Software Engineer, Breakroom
Backend and Ops
£70-85k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
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1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£70-85k
+ Bonus + Equity
More information about location
2 days a week in office
1-20 employees
Company mission
To help people get a good job, that’s right for them.
Role
Who you are
- Be motivated to work towards our mission
- Have a thorough working knowledge of how to build for the web
- Have in depth experience with a backend language such as Elixir, Ruby, Python or Node.JS
- Have experience with a full stack web framework such as Phoenix, Ruby on Rails or Django
- Had responsibility for developing complex features/services
- Be able to effectively communicate complex technical ideas with people across the business
- Experience participating in/leading operations for a high-traffic website
- Confident managing, debugging and scaling production Postgres databases
- Have experience working in cross functional teams
- Be able to participate in supporting Breakroom out of hours
Desirable
- 5+ years of experience building software for the web
- Experience working on a consumer facing product
- Experience writing Elixir or another functional programming language
- Experience building on Google Cloud/Heroku
- Experience managing infrastructure with code such as Terraform
- Experience managing CI/CD pipelines
- Confident managing, debugging and scaling production Redis and ElasticSearch databases
- Experience developing and managing business intelligence/data pipelines
- Experience working with a stack in multiple geographic regions
- Experience working in a fast-paced small team
- Experience or an interest in mentoring and supporting other engineers
- Be able to lead on diagnosing and debugging production issues
What the job involves
- We’re launching Breakroom in the US, and we’re growing our team to help
- We’re looking for people who want to join an early stage engineering and product team as we scale into a new market
- Designing, writing, shipping and maintaining code
- Building internal tools and shaping our processes
- Contributing expertise to decision making that guides the future of the product and the team
- Our platform is built on Elixir, using the Phoenix web framework, on top of Postgres, Redis, Google Pub/Sub and Elasticsearch
- We love it, and think you will too. We don’t expect you to have experience writing Elixir/Phoenix and we’ll support you to learn it on the job
Application process
- Our interview process is all done remotely via video call. All candidates at Breakroom will first have:
- A screening interview with a Talent Acquisition Partner
- A “ways of working” interview with two members of the Breakroom team. This is the same interview for everyone regardless of the position being applied to
- Successful candidates for engineering will then have:
- A 1 hour take home exercise to be submitted to us ahead of your technical interview
- A technical interview which will consist of reviewing and discussing the take home exercise, collaborating on an engineering problem, and other general technical questions
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Today, people are keen to know whether they are getting the best deal from their employee experience. Breakroom was developed to let people compare their hourly job to other jobs across the UK, highlighting things like how many hours they could get, how stressful the job is, or whether it's easy to fit around childcare.
One of a number of recruitment-focussed startups, Breakroom faces a lot of competition from peers, as well as from bigger players such as Indeed and Glassdoor. However, its focus on lower-wage, large-employer sectors such as retail, delivery companies and supermarket work do allow it to stand out.
In 2024, the company was acquired by leading online employment marketplace ZipRecruiter. This will bring Breakroom's innovative employer review platform to the US, empowering many more job seekers with authentic and comparable insights.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$7m
SEED
Feb 2020
$2.1m
SEED
Total funding: $10m
Company benefits
- Pick your own hardware
- £1000 annual training budget
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible remote/office arrangements
- 25 days annual holiday plus bank holidays
- 13 weeks parental leave for all new parents
- 5% pension contributions
- Travelcard or rail pass loan scheme
- Mental health support at work through Spill
- Access to our Cycle to Work scheme
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Anna Maybank
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded Bethnal Green Ventures, before co-founding Poetica which was acquired by Condé Nast in 2016.
Tom Taylor
(Co-Founder & CPTO)Worked in multiple high-growth startups and companies including as co-founder of Newspaper Club, CPO of Co-op Digital and in product development at Bulb.
James Weiner
(Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer)Led the original design team on the gov.uk website. Co-founded Poetica, which was acquired by Condé Nast in 2016.
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