Lead JavaScript Developer (mid/senior)

  • Bombinate
  • 17/03/2021
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Bombinate is on a mission to build the leading platform connecting quality craftsmanship & lifestyle brands to modern luxury consumers.

The company has attracted over 200 brands from 12 countries, growing our customer base and revenue nearly tenfold every quarter. We are backed by some of the leading European luxury & tech investors and are poised to solidify our awareness in the UK and expand across Europe.

Bombinate began with a simple idea - the discovery of quality craftsmanship brands - and grew to become a fully fledged family of brand founders, entrepreneurs, and craftsmen. Our intent with Bombinate is to unite different perspectives of quality into a single story; we won't rest until we've unearthed the very best craftsmanship brands out there.

About the role:

This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's most exciting and popular new platforms as it starts to expand. Only a year and a half into launching the platform online, Bombinate has attracted a loyal following of men & women who care deeply about quality. What is more, the brand ecosystem is recognising the role Bombinate is playing in spearheading the movement towards ethical manufacture, conscious consumption and great design.

The opportunity has the potential to scale rapidly, building our platform for customers and brands. This role is for you if you want to e xcel within a multidisciplinary digital team & s olve challenging engineering problems.

A full review of the current engineering practices within the business. Work with the CTO to build out remote engineering teams which will be responsible for the future growth of the business. Present ideas on how to increase financial and marketing efficiency, improve performance across the stack, increase business process automation.

Responsibilities:

  • Active participation in technical architectural design
  • Providing informed technical insights for delivering complex projects
  • Improve and uphold code quality through code reviews and pair programming
  • Support business growth
About you: You should already have +2 years commercial experience of the following:
  • Agile
  • TDD
  • IaC
  • CI/CD
  • Proven track record making architectural design decisions.

Prerequisites Skills

  • Node.js
  • React (other frontend frameworks considered)
  • Typescript (or Flow)
  • Unit & integration testing
  • REST APIs
  • Git

Experience of one or more of the following

  • Next.js
  • AWS
  • PostgreSQL (or other relational DB)
  • TypeORM
  • Redis
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Bombinate offers a number of team-wide benefits and perks but if there's something that's important to you that's not on this list, let us know.

  • An opportunity to champion craftsmanship & great design. And to shape the way we connect craftsmanship brands to those who care about quality.
  • Highly competitive salary.
  • 25 days holiday allowance increase by 1 day with each year of service.
  • Generous Bombinate credit allowance to help you bring your wardrobe to life.
  • Regular team socials.
  • Drinks on a Friday afternoon to celebrate the week.
  • Coaching/mentoring to help you with your development.
  • Conference, learning and training budget.
  • Discussion on the phone (or video call) with the Sunil (CTO). We will run through your skills, experiences and interests and how they overlap with Bombinates line of business, technical stack and upcoming roadmap.
  • We will send a small coding task for you to complete.
  • Video call with Sunil & Gleb (Lead Developer) to discuss the result of your coding task submission.
  • In-person meeting with Elliott (Founder), Gleb (Lead Dev) & Sunil (CTO).
Node.js, React, Typescript, TestingReact, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Typescript, CircleCI, AWS, Cypress, Git, Postman, REST