Full-Stack Engineer, Vivacity
£50-65k
2-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
AI-powered traffic insights
Open for applications
AI-powered traffic insights
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£50-65k
2-5 days a week in office (Old Street, London)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower cities to put sustainable communities at the heart of their transport networks.
Role
Who you are
- You bring energy, curiosity, and a bias for action, and you love collaborating to achieve impact for customers. You have significant commercial experience or have worked on substantial projects with Typescript and/or Go, and are comfortable with Git and the command line. You communicate clearly, enjoy tackling unfamiliar tech, and are resourceful in ensuring on-time and on-scope delivery
- JavaScript, Node.js and a statically-typed language (eg Go, Typescript): commercial or significant project experience required, able to progress technical independently at pace
- Version control (Git) and command line: working ability and knowledge of fundamentals required
- Cloud software engineering (eg GCP/AWS): working ability and knowledge of fundamentals required
- Docker & kubernetes: working ability and knowledge of fundamentals required
- SQL or other structured query language: working ability and knowledge of fundamentals required
- Problem‑solving mindset and willingness to tackle unfamiliar domains
- Clear written and verbal communication, with a collaborative and open approach
- Strong sense of personal accountability and attention to detail
Desirable
- Passion for transportation or sustainable technologies
- Deeper experience with parts of our stack, eg Go, Typescript, react
- Terraform or other Infrastructure‑as‑Code tooling
- Exposure to Kafka, event‑driven architectures, or message queues
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or other secrets management tooling
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience in a start-up or scale-up environment
What the job involves
- Reporting to: Andy Jackson, Engineering Manager
- You’ll join our 6-person ‘sensors and signals’ team, who are responsible for developing and managing our AI-powered traffic sensors. This includes the web applications needed to configure and manage smart IoT sensors at scale. You will play a crucial role in producing and managing the trillions of data points per year which flow from our smart traffic sensors to government clients
- As a full-stack engineer you will work on varied projects, quickly making an impact for customers and helping to make roads around the world safer and greener. You'll benefit from pair programming and regular touch points with colleagues, but will have significant autonomy and drive your own impact in our stack
- Your time will be spent roughly as follows:
- 60% - Proactive technical work (e.g. product development, reliability enhancements, DevX enhancements)
- 30% - Reactive technical work (e.g. incident response, support requests, code review)
- 10% - Planning and administration
Application process
- 30 minute screening interview
- 1 hour pair programming interview where you will work together with a VivaCity engineer
- 2 hour final round interview, split into a 45 minute technical experience interview, 45 minute soft skills interview, and 30 minute director interview
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Technological advancements have already changed the way we communicate, entertain ourselves and move around. VivaCity is here to bring the same advancements to the cities we live in, by implementing transport-focused smart cities.
The company uses cameras with on-board machine learning to quantify the movement of pedestrians, vehicles and cyclists, then builds predictive AI systems from this data. By delivering this live transport usage data 24/7, local authorities are empowered to recognise behaviour patterns - enabling them to improve safety.
VivaCity's technology has already been adopted by numerous UK councils and institutions, including Transport For London, Oxfordshire and Sunderland City Councils, and the University of Bristol. Funds raised by the company have been used to widen its product portfolio, as well as support expansion into North America.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2023
$9.5m
LATE VC
Sep 2022
$0.5m
GRANT
Total funding: $21.6m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday
- Flexible working hours and locations
- Private pension with 3% employer contribution
- Health Assured employee assistance programme
- Annual company away trip
- Optional healthcare plan
- Annual personal training budget
- Home office set up budget
- Cycle to work scheme
- Fully stocked office kitchen
- Monthly social activity budget
Company values
- Be human: We’re welcoming, approachable and friendly, working in a mutually supportive way, where our default question is ‘how can I help?’ We show compassion and kindness to ourselves and others, building strong relationships and celebrating successes
- Challenge accepted: Pushing the boundaries and tackling challenging problems is at the heart of the company. We know that taking risks means that sometimes things fail, and that’s ok. But driven by curiosity, ingenuity, persistence and expertise, we step into the unknown to find a solution. When someone says ‘That’s impossible’, we say ‘Challenge Accepted!’
- Open by default: We value transparency and traceability and construct our processes around this. We share information freely and openly to help everyone understand the rationale behind decisions and why they are in the best interests of our people and company
- Speak your Mind: It’s better to have ten ideas that don’t pass muster – and one that does – than not share any for fear of getting it wrong. We can put ourselves out there and voice our ideas. We always give and receive feedback constructively, helping the team work better together, and recognise achievements and success
- Autonomy: Innovation is, by nature, bottom-up. It’s not for the people in charge to come up with all the ideas. It’s only by asking everyone to contribute and listening to all perspectives, that can we progress as a company and develop the best solutions. We empower people to take responsibility, be creative, experiment and push the boundaries
- Community First: Community first means welcoming everyone, regardless of background, race, gender, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic. We also always put community first when developing our solutions – gathering only anonymous insights, eliminating personal data and innovating to be a force for good in the world
Company HQ
London, UK
Leadership
Mark Nicholson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Natural Sciences, where they met the other two co-founders whilst leading the solar car racing team. Previously an Associate Consultant at OC&C Strategy Consultants.
Yang Lu
(Co-Founder & Board Advisor)Former CTO of the company. Completed an Engineering degree at Cambridge where they were the Technical Director on the same solar car project. Spent a year as a Consultant at TTP.
Peter Mildon
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied Engineering at Cambridge, was the Chief Engineer on a solar car project. Spent 2 years as a Senior Engineer at Frazer-Nash consultancy.
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