Head of Engineering, Beacon
£150k
More information about location
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
A modern CRM for charities
Open for applications
A modern CRM for charities
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£150k
More information about location
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To give everyone who works for a charity the simple, flexible, and beautiful tools they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- At least 5 years of experience in an engineering leadership role at a B2B SaaS company, ideally as Head of Engineering, VP of Engineering, or CTO
- Extensive expert-level experience with our core technologies (Postgres, React, Node, AWS Lambda, and BigQuery)
- Absolutely superb communication skills. You need to be able to communicate effectively across all of Beacon’s internal teams, including the founders, engineers, customer success managers, and the sales team. You’ll also need to be charming and friendly with external parties such as Beacon customers, partners, and integrations partners
What the job involves
- Work with the Founders and Beacon’s senior engineers to solve our very hardest technical problems, and guide the implementation of the solutions you come up with
- Ensure that Beacon is built in a modern, sensible, maintainable, and scalable way
- Develop a profound understanding of the Beacon product, and contribute to product strategy
- Inspire and empower our team of in-house engineers, and manage the reorganisation of the engineering team as we scale
- Take ownership of how Beacon is tested, and ensure that the team are adhering to modern testing methodologies
- Contribute to prioritisation of our day-to-day backlog of features, chores, and bugs
- You’ll be comfortable stepping up and taking charge of the situation when bad things happen. As alarms are blaring and deployments are failing, you’ll be cool as a cucumber
- Investigate new technologies regularly. You’ll need to seek out new ways of doing things and drive the implementation of improvements to the Beacon product across the board
- Take ultimate responsibility for the stability and uptime of Beacon, and manage the systems and processes that ensure this stability
Salary benchmarks
Our take
As nonprofits and charities often struggle to keep up with the level of innovation in the enterprise world, Beacon offers a cloud-based, data-driven CRM that lets them manage donations, fundraisers, payments, events & ticketing, marketing campaigns, and volunteers all in one place.
The last few years has seen an increase in the developments in the Charity CRM space. Companies like Salesforce have rolled out major upgrades to its non-profit cloud, while platform-to-platform integrations are also becoming more common. Further to that point, Beacon is one company that’s recently integrated with JustGiving.
The company has grown steadily in popularity since its 2017 inception, picking up well-respected clients like The New Humanitarian, The Jacobs Foundation, and Cruse Bereavement Care.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
32% female employees
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"There's always something new to do - clients have increasingly complex needs, and there's never an attitude of 'We can't do that' - but instead..."
Company benefits
- Our customers are all charities - you'll get to build your career whilst having a genuinely positive impact on the world
- Four day work week. Our working model gives everyone a 3 day weekend, every week.
- We'll give you 6 weeks (24 days) of holiday every year, plus bank holidays
- Taking time off is important. And we really mean it: We'll pay you a £60 bonus for every day of holiday you take
- Banded salary system so that everyone is paid the same for doing the same job, and your growth within the organisation is clear
- Beacon is climate positive (beyond carbon neutral), so your employment won't hurt the planet. Learn more
- A proper pension - we'll match 150% of your pension contributions (up to 10%)
- Private health insurance with routine dental & optical cover
- Modern parental leave policy (12 weeks at full pay, and it's the same for everyone, regardless of gender or circumstances)
- Cycle to work scheme
- Sabbatical every 5 years (6 weeks off, fully paid)
Company values
- Social good
- Sustainable growth
- Partnership
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
David Simpson
(CTO)Former Head of Product at IT Infrastructure company Tray.io, former Senior Researcher at domain name registry Nominet.
Chris Houghton
(CEO)Former Head of Partner Success at Tray.io, co-founder and former CTO at e-commerce marketing platform, Sauce Apps.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Beacon
- We encourage everyone with the required skills to apply, we consider building a diverse and representative team to be critical to our success, and we actively pursue building a more diverse team
- We passionately believe in doing our part to fix the tech sector's diversity problem and that in building diversity we build strength
- We have a banded salary system to ensure that nobody is paid differently for the same role. Salaries across the organisation, including executive pay, are entirely transparent
- Our parental leave policy provides for 12 weeks of full pay, and can be taken by any parent, regardless of their new parenting circumstances
- We are actively working to demonstrate our commitment to our values by completing Bloody Good Period’s ‘Bloody Good Employer’ certification and working towards becoming a certified BCorp.
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