Senior Software Engineer II, Koru Kids
Outstanding childcare for modern families
Job no longer available
Outstanding childcare for modern families
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
21-100 employees
Company mission
Koru Kids mission is making it easier and more affordable for families to access high quality childcare.
Role
Who you are
- You have led software projects of various sizes in the past, capable of breaking down nebulous problems into manageable pieces with your fellow team members
- Track record of making a difference with software solutions that have created opportunities at company level
- You love shipping code and seeing how it performs in production and are therefore passionate about delivery pipelines, A/B testing, real-time analytics and monitoring tools
- Healthy disrespect of processes over just doing the right thing
- You are customer centric and work well with product managers, getting actively involved in strategy formation and customer and market research
- You have examples of where you have developed other people in your team
- You put the squad before yourself and the business before the squad - it’s not about personal recognition
Desirable
- Bonus points for experience in childcare or marketplace technology business
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Engineer to join our product engineering team and build the world's best childcare service
- If you are the sort of person with a track record of seeing how software and systems thinking can really impact a business
- Who thrives in an environment that loves to see you succeed. This is the position for you
- Be pushy about producing well crafted reliable software
- Innovate and experiment, at pace
- Work with super bright, less experienced team members and accelerate their careers (and the squads’ capability)
- Be a major contributor to the technical and product vision for your squad
- From a tech perspective, it’s Ruby (on Rails), JS (React) for the main platform - hosted on Heroku with GCP bits for serverless, pub-sub and data warehouse. We’ve also got an app that’s built in React native
Our take
The childcare sector in the UK is under pressure, with prices rising and nurseries closing down. The way of finding nannies hasn't seen innovation in decades, and there hasn't been an introduction of technology to drive great experiences.
Koru Kids has focused on after-school childcare, allowing them to hone their product and solve one of the most neglected areas. This is specifically important in major cities like London, where parents are often working longer hours.
The business takes out all the hassle of finding a nanny. The solution isn't simply technology: Koru Kids also interviews, trains and references its nannies, and takes care of contracts, holiday pay and taxes. This operational complexity builds a competitive advantage.
When aiming to create the best childcare service in the world, quality will always remain important. Koru Kids has made sure to grow carefully. The company boasts a strict process and low acceptance rates, to ensure standards remain high.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Aug 2019
$13.5m
SERIES A
May 2018
$4.7m
SEED
Total funding: $19m
Company benefits
- 50% off Koru Kids childcare. up to a value of £7,000 per year as a taxable benefit
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities. We're a remote-first company and welcome applications from anywhere in the UK
- Potential for share option equity
- MacBook and home office allowance
- Video therapy sessions through Spill, to support positive mental health
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Leadership
Rachel Carrell
(CEO)Previously CEO of DrThom, a healthcare company which I grew to 1.3 million paying users in 3 countries. Before that they spent six years at McKinsey. Have a DPhil from Oxford, where they were a Rhodes Scholar.
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