Senior Software Engineer, Zapnito
Frontend
£60-85k
Knowledge‐sharing and expert community platform
Job no longer available
Knowledge‐sharing and expert community platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-85k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help event organisers, expert networks, and membership & subscription businesses to deliver expertise on‐demand and build sustainable communities.
Role
Who you are
- 5 or more professional years experience with Ember.js, or another modern JavaScript web framework (React, Angular, Vue, etc.)
- Experience working on a SaaS product or platform
- Experience with writing automated tests (e.g. Jest, Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, AVA, tape)
- Experience using Git in a professional/workplace environment
- Experience of, or a willingness to learn Typescript
- A solid understanding in core web and browser concepts (e.g. how the browser parses and constructs a web page)
- A solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts (including concepts like promises, closures, types, and ES6)
- An understanding of functional CSS such as Tailwindcss
- Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
- Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
- Experience with performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- GraphQL and Tailwindcss experience would be desirable
What the job involves
- Develop features and improvements to the platform in a secure, well-tested, and performant way
- Work with Product Management and other stakeholders (Backend, UX, etc.) to iterate on new features
- Craft code that meets our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Consistently ship small features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Help improve the overall experience of our product through improving the quality of the Frontend features
- Help identify areas of improvements in the code base and help contribute to make it better
- Learn, collaborate, and teach other Frontend Engineers. Everyone can contribute something new to the team regardless of how long they’ve been in the industry
- Fix prioritized issues from the issue tracker. These are typically bugs listed in a Github issue with an attached severity and priority label
- Advocate for improvements to product quality, security, and performance that have particular impact across your team
- Solve technical problems of high scope and complexity
- Exert influence on the overall vision and long-range goals of the frontend team. This could be technical and/or product focused
- Experience with performance and optimization problems, particularly at large scale, and a demonstrated ability to diagnose and prevent these problems
- Help define and improve our internal standards for style, maintainability, and best practices for a high-scale web environment. Maintain and advocate for these standards through code review
- Provide mentorship for Junior and Intermediate Engineers in your section to help them grow in their technical responsibilities and remove blockers
- Consistently ship moderately sized features and improvements with minimal guidance and support from other team members. Collaborate with the team on larger projects
- Work closely with the Zapnito Customer Support teams with troubleshooting and bug fixing where appropriate
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Online communities are are huge part of the internet - as of 2022, 76% of internet users visited an online community of some kind. For brands, though, these communities are often difficult to utilise. This is where Zapnito comes in. Zapnito is hoping to carve out a new niche within the market by offering brands the chance to build their own online communities and connect with the people who really matter to their business.
The idea of allowing brands to directly influence their followers is not a new one - for example, Reddit offers brands the chance to connect with their followers via dedicated Q&A sessions. However, Zapnito's product is unique in that it allows brands to directly shape their own branded communities. Furthermore, it is also able to access a more diverse potential market than most forum platforms. For example, its partnership with Wilmington Healthcare has created a verified peer-to-peer space for UK doctors - something which previously has never existed online to the same extent. Zapnito's ability to serve niche communities as well as big brands could be a huge asset going forward.
In a world where trust in established social media platforms is beginning to slip, and where customer expectations are continually rising, Zapnito's community SaaS platform could be well set for significant growth in the near future, especially with its funding and customer portfolio that boasts the likes of Elsevier, Informa, and McGrawHill.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2021
$4.4m
May 2020
$0.5m
Total funding: $4.9m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Flexible work arrangements
- Pension scheme
- Leading maternity & paternity policy
- Leading family care time benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- 5 days family and charity paid time off
- Christmas / NY close down
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Charles Thiede
(CEO)With a background in e-commerce and strategic development, Charles has also spent over 3 years as a Mentor at Women Who Tech and served as Interim CPO and Digital Systems Director at Nature Publishing Group.
Jon Beer
(CTO)They joined Informa in 2007, first working as a Senior Java and Web Developer. They later became Head of Technology Architecture and then Director of Technology Architecture and Strategy. They left this role to co-found Zapnito.
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