Senior Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer, Beacon
React, Node, PostGres
£91.9k
4 Day work week
4 days a week in office (Shoreditch, London)
A modern CRM for charities
Job no longer available
A modern CRM for charities
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£91.9k
4 Day work week
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
- You’ll have at least 8 years of relevant experience with - and a passion for - using JavaScript to build beautiful desktop web applications and the infrastructure that supports them. You'll love trying out new ways of doing things
- You'll need at least 5 years of direct practical experience with our core technologies:
- React
- Node.js
- SQL Databases (We use Postgres)
Desirable
- Material UI
- Writing tests with Jest and Playwright
- TypeScript
- GraphQL
- Storybook
- AWS Lambda
- Postgres
- Amazon Aurora
- Google BigQuery
- SQS (or other queueing architecture. We love queues!)
What the job involves
- Your focus will be building and maintaining the entire Beacon product, from infrastructure to interface. You'll work directly with our Head of Product and our existing engineering team to design, develop, and maintain a sophisticated and modern web application.
- Design and implement improvements to the core of the Beacon product
- Write clean, maintainable code to deliver on the Beacon product roadmap
- Identify and fix bugs in the existing system
- Take ownership of features from UI/UX design to building the backend endpoints that you need
- Work closely with other engineers to come up with creative and innovative solutions to challenging technical problems
Application process
- 1. Introductory call with CTO
- 2. 1 Hour video interview with CTO and another engineer
- 3. Morning in the Beacon office - meet the engineering team and work through two coding tasks
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 take tremendous pride in working directly with customers who work to create a more equal society like Equality Now, Bloody Good Period, and African Gifted Foundation
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