Senior Software Engineer, Radical
£65-80k
Messaging and collaboration platform for businesses
Job no longer available
Messaging and collaboration platform for businesses
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£65-80k
1-20 employees
Company mission
Radical's mission is to assist every company out there to be the best, and most collaborative, version of itself.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a senior engineer to join our team and help us build something great
- Our ideal teammate cares more about getting things done more than making things perfect
- Likes delivering features and seeing how users respond to them
- Maintains mastery of their tools (Git, TypeScript, etc.)
- Feels comfortable in a startup environment where things change all the time
- Wants to work on a team that has Silicon Valley DNA, but European values
- Feels excited by having challenging work
- Creates clarity from ambiguity
- Finds multiple ways to solve hard problems and always chooses the most pragmatic solution
What the job involves
- For this role, the expectation is that you’ll work alongside other senior technical team members and more junior folks, completing tasks and contributing to the technical direction of the company – from CSS to server-side logic to database schemas to AWS infrastructure tradeoffs
- You’ll be landing code daily and releasing code to production multiple times per week
- To us, a senior person should be able to handle key, unsolved problems that unblock company success. That might mean designing the schema for a new product feature. Or it might involve implementing a complex user interface using modern React and hooks
- We expect our senior developers to be hungry generalists who can connect their work with company-level priorities
- We’re looking for someone who has a clear track record of success at shipping big things and contributing to highly productive teams
- At Radical, we treat code review and mentorship of our team members as a first-class priority. Because of that, we expect our senior developers to support junior folks
- We want to build a team of senior engineers who are exceptional technically as well as interpersonally
- We value EQ, IQ, and pragmatism equally for our senior team members
Application process
- We don't judge engineers by number of years of experience. It doesn't matter if you don't already speak idiomatic TypeScript. Some of our engineers have advanced degrees or PhDs. Some of us dropped out of university. For us, it’s not about on-paper credentials. We're looking for someone who is eager to learn and excited to deliver a new product to the world. We're much more concerned with your curiosity than how long you've been doing the job
- Building a strong, diverse team is hard, but it's something we're taking really seriously. At the moment, we're a team of ten who speak 5 different languages and hail from 6 different countries. We deeply value people who can bring more diversity to our team. At the root of our company culture are things: pragmatism, technical excellence, and emotional intelligence. We value them equally. Our gender diversity isn’t great at the moment, but we’re actively working on it
- Radical is a product-first company building tools that make modern day team collaboration better than it has ever been. Our culture is open, nurturing, and transparent. We want to hire brilliant people and give them all the freedom and context they need to do great work. At Radical, we believe in hiring for talent, hard work, and team alignment. You won't find managers chasing people for expense reports or requiring PTO approvals. We care about the work our team gets done, not about what time they clock in or which days they take off
- Because we're early stage, our most core value is iteration over perfection. We ship new features at least weekly. We're constantly trying to learn what we've missed or what we've gotten wrong. The team is curious, switched-on, and creative. Day by day, we're getting closer to a sticky product that our users love
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Radical is messaging platform for companies, seeking to enhance collaboration within teams and with external partners. It is a tool to replace email with a more adaptive and useful messaging platform allowing voice notes, annotation and various smart attachment options. The aim of this is to allow immediate context to communications within a team, speeding up the whole collaborative process.
Since March 2020, many companies have adjusted the way they work, using platforms like Google Meet, Slack to aid their working day.
However, the biggest comparable presence in the market is Slack, messaging software used by companies like Vodafone, Lyft and IBM. Radical are just getting started but will have to set themselves apart from the competition to make a splash in a competitive market
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Company benefits
- Early finish Fridays
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Peterborough, UK
Leadership
Jackson Gabbard
(CTO)Previously Engineer at Synthace and Facebook.
Nimrod Priell
(CEO)Previously Research Scientist Manager and Product Manager at Facebook.
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