Senior Software Engineer, Checkatrade
Checkatrade Labs
£80-115k
2-3 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
Open for applications
Online marketplace for home improvements and repairs
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£80-115k
2-3 days a week in office (Moorgate, London)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To be a modern online marketplace working towards becoming the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve built early-stage or greenfield products – maybe in a startup, scaleup, or innovation lab
- You’re comfortable working independently, and enjoy making architectural and technical decisions yourself
- You’re passionate about proof of concepts coming to life, balancing speed and quality
- You’ve likely worked across the stack (Node/TypeScript/React preferred, but we’re flexible)
- You love partnering with product, asking "why?", and pushing for real outcomes
- You’re not chasing a management track – you want to stay close to the code, close to the customer, and proud of what you ship
What the job involves
- We’re Labs – the experimental product arm of Checkatrade
- We're on the hunt for a Senior Software Engineer who’s passionate about building from scratch – someone who wants autonomy, real impact, and the thrill of validating (or killing) ideas quickly
- This isn’t for someone eyeing the fast lane to CTO or a big team
- It’s for someone who wants to build
- Move fast in Labs mode – You’ll work in your own dedicated environment, free from the constraints of our core platform. No long deployment queues, no waiting for dependencies – just you, your product lead, and the freedom to ship at pace
- Prove concepts quickly – Your days will often start with a problem statement or hypothesis and end with a working prototype. You’ll design, build, and launch MVPs and POCs in days, not months, so we can test and learn fast
- Work like a start‑up inside a scale‑up – You’ll partner closely with a product entrepreneur to take ideas from rough sketches to live experiments. Some days you’ll be sketching out system architecture together, others you’ll be heads‑down coding, testing, or iterating on something you shipped yesterday
- Experiment with new tools & approaches – You’ll have the freedom to try new frameworks, services, and AI tools, and decide what’s right for the job. You’ll push the limits of how we build, inspiring other teams by the tools and techniques you bring into the business
- Own the full build – From backend to frontend to deployment, you’ll be responsible for your product’s technical direction. You’ll architect for speed today but keep scalability in mind so proven ideas can move into production
- Shape the way Labs works – You won’t just be building products – you’ll be shaping our approach. Your decisions, tools, and working style will influence how innovation happens across the company
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Checkatrade created the online market for searching, engaging, and reviewing tradespeople back when the digital age was just beginning. Now a household name, it's on a huge growth journey to once again lead the market in every home improvement project seamlessly for both consumers and tradespeople, through its end-to-end digital marketplace. Put simply, Checkatrade connects people with highly skilled, quality tradespeople - and the trades with the tools they need to do their jobs.
Checkatrade has ambitious plans for expansion and innovation. It offers the agility of a start-up with the reassurance of an established organisation and has a team of more than 500 working flexibility from both Portsmouth and its R&D Hub in the heart of Kings Cross.
Recent initiatives such as launching a new quoting and invoicing tool, demonstrate its ongoing efforts to continuously improve user experience and streamline and automate operations for both consumers and trades. The company has made sure it stands out against its competitors with its commitment to trust and quality, raising standards and its dedication to customer satisfaction.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
Hamza Anjarwalla, Labs Launcher Intrapreneur
Insights
Company
Employee endorsements
Challenging work
"Checkatrade is changing how our business works, moving from a directory to a marketplace, and this comes with it a huge amount of opportunities to..."
Company benefits
- 💰 Annual company wide bonus plan - when company wins, we all win
- 💷 Wellness cashplan- Claim back money on opticians, dentists and hospital stays so you can keep your health in check.
- 👩⚕️ 24/7 Online GP Service - Health App
- 💪 Gym membership - Pure gym membership
- 🛍️ Discounts and cashback for 100s of retailers across the UK
- 🚗 Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- 💻 Smart Tech Scheme - get the gadgets you want whilst spreading the payments interest free for up to 24 months
- 😋 Free food & Drinks
- 🎉 Company events
- 🗎 Life assurance
- 🏥 Private Medical - depending on the role you may qualify for a PMI
- 👵🏽 Pension - 4%
- 👶🏿 26 Weeks full maternity pay
- 👶🏼 4 Weeks paternity pay
- 🏖️ Buy and sell holiday
- 🎗️ Charity leave - How does one week every year to support a cause close to you in addition to your annual leave sound?
- 👥 Recommend a friend scheme
- 📱 Mobile Phone Allowance
- 🧒 Workplace Nursery scheme- committed to helping ease that financial pressure for our valued employees
Company values
- Be All In: We are moving at pace – enjoy the journey, embrace the opportunity and own the outcome
- Always Customer Obsessed: We are testing and learning together – listen to our customer insights continuously and evolve our approach
- Do The Right Thing: We work with integrity in everything we do – do the right thing for our team and customers
- Be Bold: We are ambitious and think big – speak up and go direct to deliver our mission together
- Get It Done: We are here for exceptional outcomes – have a bias for action to deliver them
Company HQ
Moorgate, London, UK
Articles
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Checkatrade
Jo Agar (Internal Communications Manager )
- We are all about positive action and promote Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Whether it’s creating awareness of the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce, to having the right policies, processes, and training in place, we are committed to making sure that at Checkatrade each individual feels valued and accepted. We have task forces to drive our D&I agenda, we have initiatives in play to support employee wellbeing and we run regular engagement surveys to track employee satisfaction too and take action on responses.
- We’re proud to say that women make up 26% of our total tech workforce and 35% of our senior leadership team. We have an established “Women In Tech” network, who are supported to explore their tech careers and grow their influence and networks. We’re for everyone and we build together for our customers.
- We partner with She Can Code to actively drive diversity hiring.
- We run an in-house mentoring scheme aimed to support your growth with us.
- We value diverse ideas, innovation, and are focussed on inclusivity. We take a tech-first approach to removing barriers to success for our people, our consumers, and our trade members.
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