Trusted Housesitters Group
TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. Our platform connects a thriving global community of pet lovers through a unique trust-based membership model. We're on a mission to create a world where pet owners can travel with peace of mind, knowing their pets are in safe hands, while sitters enjoy unique homestays around the world. Our vision is simple: to become the world's most loved travel solution for pet people - and we're making it a reality. With almost 250,000 members worldwide with the ambition of scaling to 1 Million, 97% say we have improved their lives, and our growth is high as word-of-mouth fuels a fast-growing, passionate community. TrustedHousesitters was named one of Escape the City's top organisations to work for in 2023 and we were proud to be part of the 2024 cohort of Technation's Future Fifty, the UK's leading pre-IPO programme. In October 2024 we secured B Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to our people, the planet and pets across the world. At TrustedHousesitters, we embrace a collaborative, high-impact work environment where innovation, individual accountability, and ownership drive everything we do. We believe in empowering our people to see the real impact of their work. Every team member plays a role in crafting quality experiences for our members, and we continuously push ourselves to improve, iterate, and innovate always with the goal of strengthening our global community of pet lovers. Now is an exciting time to join TrustedHousesitters where innovation, advocacy and community-driven growth are at the heart of our success. If you're looking to make a real impact in a mission-led, fast-scaling tech business, this is the right place for you. About the Role As a Senior Frontend Engineer on our Growth team, your mission is to help build the engineer that drives our new member acquisition. Working closely with a team of other engineers and senior engineer leads, you will architect and build the platform and tools that give our marketing and content teams the speed and autonomy to test hypotheses, launch experiments, and scale our growth without engineering dependencies. This role is for an engineer with a focus for action. You understand that success is measured by solving business problems, not by lines of code. You thrive on iterating quickly to find what works, then pragmatically evolving the solution as needs change. Responsibilities Building a Self-Serve Marketing Platform: You'll drive a significant uplift in user acquisition by architecting and building features for a self-serve marketing platform (e.g., a headless CMS, dynamic page builder) so that marketing teams can launch campaigns, content updates, A/B testing, and user journey customization without engineering dependencies. Design System as a Product: You'll be a key contributor evolving our design system, treating it as an internal product, enabling developers and marketers to build high-quality, consistent UIs faster. Implement a Modern, Scalable Frontend: You'll implement new functionality and features within our Next.js and TypeScript stack, write high-quality, testable code, and collaborate with your team on best practices. Requirements You have 4+ years of experience building, shipping, and maintaining high-quality, complex web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js. You are a product-minded engineer who can abstract complex problems into elegant, reusable solutions and internal tools. You have experience setting the technical direction for projects, driving consensus, and providing guidance to your peers. You have experience building maintainable and testable codebases, and unit testing techniques. You are an excellent communicator who thrives in a cross-functional environment, capable of partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to achieve shared goals. Nice to Have Knowledge of some backend technologies. Experience working in a fast-paced, product-led growth environment. Benefits £65,000 - £80,000 a year Fully remote work Generous equity options Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership with related benefits X5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year Unlimited housesitting allowance, remote working from sits, and £500 per year towards travel costs £200 annually towards home office equipment Access to Spaces (co-working) locations globally Monthly working from home stipend Macbook Adoption support for rescue pets Quarterly all-expenses-paid team meet-ups and ongoing team events Resources for personal development Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering and giving programs Weekly virtual yoga sessions Brighton Bikeshare Recruitment Referral Bonus If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs). At the heart of our team are a mix of diverse backgrounds. We're committed to the equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process. Offers of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and professional suitability. Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic origins, religion or beliefs, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision-making process.
TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct-to-consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. Our platform connects a thriving global community of pet lovers through a unique trust-based membership model. We're on a mission to create a world where pet owners can travel with peace of mind, knowing their pets are in safe hands, while sitters enjoy unique homestays around the world. Our vision is simple: to become the world's most loved travel solution for pet people - and we're making it a reality. With almost 250,000 members worldwide with the ambition of scaling to 1 Million, 97% say we have improved their lives, and our growth is high as word-of-mouth fuels a fast-growing, passionate community. TrustedHousesitters was named one of Escape the City's top organisations to work for in 2023 and we were proud to be part of the 2024 cohort of Technation's Future Fifty, the UK's leading pre-IPO programme. In October 2024 we secured B Corp certification, reflecting our commitment to our people, the planet and pets across the world. At TrustedHousesitters, we embrace a collaborative, high-impact work environment where innovation, individual accountability, and ownership drive everything we do. We believe in empowering our people to see the real impact of their work. Every team member plays a role in crafting quality experiences for our members, and we continuously push ourselves to improve, iterate, and innovate always with the goal of strengthening our global community of pet lovers. Now is an exciting time to join TrustedHousesitters where innovation, advocacy and community-driven growth are at the heart of our success. If you're looking to make a real impact in a mission-led, fast-scaling tech business, this is the right place for you. About the Role As a Senior Frontend Engineer on our Growth team, your mission is to help build the engineer that drives our new member acquisition. Working closely with a team of other engineers and senior engineer leads, you will architect and build the platform and tools that give our marketing and content teams the speed and autonomy to test hypotheses, launch experiments, and scale our growth without engineering dependencies. This role is for an engineer with a focus for action. You understand that success is measured by solving business problems, not by lines of code. You thrive on iterating quickly to find what works, then pragmatically evolving the solution as needs change. Responsibilities Building a Self-Serve Marketing Platform: You'll drive a significant uplift in user acquisition by architecting and building features for a self-serve marketing platform (e.g., a headless CMS, dynamic page builder) so that marketing teams can launch campaigns, content updates, A/B testing, and user journey customization without engineering dependencies. Design System as a Product: You'll be a key contributor evolving our design system, treating it as an internal product, enabling developers and marketers to build high-quality, consistent UIs faster. Implement a Modern, Scalable Frontend: You'll implement new functionality and features within our Next.js and TypeScript stack, write high-quality, testable code, and collaborate with your team on best practices. Requirements You have 4+ years of experience building, shipping, and maintaining high-quality, complex web applications using TypeScript, React, and Next.js. You are a product-minded engineer who can abstract complex problems into elegant, reusable solutions and internal tools. You have experience setting the technical direction for projects, driving consensus, and providing guidance to your peers. You have experience building maintainable and testable codebases, and unit testing techniques. You are an excellent communicator who thrives in a cross-functional environment, capable of partnering effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders to achieve shared goals. Nice to Have Knowledge of some backend technologies. Experience working in a fast-paced, product-led growth environment. Benefits £65,000 - £80,000 a year Fully remote work Generous equity options Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership with related benefits X5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year Unlimited housesitting allowance, remote working from sits, and £500 per year towards travel costs £200 annually towards home office equipment Access to Spaces (co-working) locations globally Monthly working from home stipend Macbook Adoption support for rescue pets Quarterly all-expenses-paid team meet-ups and ongoing team events Resources for personal development Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering and giving programs Weekly virtual yoga sessions Brighton Bikeshare Recruitment Referral Bonus If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs). At the heart of our team are a mix of diverse backgrounds. We're committed to the equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process. Offers of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and professional suitability. Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic origins, religion or beliefs, age, disability, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision-making process.
