working office space. Flexible working hours and work from home options
- Cycle to work scheme
- Pension with NEST
- Private Medical Insurance with Vitality
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
- Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Chief, Basil, Lenny, Willow, Remi, Watson, Georgie and many more….)
❗️A few things to note:
- Butternut Box is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusion. We welcome people of different nationalities, backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives.
- As our business has grown so has our responsibility to our community, our planet and our business. We are not perfect, but we are committed to doing business the right way and continually improving our social and environmental performance.
- We are not looking for external agency support with this role.
- We are not able to offer visa sponsorship at this time.
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