Full Stack Engineer, Sona
Elixir + LiveView
£75-95k
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People Operating System for Frontline Teams
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People Operating System for Frontline Teams
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
£75-95k
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More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Solve the unique challenges of frontline work with technology that empowers every employee.
Role
Who you are
- Typically when somebody starts working with us, they have strong experience with one side of the stack and then learn the other part on the job
- You have some professional experience in Elixir
- You have a strong preference towards taking ownership, making sure you’re clear on what you’re doing and why and then communicating progress over awaiting instruction
- You’re excited about building beautiful user interfaces using Tailwind and Liveview
- You have a focus on “getting it shipped” and when given the choice between “complicated and shiny” vs “get something simple in front of a user”, you always choose the latter
- You’re in a country which is GMT +/- 3 and fluent communicating both verbally and in writing in English
- You’re able to attend in-person company meetups 2-3 times per year, these will be around 4 days long and usually require flying both in and outside of Europe
What the job involves
- We fundamentally believe that the best products are built when small, cross functional, autonomous teams are empowered to solve business problems as they see fit
- You’ll be joining a pod which owns a particular area of the product and movement between product areas is encouraged and easy
- Our stack is built primarily around Elixir, with a Phoenix LiveView web frontend (PETAL stack) and a GraphQL API for communicating with our React Native mobile app
- We think in terms of “T Shaped” developers
- This means that while all of us have some ability across the “full stack”, most of us have one side of the stack (e.g. Elixir or React Native) we’re stronger on and spend the bulk of our time on
Our take
80% of people don’t work at desks, but the technology for deskless workers only attracts 1% of all enterprise software investment. Consequently, little software has been designed to benefit the frontline. Sona is a workforce technology startup setting out to help solve this issue, building an all-in-one platform specially designed to empower frontline workers and help their employers retain staff and operate more efficiently.
By using its app, users can view and claim shifts, communicate with their colleagues, and book holidays. Moreover, Sona has additional modules for HR, Payroll, and Engagement, so customers can manage all of their people operations in one place, or integrate with their existing tools.
Sona is an early-stage startup, yet already counts big names across Social Care, Hospitality, and the Charities sector who have combined to book millions of shifts on the Sona platform.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"Sona strikes a good balance between giving me the trust and autonomy to do my best work, while being on hand to support and unblock me where..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2024
$27.5m
SERIES A
Mar 2022
$7m
SEED
Total funding: $36.7m
Company benefits
- 4.5 day standard working week
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- Remote first and flexible working
- 35 days annual leave (25 days standard plus 10 flexible public holiday days)
- Pension contributions matched up to 5%
- Enhanced parental leave & pay - 26 weeks full pay primary parent / 8 weeks full pay secondary parent
- Co-working space stipend (if you don't live in London)
- Quarterly all expenses paid team retreats
- The latest Macbook and equipment for your home office
- Professional development budget
- Unlimited free books
- Comprehensive health insurance via Bupa
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ben Dixon
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Associate - Consulting at PWC and Software Engineer at Thorlabs. Also, Co-Founder & CTO at Catapult Ventures Limited for 6 years.
Oli Johnson
(Co-founder)Previously Associate at NEO Capital and Investment Manager at Baugur Group. Co-Founder at Catapult for 6 years.
Steffen Wulff Petersen
(Co-founder)Previously Investment Banker at Goldman Sachs for 2 years. Since then has been Co-Founder & Managing Director at Lazada Group and Co-Founder at Catapult.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Sona
- Fully remote work and total control over your schedule means you can excel at Sona no matter where, when, or how you like to work. We also offer extended parental leave to everyone.
- We're partnered with the Women in Tech Forum, a membership platform dedicated to supporting and accelerating the careers of women. Optional memberships are available to all women and allies at Sona to access their wide range of events, masterclasses, articles, and more.
- Salary transparency across all of our job postings means your offer is based on your experience and interview performance, not your previous salary or your negotiating skills.
- We use structured interview processes and assessment criteria to remove as much bias from our process as possible
- We do all of our collaborative work in public channels, which means everyone gets a say and the recognition they deserve, and nobody's out of the loop.
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