Backend Engineer, Skin + Me
Node / Typescript
Offers equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
Personalised Skincare
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Personalised Skincare
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
101-200 employees
Company mission
To change the face of skincare.
Role
Who you are
- Backend depth: solid, recent, hands-on experience building backend services and APIs in Node.js/TypeScript. A non-trivial piece of work you can walk us through and explain well
- Good fundamentals: sound data modelling, sensible API design, and an instinct for testing
- Care where it counts: a defect in these services can mean a wrong prescription or a mis-shipped order, so you build defensively
- Enough frontend to be useful: comfortable making React changes when a feature needs it (frontend won't be your main focus)
- The stack: Node.js and TypeScript; relational databases (MySQL ideal); some exposure to AWS/Docker is a plus
- Clear communication: much of our work is written (PRs, docs), so explaining a decision crisply matters
- Roughly 3-6 years building software in production. We read for depth in your area, not years
- Great engineers come from all kinds of backgrounds. If this resonates, even if you don't tick every box, we'd love to hear from you
What the job involves
- You’ll join the team behind our core commerce and clinical journey: the ecom stack, consultation engine, patient and prescription systems, and order generation. This is where customers discover us, complete a clinical consultation, subscribe, and receive their personalised treatment, at real consumer scale
- On our Node and React stack, that's the storefront behind Renew + Me, Skin + Me Germany and the new verticals we're launching, so there's real greenfield work as we expand into new brands and markets
- We're hiring a Backend Engineer to go deep on the server side of this system in our Node / TypeScript stack: the APIs, data models and services behind consultations, prescriptions and orders. You'll learn fast alongside experienced engineers who'll back your growth, and you'll be comfortable making frontend (React) changes when a feature needs it, but backend is your craft
- Build the services behind the journey: APIs, data models and services powering consultations, prescriptions and order generation, with support from senior engineers
- Ship and own: take backend features from ticket to production and keep them fast, correct and healthy once they're live
- Write code others build on: clean, well-tested, and clear enough for the next person to pick up
Application process
- Intro call with our engineers (25-30 mins), including a short system-design chat
- A conversation with our Director of Software Engineering (30 mins)
- A practical take-home task, in your own time
- Onsite at our Paddington HQ to review your task and meet the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Back in 2018, Skin + Me's founders identified a huge problem in the world of skincare: people don’t just struggle with their skin – they struggle with how they’re supposed to deal with it. With no truly effective solutions available, the company set out to build a pioneering online dermatology service that provides personalised skincare.
Skin + Me takes customers through a simple online medical consultation and work with dermatologists to prescribe a treatment, personalised to the individual. Part of the company's unique selling point is that its made-to-order formulation arrives through a subscription box each month and comes in a ‘Daily Doser’ – a specially designed bottle that dispenses the exact amount of the product needed for daily application.
Skin + Me is supported by a team of dermatologists, pharmacists and direct-to-consumer experts, which allows it to deliver across the business - from skin science to building the technology platform behind it. The company's growth plans include continual development of its services while ensuring it sticks to its ethos: providing desired, effective, and personalised skincare.
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2023
$13.5m
SERIES B
Sep 2019
$10.8m
SEED
Total funding: $24.3m
Company benefits
- 25 Days Holiday (+ all the usual Bank Holidays) - It's important to take a break and recharge, that's why we offer a generous holiday allowance
- Free Breakfast & Lunch - It’s important you are well fueled for the day so we've got your breakfast and lunch covered. Plus drinks and snacks are available too!
- Hybrid Working Policy - We are all remote on Wednesday and Thursday. When we are in the office, our core hours are 10-4. If you're an early bird you can do 7-4, and if you're a night owl 10-7. Need more flexibility around your life? Just let us know
- Equity - We offer a competitive salary and a generous share award package that means every employee has a stake in the business. We really are all in this together
- Healthcare Cash Plan - Taking care of your physical & mental health is important. That’s why you’ll be able to claim money back for dental, optical and physio costs, alongside 24/7 access to mental health support and more
- Culture club – Our culture club team meets every week to make sure we celebrate our big wins and milestones too, with parties, surprises and more.
- Workplace Nursery Benefit - For working parents, we’re proud to offer assistance, helping you save on nursery fees. The workplace nursery benefit allows you to save tax and National Insurance on the full cost of your nursery fees each month
- Development Budget - £500 per person, per year for any learning, training and development opportunities. Courses, books, software – if it helps you in your role, we’ll help you get it
- Plus the usual suspects - You’ll get discounted skincare for you, and 10 friends + family, too. You can also take advantage of our cycle to work scheme, a generous employee referral scheme and a dog-friendly office
Company values
- Honesty, always - We default to open. We’re not afraid of uncomfortable conversations. We stand up for what we believe & don’t shy away from a challenge. We share knowledge and feedback. We’re all about transparency
- In It Together - We treat others the way we want to be treated. We value everyone’s voice. We embrace diversity . We’re not afraid to fail and we’re open about mistakes (we’re all human). We celebrate the successes as a team and we have fun!
- Make An Impact - We make decisions with value and impact in mind. We’re passionate about doing the right thing. We hold ourselves and each other accountable. We stay focused on our goals. We take calculated risks
- Never Sit Still - We are motivated to make a positive difference in our customers’ lives. We embrace the unknown. We’re curious and restless, bringing passion to everything we do. We’re adaptable and open-minded. We’re constantly learning new ways of doing things
Company HQ
2 Eastbourne Terrace, W2 6LG
Articles
Leadership
Horatio Cary
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former engineer at Graze prior to co-founding Skin+Me.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Skin + Me
Georgia Farris (People Manager)
- Championing equality and the gender divide at work is something everyone at Team Skin + Me cares about
- We believe that people from different backgrounds & cultures bring fresh ideas, ways of thinking and approaches which make the way work is undertaken more effective and efficient (as well as more fun & interesting!)
- We believe that everyone should be free to show up as their very best, most authentic self, however they identify
- We believe that equality is about human empathy, continuous education and living our values
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