Mid-level Software Engineer (Frontend, Backend or Fullstack)
Little Journey, United Kingdom
Job Description
Description
This role works closely with product, design and testing to deliver effective front end and (if you are able and enjoy) backend technology for our mobile application and platform. Our app helps children get back to playtime quicker after hospital visits.
This role is invaluable in accomplishing Little Journey’s vision of supporting all children to better health through personalised care.
The role
Our software engineers develop engaging applications that make children’s, parents and clinicians lives better. Our products therefore need to be fun, safe and enable personalised care. You will work on a variety of projects, for both mobile as platform applications. Our clients and partners range from hospitals to large pharmaceutical companies and leading enterprises like LEGO.
You will write product (mostly front end) or system code; Participate in product, design and QA meetings to ensure smooth processes; Collaborate with other developers and review each other's work; Improve our code based on user feedback and suggest better ways whenever possible.
To help more children, we need to implement our technology into as many hospitals as possible, support most healthcare procedures and reach our mission of supporting 1 million children in the process. In order to do this, our users need to love our app from the first moment they use it.
Your work ethic is defined by extreme ownership. You take responsibility for your results and work collaboratively with our team to inspire each other and learn to always remain at the forefront of innovation
The role reports into one of our Lead Developers.
Measuring success
Ongoing metric: You are well integrated into our squad structure, and consistently define how our architecture will be delivered and get this done in the most efficient way possible
6 months: You have been a key contributor to high quality code for some of our business-critical projects, delivered on budget and time
12 months: you have established a reputation for delivering excellent results and can push yourself to take on complex projects in the company
Development opportunities:
If you do an excellent job, and our key projects exceed expectations, there are great opportunities for you to gain the complexity of skillset that is the kick start to your senior engineering career. We work on various first-ever projects, valued at millions of pounds of revenue, it is a big opportunity to learn new skills.
Requirements
Skills needed
Non-negotiable:
- Excellent command of frontend tech: React and TypeScript or these backend technologies: C#; .NET (5 and up)
- Good command of a third language, so you can also pick up some additional frontend or backend work, depending on you strength
- You can effortlessly balance technical quality with pragmatic delivery
Desirable, but we can support:
- Good understanding of containerisation, having worked with Docker for example
- You can challenge colleagues on how deliverables fit into the bigger picture and can be improved
- You can propose ways of designing sub sections of our overall architecture
Behaviours and values needed
- Extreme ownership you love taking responsibility, share successes with the team and learn from mistakes
- Continuous learning growth mindset and comfortable asking for feedback / help
- Addresses the most difficult problems head on with urgency
- Good at managing expectations / workload you deliver what you promise
Our Tech stack
React; Typescript; C#; .NET 5 (and above); Docker; MongoDB; Elasticsearch; Terraform; GitLab; Jira; Miro; Notion we evolve over time, and you will influence our stack
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave pro-rata (plus public holidays)
- 6% pension match
- 500 annual training budget
- 200 home working budget
- 50 wellness budget
- Enhanced parental amp; family leave policies
- UK remote options, or hybrid work in our Leeds office
- Flexible working within core hours
- Friendly and collaborative team who value and respect each other
Additional info
This role is either based in Leeds (office based or hybrid) or home based, with quarterly in person team meetings.
About Little Journey
Little Journey was founded in 2018 by Dr Chris Evans and Sophie Copley. As an anaesthetic doctor and father himself, Chris witnessed first-hand the distress experienced by children and families coming to hospital for surgery. Partnering with Sophie, an expert in human-centred product design, they created a prototype version of the L