Senior Backend Engineer, Spill

£80-98k

0.2 to 0.25% equity

TypeScript

Node.js

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1-5 days a week in office (Dalston, London )

Mental health support for small businesses

Job no longer available

Mental health support for small businesses

1-20 employees

B2BMental healthSaaS

Job no longer available

£80-98k

0.2 to 0.25% equity

TypeScript

Node.js

Mid and Senior level

London

More information about location

1-5 days a week in office (Dalston, London )

1-20 employees

B2BMental healthSaaS

Company mission

To reduce unnecessary emotional pain by making high-quality mental health support easily accessible for people around the world.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We are looking for someone with a track record of building great software. You should have 4+ years of experience as a software engineer.
You should have spent at least 2 of those years working seamlessly in a high-functioning cross-functional team at a technology startup/scale-up

What the job involves

As a small team, we’re all expected to take on the challenge of building a thoughtful product. When it comes to engineering, we’re looking to work with people who are interested in the process of building software that’s loved by the people who use it. We tend towards experienced people who can pick a problem and solve it.
You'll be the joint most senior backend engineer at Spill. This means that you will co-own backend architecture decisions with input from the rest of the team. It also means that you will need to make scoping decisions with the team you work in
You'll spend most of your time (70%) shipping code that delivers value to our users. You'll spend some of your time (15%) collaborating with product managers and other engineers to make sure that we're making the right prioritisation decisions and tradeoffs. You'll spend some of your time (15%) collaborating with senior engineers’ to make larger architectural decisions
Build the backend for various user-facing features
Design and build secure systems handling sensitive data from our users and clients
Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for our service so that we can better respond to operational incidents
Scale our service via architectural changes as well as infrastructure improvements

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Some emotional pain — like heartbreak or taking a risk and failing — can help us to learn and grow, but much of it is unnecessary: prolonged low mood, imposter syndrome and crippling social anxiety for instance are entirely negative. Spill believes that the solution to unnecessary emotional pain is already here — it just hasn't been evenly distributed yet.

Counselling and therapy have existed for over a century, and have been shown time and time again to dramatically increase emotional stability in as little as one or two sessions, and reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety as successfully as antidepressants. Spill's solution is to provide text-based chat therapy as an employee benefit, allowing their customers' staff to access BACP-registered (and equivalently qualified) counsellors on demand.

Spill aspires to become 'everything that the NHS, private health insurance and employee assistance programmes are not' - easy to access, well designed, and 100% unintimidating. It is currently working with over 600 businesses, including Rightmove and Monzo, and is delivering more than 30,000 counselling sessions per year.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

50% female employees

67% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4)

Trustpilot (4.8)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Jan 2021

$2.7m

SEED

Dec 2018

$1.1m

SEED

Total funding: $3.8m

Company benefits

Access to Spill therapists
Lots of holiday: 30 days holiday (excl. bank holidays) plus your birthday off

Company values

Keep headcount low
Run an honest business
The person closest to the problem chooses how to solve the problem
Hire people who are brave and take ownership

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Calvin Benton

(Founder & CEO)

Studied Economics at the University of Sheffield before founding Spill in 2017.

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