Remote Staff Software Engineer Job at birdie
Job Description
🐦 About Birdie
Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports millions of care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. Birdie is proud to be recognised as a B-corp.
Launched in 2017, Birdie is a team of socially motivated care, health, product and tech entrepreneurs. As of June 2022 we closed our series B funding with £25m invested by Index Ventures, Sofina & Omers. In 2023 we were named 6th in Deloitte fast 50 celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship in Tech.
🚀 Your mission at Birdie
As a Staff Engineer you will be responsible for the engineering delivery of product features, working with your fellow product managers, engineering managers, designers and engineers. It will be your responsibility to ensure that we are constantly delivering high-quality features for our customers and partners while maintaining a low technical debt.
You must be able to inspire and lead in the broader product & engineering team with a deep passion and hunger to solve the problems our customers and the industry is faced with.
🦸♀️ How you will contribute:
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You will own and contribute to the technical refinement, delivery and iteration of product features, collaborating with cross-functional teams including product, design and operations.
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Write unit and integration tests along with any code change you will push;
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Write code for both backend and frontend;
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Influence & change the overall system architecture to support new features, with support from other engineering leaders.
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Deploy & analyse the performance of your code in production and re-architect for bottlenecks, using automated monitoring tools where appropriate;
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Instil a learning environment for your team and act as a mentor for engineers and up and coming leaders;
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Contribute to improving and implementing processes and values with your team that support building high quality software at the right pace;
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Monitor KPIs, OKRs to assess technological performance and team effectiveness;
🤩 What we love to see
Whilst we don’t require nor expect expert level knowledge in our entire stack (naturally)😅, we find candidates who have expertise in some of the following will have the most success in our hiring process.
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Node based web frameworks (Express, NestJS etc…)
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SPA frameworks (ideally React)
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Strongly typed languages (ideally Typescript)
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Distributed systems (microservices mainly but we also use microfrontends).
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Automated testing (Jest, Cypress etc…)
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Relational databases (ideally Postgres)
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Event driven architectures (Kafka)
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Observability tooling (Datadog, Sentry, Open Telemetry etc…)
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Container based DevOps (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS etc…)
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Small iterative delivery cycles
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Autonomous cross disciplinary software development teams.
These are our ideal requirements, but we know some people are less likely to apply for the role unless they are 100% qualified. We promote a diverse, inclusive and empowering culture at Birdie, so please apply if you feel you meet enough of these competencies.
For a more detailed outlining of our stack please visit here
🙌 What are the benefits?
People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture (employer net promotion score of 67) with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer exceptional benefits and invest massively in our team’s happiness, wellbeing and growth:
✨ Compensation
Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £87,000 per annum in the UK. We also grant generous stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period. We adjust salaries based on the cost of living index for employees based outside of the UK.
🏝 Flexible
We are a remote team with employees based all over Europe. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers. If you want to come to the offices in London or Berlin, you’re most welcome of course!
🌱 L&D budget
Growth is key. You’ll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.
🏡 Work From Home budget
Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you’ll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.
🌴 Base holiday
33 days base holiday (25 days + 8 bank holidays).
🎄 Christmas leave
Birdie closes between Christmas and New Year so you can have some down time with your loved ones. This is in addition to your base holiday!
🎂 Birthday leave
An extra day off for your birthday (you can take this whenever you want during the year).
🫶🏻 Birdie giving days
Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about social impact this means you can take 2 paid days each year for volunteering to a cause you’re passionate about.
🌍 Sabbaticals
We recognise that sometimes a longer break is desired, that’s why as of 2024 we have introduced a sabbatical policy. When you have been with us for 4 years you can take up to 3 months off.
👩⚕️ Private health insurance
Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs.
☀️ Gym and wellbeing discounts
Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.
🚲 Cycle to work scheme
Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months.
👼🏽 Parental Leave
Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.
🐣 Fertility Leave
Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges which may arise during fertility treatments, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.
👵🏻 Employer pension contribution
Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies).
⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals
We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats.
🤗 Exceptional culture
We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.
❓Why Birdie?
Join Birdie and seize this unique opportunity to shape the future of a transformative tech startup, to create positive social change, and develop yourself very fast in a flexible, close-knit & transparent organisation.
We have a grand vision to transform how society deals with ageing,we dream big and speed is of the essence.
We’re all entrepreneurs at Birdie.
We’re highly collaborative and iterative. Everything we do is transparent to anyone, be it objectives and key results, compensation packages and equity or strategic conversations.
Growing with trust is key. Everyone sets their own development plan and gets support to learn fast, from training to books or coaches. We live by radical candour: we give honest feedback and care deeply & personally about each other.
Join us now to improve the lives of millions!
⚖️ Equal Opportunities Statement
We are an equal opportunity employer and we strive to reduce unconscious bias throughout our hiring process. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.
We endeavour to embrace diversity, and promote an inclusive environment for all Birdies, and actively work towards this with our Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.