Trusted Housesitters Group
TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct to consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. We're on a mission to make travel work better for pets, their people, and the global community of animal lovers. We aim to become the world's most loved travel solution for pet people, connecting pet owners and sitters to keep pets happy at home while their humans explore the world. We've grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. We've already grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. At the moment, a sit starts every two minutes somewhere on the planet. We want that to be every single minute and we know the only way we'll get there is with the right people in the right roles. More About The Role We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to join the Scooby Doo squad at TrustedHousesitters. In this role, you will primarily help evolve and scale our Python/Django backend services, APIs and data models, while also contributing to front end work using React when needed. Our team builds the core surfaces and systems that power a global community of pet owners and sitters. You'll work across a modern, service oriented architecture, collaborating with Product, Design, and other engineering squads to deliver reliable, secure, and high impact features. This role is ideal for an engineer who loves backend engineering, system design, and scalability, but who can still contribute confidently across the stack when required. You'll thrive in an environment where: We prioritise quality and reliability We experiment, iterate, and learn quickly We communicate openly and work collaboratively We take ownership over the full lifecycle of the features we ship What you'll be doing On our Backend Designing, building, and maintaining backend services in Python/Django and Django REST Framework. Evolving our API layer and backend domain models to support new product features. Improving scalability, performance, caching, and reliability across core systems. Ensuring secure coding practices, proper authentication/authorisation flows, and data integrity. Driving high engineering standards in testing, observability, architecture, and documentation. On our Frontend Contributing to React front end surfaces and supporting full stack features where needed. Implementing UI components that integrate with backend APIs you build. Collaborating with design to ensure accessibility, usability, and performance. Helping shape front end architecture for reliability and consistency. Collaboration & Delivery Working closely with Product and Design to refine problems into clear technical plans. Leading spikes, technical discovery, and cross team initiatives. Supporting peers through pairing, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. Advocating for engineering excellence, platform improvements, and sustainable delivery. What you'll bring 4+ years of full stack or backend engineering experience in a product focused environment. Deep expertise in Python, including production grade systems, testing, and optimisation. Solid experience with Django, Django REST Framework, or similar backend frameworks. Significant experience designing and evolving REST APIs and integrating with external services. Confident using AI powered engineering tools (Copilot, code review assistants, documentation helpers) to improve delivery, share knowledge, and maintain a high bar of engineering excellence. Proficiency with React (or equivalent modern framework) for building maintainable UI components. Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, caching, and performance optimisation. Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability tools (GitHub Actions, Datadog, Sentry). Ability to break down ambiguous problems and lead technical decisions. Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with cross functional stakeholders. Nice to have Experience with Next.js, SSR/SSG, and front end performance optimisation. AWS. Experience with feature flags, rollout strategies, and experimentation frameworks. Familiarity with improving platform level concerns: security, permissions, architecture patterns. Experience integrating AI/ML APIs (e.g., GPT) or building automation tooling. £65,000 - £80,000 a year. Benefits Fully remote work Generous equity options Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership - including airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you 5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year Unlimited housesitting allowance; can work remotely from their sits, and eligible to £500 per year towards travel costs £200 annually towards home office equipment Access to Spaces (co working) Locations across the globe Monthly working from home stipend MacBook Find a rescue pet to join your family and we'll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home. Quarterly all expenses paid meet up and team events (remote or in person) throughout the year Coverage for personal development resources, and regular time set aside for personal development Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve Weekly virtual yoga sessions Brighton Bikeshare Recruitment Referral Bonus If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc). Our team is committed to an equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process and selection. Offers of employment into TrustedHousesitters are based solely on individual merit, qualifications, and professional suitability. Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision making process.
