Senior Back-End Software Engineer, Beacon
£95.6k
3-4 days a week in office (Shoreditch)
A modern CRM for charities
Posted today
A modern CRM for charities
21-100 employees
Posted today
£95.6k
3-4 days a week in office (Shoreditch)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To transform how charities work.
Role
Who you are
- At least 8 years of relevant experience with - and a passion for - using TypeScript on the Back-End to build the infrastructure that supports beautiful desktop web applications.
- Practical experience with Serverless architectures (Lambda or Google Cloud Run).
- Have worked closely with databases, fine tuning them for performance and stability.
- Understand the challenges involved with scaling out distributed systems and can talk to why things like queues, caches and effective monitoring are all important.
- Proficient with the different types of persistence stores (Redis, Object storage, MySql etc) and when to use one over another.
What the job involves
- You will be driving the development of the Back-End of the Beacon product, with a focus on building scalable systems that power the rest of the stack. You'll work directly with the founders and our existing engineering team to design, develop, and maintain a sophisticated and modern web application’s infrastructure.
- Focusing on the development and scaling of Beacon’s database infrastructure, using Amazon RDS, Google BigQuery and Google Spanner.
- Driving the innovation and scalability of Beacon’s whole cloud-based infrastructure, including queues, caches, and system monitoring and alerting tools.
- Working closely with other engineers to come up with creative and innovative solutions to challenging technical problems.
- Making use of the latest tools where appropriate. We work with AI tooling to aid developer workflows.
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.
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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
- 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)
- Share options scheme - everyone can own a part of the business
Company values
- Social good
- Sustainable growth
- Transparency
Company HQ
London, UK
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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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