Senior Software Engineer, Butternut Box

• Strong customer-focused and product-minded approach to building software that is supported by interacting with customers to understand their needs and are used to prioritising outcomes and impact over all else
• Comfortable with ambiguity, adept at navigating product challenges, and actively input into shaping product vision. You thrive in early ideation stages, share work-in-progress (such as drafts or MVPs) to gather feedback when it's about 70% complete, and easily adapt based on input. You have a constant drive to ship products quickly and iterate on them
• Comfortable managing technical debt pragmatically with an ability to strategically balance resilience, testing, and documentation with making quick trade-offs in order to ship products that prioritise impact or implementation
• Passion for startups and small teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Obsessed with dogs!

• As the most senior engineer of a small ‘skunkworks’ style AI team within our broader Product Engineering teams, you will work closely with our Director of Engineering, Head of Product, engineers, product managers, designers and stakeholders to help solve customers' problems where we think generative AI can help make a difference and directly impact their (and their dog's) daily lives
• Work directly with stakeholders to iteratively and quickly ship improvements to AI tools, ranging from tooling to improve the efficiency our Customer Love team and help customers get answers quicker, to automation tooling for internal teams, to working closely with other teams to deliver digital product improvements using genAI (i.e re-imagining experiences with customers to be built from the ground up with genAI)
• Constantly have an MVP mindset so we can test and learn quickly, shipping early versions of products to rapidly get feedback
• Work with our Director of Engineering every day directly on AI projects
• Work with our Head of Product to help shape the AI roadmap
• Gain real-world experience with cutting edge tools, deploying them at scale
• Truly embody our #DedicatedandDetermined value, taking on significant challenges with the promise of seeing incredible results

• Portfolio review: The hiring manager will review
• Initial call (45 minutes): Quick introductory chat with our Recruiter
• Take home task: This will be sent to you via email and will be used to understand more about your technical skills
• Technical interview (60 minutes): In-person interview where you’ll be asked to run through your task and discuss practical examples from your experience
• Final interviews (75 minutes): In-person in our office in West London where you’ll get a chance to meet your peers and members of the Senior Leadership team

• Butternut Discount - Many of our squad have a special dog(s) in their lives; so we are delighted to offer a generous discount so that more dogs can enjoy Butternut and live healthier & happier lives
• 25 days holiday (plus 8 bank holidays) and an additional day for every year of service
• 5 paid 'paws' days per year to support to learning and/or wellbeing
• £500 personal learning & development budget
• Enhanced parental leave (52 weeks’ maternity leave inclusive of 26 weeks fully paid and 6 weeks fully paid paternity/secondary leave)
• Flexible working hours and work from home options
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension with NEST
• Private Medical Insurance with Vitality & Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
• Time off for fertility treatments and pregnancy loss
• Paid sabbaticals for squad members with 5 or more years at Butternut
• Discounted gym access through MyGymDiscounts
• Lots of office dogs (Ajax, Brio, Basil, Chorizo, Lenny, Jasper, Peggy, Pip and many more….)

Total funding: $475m

Nowadays, consumers are not only getting more fussy about what they eat, but also what their pets eat. Butternut Box caters to this trend for the 11 million pet dogs in the UK, with dishes cooked with fresh ingredients and portioned according to the dog's breed, weight, sex and exercise routine.