Backend Software Engineer, Stotles
£60-75k
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
A platform to streamline public sector sales
Open for applications
A platform to streamline public sector sales
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£60-75k
+ Equity
1-2 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Stotles' mission is to create a world where business and government work better, together.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in a software engineering role
- Experience with TypeScript or other languages like C#, Python, Go, JavaScript and excitement to learn TypeScript
- Good knowledge of relational databases, preferably PostgreSQL
- Experience with building applications running in the cloud and using modern DevOps tools
- (Bonus) Experience with event based architectures & building data-intensive applications
- Effective communicator: Sharing complex ideas and presenting your work - both with to the engineering team and the wider Stotles team - is the core of our job
- Great at working with others, great at managing your time: As we’re a small team working on ambitious goals, effective teamwork is crucial. At the same time we expect everyone to manage their workload efficiently
- Focused on impact, not output: Always focused on the customer impact of what we’re building, using the best tool for the job and excited to learn new things in the process
- Ambitious curiosity: Eager to learn skills and technologies outside of your comfort zone, take ever more challenging tasks, and grow into a senior leadership role at Stotles
- Dependability & detail-oriented: Trusted to deliver on the commitments you make to the team, from the big picture results to the nuanced details
What the job involves
- Working in the engineering team at Stotles you will:
- Help us build the system handling all of our public sector data
- Develop data ingestion & enrichment pipelines, search & relevance backends for all our datasets and much more
- Work together with other engineers, product owners & designers to architect, build, deploy & operate these systems in production
- Have an important role in designing & developing the software architecture of our platform suitable for future growth
- Collaborate closely with full-stack engineers building the customer-facing web application to provide them with the right ways to access and integrate with our data backend
- You will have opportunities to develop services backing cutting-edge features in our SaaS web application
- To give you some idea of the type of features we have planned, here are some that we are building now or have on our roadmap:
- Ingesting and visualising data about what government organisations are spending on
- Creating a database of all organisations that take part in the public sector: think every government body and every private company that they ever worked with
- Developing a proprietary relevance scoring system that matches our customer’s profiles to most relevant pieces of data about public sector
- Building system for scraping and ingesting data about ongoing government purchasing frameworks, connecting them to procurement data and allowing users to search through that dataset
- Also see here for what we’ve released recently
- You will help us build a global public sector database by combining procurement data, news sources, government spend and planning information and many other data sources and develop a state-of-the-art search engine for this data
- You will work in an environment that encourages constant learning and growth, whether it’s trying out new technologies, sharing knowledge or best practices across the team or learning skills from other colleagues
Application process
- A 15-20 minute intro call This is an informal chat so you can learn more about the company and the role and you can tell us more about yourself - your experience and what you want to achieve in the next role
- A 60 minute technical discussion (system design/no live coding) During this call with two other engineers, you will discuss a technical problem that is related to Stotles’ product domain
- A ~3 hour technical take-home task You will be given access to a small JavaScript/TypeScript codebase that you will have to modify. You can complete the task at your own pace and time - we only ask you to send back the git repo with the code
- A 60 minute discussion of your solution In this call you will discuss your submission with two other engineers and Carsten (our Chief Product Officer and one of the co-founders). We will talk about your coding decisions and possible extensions of your solution both from the technical and product point of view
- A 60 minute background & critical thinking interview with the co-founders
- ❗ Note: The most important thing is that we get to know each other, so we may tweak the process candidate-to-candidate. Regardless, we'll get back to you <48h after your interviews clearly outlining next steps
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Stotles is aiming to break down the barriers to government contracting, so more firms can compete for public sector contracts, not just those with the right contacts.
They do this by using lots of government data to identify business opportunities in the public sector, and match them with the companies on their platform. The platform, which gets its name from Aristotle, enables suppliers to follow indicators, track potential contract renewals, monitor buyers, and monitor competitors.
The founders have been at the intersection of public and private sectors, at firms such as the World Economic Forum, Boston Consulting Group, and Bloomberg. They have experienced the pain of bidding for public work beforehand, which gave them the idea.
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Employee endorsements
Nice people
"I've worked in several startups before and Stotles is the nicest bunch thus far! Given our size, and how closely we work together..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jun 2022
$6.6m
SEED
Jan 2022
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $8.7m
Company benefits
- Equity options dependent on experience
- A personal health, wellness, and development allowance of £130/month to spend on gym memberships, therapy, yoga classes... any experience that keeps your mind and body healthy.
- A dedicated learning and development budget you can use for books, conferences, courses, events
- Monthly affectionately-termed "TeamChills™️": our in-person team-bonding socials covering anything from mini-golf, to communal taco-eating and summer picnics
- A work-from-home setup budget of £400 you can use for these items: a keyboard, monitor, mouse, office chair, desk, headphones
- A generous health cash plan (Covers dental, optical, physical therapy, consultations, etc.)
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- A hybrid working environment with 1-2 days in office and flexible work-from-home opportunities
Company values
- Be ambitious: you think beyond yourself and your role, you always opt for optimism, and curiosity is your middle name.
- Build trust: you share your success with the team, you embrace and learn from failures, and you default to communicating with transparency.
- Drive impact: you bias towards action and take the initiative, you own your outcomes, and you speak up with bright ideas
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
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Leadership
Carsten Schaltz
(CPO)Previously worked in Product at DueDil. Prior to that, worked as a Consultant at BCG. Also has an MBA from LBS
Taj Kamranpour
(COO)Serial entrepreneur and ex Fat Llama, Kinross, WINETA. Also has an MBA from LBS
John Witt
(CEO)Previously Consultant for the World Economic Forum and Founder of Finclusive, a start-up connecting a network of financial-service professionals seeking opportunities for pro-bono work with individuals & families seeking no-cost personal finance tools & education. Also has an MBA from LBS
People progressing
Joined Stotles in 2022 as a Growth Associate, and has since been promoted to Growth Marketing Manager in early 2024.
Joined Stotles as a Customer Success Manager in November 2022, and was promoted to Senior Customer Success Manager in January 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Stotles
John Witt (CEO)
- ED&I is both important *and* urgent — in the short-term and long-term. It must not take a back seat.
- The phrase "Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion" (ED&I) refers to our initiative to create a well-rounded workforce and an environment where everyone has the opportunity to be the best version of themselves - no matter who we are, where we're from, or what we look like
- How we define equality: We view equality as the fairness of opportunity to contribute to the mission of Stotles - regardless of traits and characteristics of a person.
- How we define diversity: We view diversity as the traits and characteristics that make people unique. Gender, race, ethnicity, age, origin, religion, sexual orientation, and disability are some examples of how we are diverse at Stotles. We also consider diversity as differences in experiences and ways of thinking. Sometimes we can see things that make us diverse and sometimes we can't.
- We view inclusion as the behaviors, processes, systems, and norms that ensure all unique people feel welcome, and feel ownership of our mission, regardless of their background
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