TrustedHousesitters is a fast growing, direct to consumer marketplace that is redefining pet care and travel. We're on a mission to make travel work better for pets, their people, and the global community of animal lovers. We aim to become the world's most loved travel solution for pet people, connecting pet owners and sitters to keep pets happy at home while their humans explore the world. We've grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. We've already grown into a global community with members in over 140 countries, a product people genuinely love, and a team of more than 100 brilliant humans powering it all. At the moment, a sit starts every two minutes somewhere on the planet. We want that to be every single minute and we know the only way we'll get there is with the right people in the right roles. More About The Role We are looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer with a strong backend focus to join the Scooby Doo squad at TrustedHousesitters. In this role, you will primarily help evolve and scale our Python/Django backend services, APIs and data models, while also contributing to front end work using React when needed. Our team builds the core surfaces and systems that power a global community of pet owners and sitters. You'll work across a modern, service oriented architecture, collaborating with Product, Design, and other engineering squads to deliver reliable, secure, and high impact features. This role is ideal for an engineer who loves backend engineering, system design, and scalability, but who can still contribute confidently across the stack when required. You'll thrive in an environment where: We prioritise quality and reliability We experiment, iterate, and learn quickly We communicate openly and work collaboratively We take ownership over the full lifecycle of the features we ship What you'll be doing On our Backend Designing, building, and maintaining backend services in Python/Django and Django REST Framework. Evolving our API layer and backend domain models to support new product features. Improving scalability, performance, caching, and reliability across core systems. Ensuring secure coding practices, proper authentication/authorisation flows, and data integrity. Driving high engineering standards in testing, observability, architecture, and documentation. On our Frontend Contributing to React front end surfaces and supporting full stack features where needed. Implementing UI components that integrate with backend APIs you build. Collaborating with design to ensure accessibility, usability, and performance. Helping shape front end architecture for reliability and consistency. Collaboration & Delivery Working closely with Product and Design to refine problems into clear technical plans. Leading spikes, technical discovery, and cross team initiatives. Supporting peers through pairing, code reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. Advocating for engineering excellence, platform improvements, and sustainable delivery. What you'll bring 4+ years of full stack or backend engineering experience in a product focused environment. Deep expertise in Python, including production grade systems, testing, and optimisation. Solid experience with Django, Django REST Framework, or similar backend frameworks. Significant experience designing and evolving REST APIs and integrating with external services. Confident using AI powered engineering tools (Copilot, code review assistants, documentation helpers) to improve delivery, share knowledge, and maintain a high bar of engineering excellence. Proficiency with React (or equivalent modern framework) for building maintainable UI components. Strong understanding of distributed systems, scalability, caching, and performance optimisation. Experience with testing, CI/CD, and observability tools (GitHub Actions, Datadog, Sentry). Ability to break down ambiguous problems and lead technical decisions. Excellent communication skills and comfort collaborating with cross functional stakeholders. Nice to have Experience with Next.js, SSR/SSG, and front end performance optimisation. AWS. Experience with feature flags, rollout strategies, and experimentation frameworks. Familiarity with improving platform level concerns: security, permissions, architecture patterns. Experience integrating AI/ML APIs (e.g., GPT) or building automation tooling. £65,000 - £80,000 a year. Benefits Fully remote work Generous equity options Discretionary 10% annual bonus scheme 25 days holiday annually plus bank holidays and Christmas to New Year closure Pension scheme: 5% from you as an employee and 3% from TrustedHousesitters Premium TrustedHousesitters pet owner and sitter membership - including airport lounge passes, sit cancellation insurance, and home and contents insurance for sits for you 5 premium memberships for your friends and family each year Unlimited housesitting allowance; can work remotely from their sits, and eligible to £500 per year towards travel costs £200 annually towards home office equipment Access to Spaces (co working) Locations across the globe Monthly working from home stipend MacBook Find a rescue pet to join your family and we'll cover the adoption fees, as well as paternity to help any pet settle into their new home. Quarterly all expenses paid meet up and team events (remote or in person) throughout the year Coverage for personal development resources, and regular time set aside for personal development Bupa Health Insurance and Dental Insurance plan SimplyHealth Healthcare Cash plan Trusted Giving scheme - employee volunteering via Onhand and employee giving via Tyve Weekly virtual yoga sessions Brighton Bikeshare Recruitment Referral Bonus If you're ready to join us on our mission to become the most loved pet travel solution, we'd love to hear from you! In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (e.g., she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc). Our team is committed to an equal opportunities policy throughout the interview process and selection. Offers of employment into TrustedHousesitters are based solely on individual merit, qualifications, and professional suitability. Gender identity, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, or any other protected characteristics do not enter into our decision making process.