Software Engineer

Today, millions of employees looking for career growth are stuck between bad HR software and impenetrable spreadsheets. There are no career development products that employees and managers really want to use.

That's not good enough. Managers should have the power to support their teams, and anyone should have the opportunity to be the best version of themselves and create careers that they love.

We're building the solution to that. Progression brings clarity to employees around their career growth, and simplicity and scalability to teams as they grow and look to promote and reward employees for their hard work. That's just the start. Our mission is to h elp everyone build a career that they love.

About the role:

As one of our first engineering hires you'll have the ability to move fast and build core product. You'll be working closely with experienced engineers and product folk in a small, collaborative team, so you can expect an unparalleled opportunity to learn across the entire stack.

We have an amazing set of investors, a huge vision and a lot of product to build, so expect masses of autonomy, thinking from first principles and tons of face-time with us as we work together on building an amazing business.

You'll be one of first engineers at Progression. Not only do we need you to help with the volume or work but we also need someone to apply themselves to helping us scale what we do: our product, our maintainability and our processes. You'll have a huge role in deciding how we structure the code, the technology we use and will have a big impact on the quality of work we ship.

Experience & Skills:

• 2+ years of professional experience writing and maintaining production-level applications with React or Ruby on Rails
• A passion for clean, maintainable, secure, tested code.
• Self-directed learning with immediate application to day-to-day work.
• An understanding of security when building products for the web.
• Working closely with senior engineers to unblock technical uncertainties.
• Strong communication and organisational skills - you'll be able to work effectively in teams or work autonomously as needed
• Working closely with designers, researchers and stakeholders

Bonus points for:

• Experience using React or Vue within Rails.
  
• An entrepreneurial streak - Github open source contributions, a side project you're proud of or a past success or failure which tells your story.

You'll have a great time if you want:

• To get in on the very ground floor of a new tech company
• An unparalleled opportunity to learn across the entire stack
• To write a lot of code, move fast and also have influence over the product and company culture
• To learn unfamiliar things quickly so you can unblock yourself
• To work on the most business critical projects, whatever they are

We may not be the right fit if you'd like to:

• Work in a large product team with lots of other engineers
• Specialise in one aspect of engineering (e.g API design)
• Specialise in one language or framework (e.g. Rails or React)
• Work in an office 5 days per week
  

• A generous share options package
• 25 days holiday allowance, which we will expect you to use
• Remote flexibility - flexible hours, work from anywhere
• Remote benefits (e.g. a stipend towards coffee and a good chair - you tell us what you want!)
• Regular in-person working sessions and kick-offs whenever we need, once we're able to
• Off-sites and hangouts somewhere nice
• £1000/year for training, coaching or personal/professional support, and very regular career growth conversations (it's kind of what we do...)

• Phone screen
• Technical interview with Neil (no algorithm quizzes or whiteboards, we'll explore your past projects and go through some coding case studies)
• Culture / Vision interview with Jonny
• Technical review , we'll walk through some code you've written to talk about the tradeoffs and decisions you had to make.