Platform Software Engineer, Let's Do This
£58-74k
In office Tuesday - Thursday
3+ days a week in office
Marketplace for endurance sports
Be an early applicant
Marketplace for endurance sports
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£58-74k
In office Tuesday - Thursday
3+ days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the online company to take people offline.
Role
Who you are
- Experience or interest in platform engineering practices, such as creating shared services, improving CI/CD pipelines, or managing infrastructure as code (IaC), with a strong emphasis on developing tools and systems that empower developers to deliver features faster and with greater confidence
- Prior exposure to our stack (JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Node & AWS) is a plus. However, we know the best engineers can pick up new tools quickly and a growth mindset coupled with strong fundamentals is more important than knowledge of specific frameworks or languages
- You enjoy building products in cross-discipline teams using an iterative approach, driven by user feedback and data insight and care deeply about providing a great user experience to customers
- You’re not afraid of ambiguity and thrive when helping set the direction of the team
- You understand the importance of prioritisation in your work to ensure a good balance between business impact and code quality
- You have interests that span the full stack - from building performant web experiences to debugging traffic latency in our AWS stack
What the job involves
- At Let’s Do This, our Software Engineers are an integral part of our product development process
- We are not a company that believes engineers should be hidden away from decisions, churning out code for features decided from upon high
- Instead, our Engineers form strong bonds with cross-functional peers in Product Management, Data Science, Product Design and others to become experts working full stack across vertical slices of the product rather than horizontally along technology lines
- As a Software Engineer, you’ll get to work with a range of new and emerging technology and tools but also help to evolve what we use in the future
- We value engineering knowledge over specific coding languages, thus consider people from many backgrounds, but we are mainly TypeScript focused
- Node, AWS Lambda and Typescript to write our backend (micro)services
- React and Apollo to create engaging user interfaces
- MongoDB for most persistent data storage & Amazon EventBridge for our async event bus
- Docker and Amazon ECS to schedule and run our services
- Collaborate with Platform and Data Engineering teams to design, build, and optimize core infrastructure, developer tooling, and data pipelines, focusing on increasing developer velocity, improving scalability, and ensuring the reliability of our product
- Every day you’ll be working closely with peers in the wider product org to define the future of the product
- Engaging with designers to build and improve the UX of our core products
- Working with our data scientists to design, run and verify your work using state of the art experimentation and feature flagging frameworks
- Actively contributing to every stage in the product development lifecycle, and owning the development of new features from conception to completion
- Shaping the future of our tech platform across the full stack
- Working in a small, tight-knit team with a rapid iteration cycle - typically a week
Application process
- We usually respond within a week
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Let's Do This is a marketplace for endurance events and, according to them, it's the largest in the world. By using its platform, people can find out details and exclusive information about different sporting events as well as being able to easily register. Let's Do This has already listed information about tens of thousands of events across the UK, US, and Australia on its platform since its establishment.
The company has successfully identified an under-served segment of the sports, leisure & experience market. In supporting people taking part in marathons and multi-sport events around the world, it is disrupting the fragmented £24bn global market for endurance challenges.
It boasts investors including Usain Bolt and Serena Williams, and the funding its raised will go towards expanding in the UK and the US as it looks to cement its market position.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
24% female employees
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
My opinions are valued
"At Let's Do This, all questions are valued and given a fair and honest response. This could be larger questions about company goals, values and..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2022
$60m
SERIES B
Nov 2019
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $81.4m
Company benefits
- Race Entry
- Family Leave
- Equipment
- Option Plan
- Learning and Development Budget
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Bupa Medical and Dental Cover
- Hybrid Working Environment
- Dog Friendly Office
Company values
- The Team Triumphs - Turn up for your team mates
- Make the Call - Back the expert, decide, move on
- Radical Candor - Constant feedback from a place of care
- Start with Participants - We obsess over the people who are living it
- Relentlessly Long Termist- It’s an ultra, plan for it
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Alex Rose
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied Chemical Engineering and Management at the University of Cambridge. Previously Associate at Oliver Wyman for 3 years.
Sam Browne
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Theology, Philosophy and Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Previously Co-Founder & COO at IGO Adventures for 1 year.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Let's Do This
Andrea Bustamante Vivas (People Director )
- We have a company wide commitment to making progress with our DEI initiatives, and we look forward to making a continued effort in this area
- DEI is at the heart of LDT's future. From recruitment to internal culture to our product, we hare reviewing and implementing ambitious DEI targets, and are working hard to achieve them.
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