Senior Full Stack Engineer, Purple Dot
£80-110k
2+ days a week in office (Lower Thames Street, City of London)
Pre-order experiences for eCommerce
Be an early applicant
Pre-order experiences for eCommerce
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£80-110k
2+ days a week in office (Lower Thames Street, City of London)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To drive 0 unsold inventory in eCommerce.
Role
Who you are
- Have the willingness and the ability to own complex and impactful features throughout their whole development lifecycle
- Be product-focused and have a pragmatic approach to engineering, prioritising delivering value to our customers
- Have a desire to quickly release and iterate – you are happiest when the things you build go live
- Have a growth mindset - an open mind and a willingness to stretch yourself and to learn new skills. As we scale we are discovering every day what does and does not work - you’ll need to be comfortable with learning from failure
- Be an excellent communicator, able to write and talk about complex ideas - and their progress - with technical and non-technical stakeholders. And to listen and guide other engineers to reach consensus
- 5+ years of working on frontend and backend systems exposed to the public. We are looking for someone with battle-hardened experiences of: - Writing applications that interfaces with large SQL databases - we use Postgres - Running applications on cloud platforms (we use AWS) - Integrating 3rd party software into a user facing software stack - Familiarity with frontend frameworks - we use React.js - Either good existing knowledge or ability to pick up TypeScript very fast - we are a polyglot team but majority of our code is in .ts/.js
Desirable
- Experience with payment infra like Stripe or Paypal
- Experience building applications that integrate into 3rd party websites
- Experience with e-commerce platforms like Shopify
- Experience with analysing data and building data-heavy features, or working on data warehousing and data analysis tooling
- Experience managing large automated test suites, using tools like Jest and Cypress
What the job involves
- As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, your goal is to turn ideas for new features for our pre-order eComm platform into reality, as quickly and with as much quality as makes sense at the time
- You work on all shopper and merchant facing features of Purple Dot and implement them fully (there is no frontend/backend/infra split). In practice this means that one week you will be working on our shopper facing checkout, next week it might be the interactive merchant dashboards or one of backend APIs, integrations or data products
- You work closely with the rest of our (small - 6 people, all in London) engineering team on scoping, breaking down and planning the implementation, then shipping the required code independently or leading a small temporary team formed for the duration of that project
- You participate in our lightweight process - backlog prioritization, code reviews, frequent deploys and daily standups. Have a look here to learn more about our engineering culture
- You keep in mind the availability, stability, and security of our services as we scale the number of merchants and transactions through the next two orders of magnitude
- Like every other engineer you support the software we build, including out of hours (on a predictable schedule, no more than 1 week/month)
Application process
- (1h) Meet with Ryszard our Head of Engineering to learn more about each other and this role
- (1h) Conversation about your current work - expect this to go into a lot of technical detail
- (2h) Final stage when you will pair with us on a System Design exercise. In our London office or over Zoom, the choice is yours
- (30 mins) Meet with John, one of the founders
Salary benchmarks
Our take
With supply chains facing more disruptions, like the Red Sea shipping crisis, many brands are losing sales because they can't start selling until stock arrives. Purple Dot is shaking things up by letting brands start pre-orders before they even reach the warehouse.
While it has a small team, it's mighty, and its trusted by brands like Castore, Mattel, and French Connection. It helps them sell up to 50% more before stock arrives and reduces returns by up to 40%, all while keeping customer trust high and staying fully compliant with regulations.
It's an exciting time for the company, too, having closed a successful Series A funding round in 2024. This capital will be put towards expanding the platform, with the ultimate aim of helping more brands sell before stock arrives, turning supply chain challenges into sales opportunities.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$10.5m
SERIES A
Dec 2021
$4m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $16.3m
Company benefits
- Equity options so that you can share in Purple Dot’s success
- Private healthcare
- £1500 per year to work out of our US office for a week
- £1000 per year to spend on your own holidays
- £1000 per year to spend on your own learning and development
- £250 per year to spend on products sold through Purple Dot
- Company MacBook Pro delivered in time for your first day
- Sometimes there’s free food, sometimes there’s free travel
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Madeline Parra
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Twizoo where they served as the CEO until it was acquired by Skyscanner. They then moved to Skyscanner where they worked as a Product Director and Head of Product, Hotels.
John Talbott
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded Twizoo where they served as the CTO until it was acquired by Skyscanner. They then moved to Skyscanner where they worked as a Director of Engineering.
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