Senior Product Engineer, Vorboss
£80-100k
+ 10-20% monthly bonus based on individual performance
2-3 days a week in office (Liverpool Street, London)
High-capacity fibre network
Job no longer available
High-capacity fibre network
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£80-100k
+ 10-20% monthly bonus based on individual performance
2-3 days a week in office (Liverpool Street, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build London’s next-generation, business fibre network.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of engineering experience in professional software development.
- Experience with system architecture, knowing what approaches and trade-offs can lead to better outcomes.
- Experience with Typescript or similar strongly typed languages. Ideally experience with writing Node.js services.
- Experience developing with Neo4j or willingness to learn it. We use this as our main database to model the fibre network.
- Experience with shipping performant APIs as well as event-driven architecture.
- Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines and working with one or more public cloud providers (preferably AWS, but also Azure, GCP, etc.).
- Leading projects independently, occasionally running small teams. You’re able to craft proposals and get buy-in from across the organization (amongst software engineers and stakeholders).
- Embracing that simple is better than complex, and you have intuition for what will last and scale.
- Mentorship and growing engineers are a core part of who you are. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers on your team.
- Quick learner. Many of us don’t come from a telecoms background, and there’s lots to pick up all the time.
- Strategic thinker who measures value delivered instead of lines of code.
- Self-starter who can work with ambiguity – you drive continuous improvement through iteration.
Desirable
- Experience with designing and developing GraphQL APIs
- Experience working in a start-up or scale-up environment
- Experience with React or other frontend frameworks
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Engineer, we want people who’ve been there and deployed that, able to jump in to solve problems while continuously raising the bar for the rest of the team. This is a backend-focused role, roughly weighted 70:30
- At Vorboss, our philosophy is to scale the company through powerful software. Our team culture:
- Get the job done: Teams are empowered to run as they see fit - choose the best tools and ways of working to deliver. Proactive contribution to team improvements helps us all
- Adaptable: Things change fast in the fibre business. Balancing strategic plans with seizing opportunities is vital in making our products stay ahead
- Ownership: Teams own their products, take initiative and shape the roadmap. We have our specialities but work across all parts of the stack where needed – from wireframes to infrastructure
- Collaboration: We work closely with stakeholders to turn ambiguity into opportunity. Quite often, our users sit at the next desk bank over or come in from the field often, so our feedback loops are tight
Application process
- 15 minute recruiter screening call - a quick introduction to find out more about you and your experience
- 30 minute hiring manager video call - an opportunity to learn more about the role and tell us why you'd be a great fit
- Take home technical assessment - we'll provide you with a starter repository and you'll be asked to implement a full stack feature using Typescript
- 90 minute onsite technical interview - you'll talk us through your assessment and we'll ask a bit more about your technical experience
- 30 minute onsite cultural interview - an opportunity to find out if we're aligned on our values
Salary benchmarks
Our take
For the modern business, good fibre connection is as important as having electricity or office lighting - and that need is only growing. Enterprises need to have increased network capacity to both support the increasing complexity of digitally transformed business infrastructure, and accommodate the growing volume of digital engagement from clients and customers. Vorboss is a UK fibre network company hoping to provide precisely this.
Vorboss’ focus is on enterprise clients, which means the current roll-out of its network in London is a smart move. It’s the digital enterprise hub of the UK, so there’s a substantial market to capture. The only issue is, Vorboss will have to wrestle it from the hands of two major incumbents: Openreach, and Virgin Media’s own cable network.
Vorboss’ focus on enterprise is an exclusive one, however, so unlike these two major competitors it’s possible this new network can cling more closely to enterprise requirements. With its deployment still in progress, Vorboss’ success will remain to be seen - but with the UK in the midst of a fibre transition, it's the right time to be challenging the incumbents.
Freddie
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Insights
31% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"I've been part of the Vorboss family for just over three years now and I can honestly say that I've loved every minute of it. Vorboss provides us..."
Company benefits
- We believe in taking care of our staff both mentally and physically and in order to support this we offer a range of benefits that you can access
- Company pension scheme
- Monthly bonus scheme
- 25 days of annual leave allowance that increases with years served (excluding bank holidays)
- Vitality Private Healthcare
- Life assurance
- Income Protection
- Access to Spill, our mental health support partner
- Cycle to work scheme
- Half price gym membership
- Free eye test
- Travel loan
- Hastee app, to help manage your salary and finances
Company values
- We are always purposeful - We never settle for the default and we always strive for better
- We do the right thing - Always, with honesty and integrity
- The best job you'll ever have - We work hard to keep this promise
- We empower each other - We are stronger together
- We look after each other - We keep everyone safe and well
- We are a people first organisation - Our employees are our strongest asset
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Timothy Creswick
(CEO)Previously the MD at Thoughtspace, and went on to hold various CTO roles at Sazneo, Brian Industries, and The SPN Alliance. Also holds an MEng from Oxford University.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Vorboss
Rikshita Khela (Chief People Officer)
- Vorboss was named one of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in the UK and Best Places to Work for Women. We are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace culture in the telecoms industry, with initiatives including the Vorboss Academy and our Female First campaign.
- Mandatory diversity and inclusion training training for all employees, and additional manager training
- Our pledge to have 1 in 2 of our technical and engineering positions filled by women by 2027
- We offer paid period days, have mandatory menopause training for all staff, and have on-the-road welfare vans and coffee shop partnerships to make sure everyone working in the field has access to safe and clean facilities
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