Full-stack Engineer, StuRents
£45-60k
2-5 days a week in office (South Bank, London or Oxford Street, Manchester)
The UK's leading student accommodation search, property management and data insights platform.
Open for applications
The UK's leading student accommodation search, property management and data insights platform.
21-100 employees
Open for applications
£45-60k
2-5 days a week in office (South Bank, London or Oxford Street, Manchester)
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help students find accommodation quickly and easily.
Role
Who you are
- You're an engineer with commercial experience, who enjoys collaborating across the business to define features, build systems, and support the team in resolving problems. You're passionate about these skills and want an organisation to invest in them for the long term
- You understand the software development lifecycle and have taken part in shipping software to production within an agile environment. You want to build things that people use, learn how they use them, and keep making them better
- You're driven by delivering high quality work. You're keen to work collaboratively with the team during pair programming, code review and prototyping sessions
- You've built framework-based web applications in one of PHP, TypeScript or another modern language. This includes being able to use SQL to efficiently store & query application data
- You're excited about sharing your knowledge and not afraid to ask questions when you have them. You're comfortable learning in public and being able to frame problems in a way that guides others in how to help you best
- You're confident in your experience and ability to investigate issues, document, and propose solutions for reported problems
- You communicate clearly with people in technical and non-technical fields. You seek to understand where others are coming from and can raise your point of view. You know where to push back and where to compromise
Desirable
- You've designed and developed B2B, FinTech, or other heavily data-driven applications
- Good understanding of APIs - you know a good design from a bad one, and can work with both anyway. You've had a go at building APIs and understand their value
- You've been involved with deployment to production and have a strong understanding of CI/CD workflows
- Good knowledge of web design: CSS, Tailwind, UI components, page speed
- You have heard of common web security issues, such as the OWASP Top 10. You've worked with secure authentication systems, and even tried your hand at breaking in to the applications you've built
- You've worked with LLMs and understand both their benefits and limitations. You're happy utilising them where helpful but equally happy to switch them off and build things by hand
- You like to tinker - never settling for something that's not quite right, always looking to use the best tool, create the best configuration or explore how a new technology fits into your workflow
What the job involves
- Working with other engineers, or solo, to build tools that solve problems for us and our customers. When this involves writing code, you'll ensure that it works reliably, is easy to maintain, and is well tested
- Getting alongside product and design team members to help shape new features, improve existing ones and keep things performing well for the end user. You'll sometimes spend more time talking about a feature than writing the code
- Our tech stack is modern PHP (8.5), Symfony components, React & Redux Toolkit with TypeScript, OpenAPI and a range of AWS services for hosted & distributed systems. We store data across MySQL, DynamoDB and S3
- You'll have the opportunity to explore and grow your skills within our wider service architecture - for example: utilising NextJS, AWS Lambda with Typescript or Rust for microservices, and CubeJS for data analytics
- You'll work with plenty of APIs - we integrate with many third parties, and have to understand their systems to get the best from them. We produce APIs for data management & reporting, and you'll get exposure to how we document these, support integrations, and build SDKs
- You'll learn how our service teams resolve customer issues by investigating reports alongside them and contributing your perspective on solutions. We use Datadog extensively to monitor for issues and track down causes, and we use Sentry for error triage and alerting
- Making noise internally about what you and your fellow engineers are building - this can include presenting to engineering roundtables, running a session for the company-wide lunch & learn academy, or taking part in showcase, where each team shows off what they've been working on and what they've learned from it
Application process
- Apply here, if your experience seems relevant we'll invite you to submit a basic pre-technical assessment (Scored by Mike Lehan our CTO - Hiring manager)
- 1st Round interview with Mike (~60 mins) to learn a little more about you and do some pair programming
- Final round interview with Mike & Andrea (our people person) to chat about your experience and cultural contribution (~90 mins)
Our take
StuRents enable students to find accommodation. Having been established in 2008, the company has grown organically since then and now lists over 700,000 rooms in over 100 towns and cities across the UK.
Unlike other rental platforms, like Rightmove and Zoopla, StuRents doesn't just allow agencies to use their platform. Instead, they also accept private landlords and purpose-built student accommodation operators, ensuring a broad range of options are made available to house-hunting students. Ultimately, this has levelled the playing field for these groups to compete for student tenants.
Moreover, StuRents distinguishes itself further by offering an end to end property management software (Concurrent.co.uk) to facilitate the full range of operational needs, such as contract signing, rent collection, referencing and deposit protection.
The data generated by the marketing and end-to-end services also allows StuRents to offer industry-leading research and data insights to institutional clients such as banks, developers and real-estate investors.
Overall, this approach has successfully enabled StuRents to stand out from both the bigger, more established competitors as well as the increasing number of specialist property platforms. Its success is supported by the fact it is now the leading rental platform in the student letting market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"If I could go back in time, I'd apply for StuRents again. Good team that make a good product, valued by the clients. Every day there's something new..."
Company benefits
- Company pension contributions (with access to increased company pension contribution after 3 years of employment).
- Work from home opportunities (maximum 3 days per week).
- 24 days holiday (excl. bank holidays). Increasing to 26 days after 3 years, an additional day each year thereafter up to 30 days per year.
- Work from abroad for up to 2 weeks a year after 1 year of employment.
- Access to a private practising UK GP plus contributions to annual eye tests & flu jabs.
- 24/7 counselling advice and information line + 6 private therapy sessions.
- Up to £650 per year to invest in your Individual learning after 1.5 years of employment.
- Access to our employee discounts with over 3,000 exclusive discounts and offers.
- Monthly team lunches and quarterly all-company socials.
- £360 allowance for home office desk and chair for remote working.
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Micheal Rainsford
(Co-Founder)After graduating from Durham, they spent 5 years as a Commodities Trader at Morgan Stanley, leaving this role in 2014 to work on StuRents full time.
Tom Walker
(Co-Founder)Tom spent time at PwC and Merrill Lynch following graduation from Durham University and started working on StuRents in 2014.
Mike Lehan
(Co-Founder & CTO)Mike has been working in Web Application Development for 12+ years. They have a strong desire to train & mentor the next generation of web engineers, and is a regular speaker at meetups & conferences.
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