Full Stack Engineer
ZeroLight, United Kingdom
Job Description
What do we do at ZeroLight?
ZeroLight is a visualisation platform for brands that want to build stunning digital customer experiences that captivate and convert. Whether it’s creating world-beating product configurators, producing photoreal CGI content, or accessing enterprise-standard cloud-streaming, ZeroLight makes the process simpler, faster and more efficient. You can find out more information about our company here.
What is it like to work at ZeroLight?
Our studio base is at Live Works, an award-winning building in the heart of Newcastle’s Quayside. We have lots of great perks within the studio including a high spec coffee machine, hot amp; soft drinks, beer fridge, fruit delivery, well stocked chocolate and snack drawers with table tennis, pool and great views in our employee area - the terrace.
We believe that a mix of studio and home working is the best fit for ZeroLight, allowing us to be both collaborative and have the focus needed to get things done.
This hybrid working approach allows employees to choose whether to work from their home office or in the studio for their everyday work. There are certain meetings, workshops and groups that your Line Manager will ask you attend each week and you’ll decide yourself where you work best for focussed time. You can read more about hybrid working here: https://zerolight.com/blog/hybrid-working
We would also consider candidates looking to work remotely with regular visits to the studio.
ZeroLight lives by four core values - Quality, Innovation, Focus amp; Collaboration. To ensure that these values are kept at the forefront of everything we do, we hold quarterly collaboration events for all UK staff, who spend 2-3 days in the studio attending team workshops, skills development sessions, company wide updates and enjoying social time together. You can read more about the ethos of our collaboration events here: https://zerolight.com/blog/collaboration-events
To read more about our unique company culture, please take a look at our Life at ZeroLight Blog: https://zerolight.com/blog
This role
As Full Stack Engineer you would join our Platform team. This is a small team of highly skilled, motivated and passionate professionals. You’d report into our Technical Director, whilst also working closely with the Product Development Team, with the shared goal to create and drive forward development on our suite of products designed to enhance the customer experience for our automotive customers. Your key responsibilities will include developing, designing, and managing these innovative applications.
Requirements
Your responsibilities
- Developing, deploying and maintaining modern cross-platform libraries and production level applications.
- Lay the groundwork for our self-serve platform
- Working on the front end and back end architecture for our SpotLight product amp; self serve portal site.
What a typical week looks like
- Daily team stand ups to discuss relevant topics and problem solving
- Independent coding
- Regular cross-team meetings on monitoring live services
- Weekly one to ones with your line manager
- Refinement meetings
- Retrospectives at the end of each cycle
- Peer code reviews, ensuring quality across all platforms
What you’ll need
- 5+ years experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, React amp; NodeJS
- Self Starter with the ability to work independently
- Experience working with agile software development, defining user-stories and assessing risk.
- Knowledge of using sophisticated source control and continuous integration tools and pipelines.
Benefits
Additional benefits
- Onboarding
We have a comprehensive onboarding process at ZeroLight and use our integrated HR system Hibob to get our new starters introduced to the company. Your onboarding will include a full induction schedule for your first week, meetings with key employees and the opportunity to discuss your initial goals with your Line Manager. - ZLTalent
We operate a quarterly business cycle at ZeroLight and our review process runs alongside this to ensure that all employees have a consistent set of goals to work towards, that match the company’s overall aims, and the opportunity to discuss their progress with their Line Manager either in quarterly touchpoints or during career conversations. - ZLWell
Our comprehensive wellbeing policy ZLWell has won several awards over the past few years and gives employees the opportunity to take up personal counselling sessions. - Coaching amp; Mentoring
We offer career coaching to all employees from the Talent Team which sees staff able to access