Senior Backend Engineer, Percent
£77-88.5k
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API-first giving & purpose platform
Job no longer available
API-first giving & purpose platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£77-88.5k
+ Share options
21-100 employees
Company mission
To harness technology and power purpose for every organisation worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Experience developing secure, scalable, resilient systems
- A fundamental understanding of databases - we currently use Postgres
- Experience in monitoring systems, continuous integration and automated testing
- Strong knowledge of and enthusiasm for back-end architectures
- The keen motivation to contribute to a product and vision
- An excellent communicator with a strong drive to see large projects through to completion
- 4+ years of experience building APIs and working with databases
- In-depth knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript
- DevOps (AWS, CI/CD, ECS, Docker, Terraform)
- Being product focused
Desirable
- Working in a startup environment (we value your ability to deal with and adapt to fast-paced decision-making, change and the need to deliver at scale and speed)
- Domain-Driven Development
- Tea drinking 🫖
What the job involves
- In this role, you will be part of our Giving Team. This team implements the APIs and user experience to expand the donations platform for our partners
- You will be part of an autonomous, cross-functional product team able to make its own decisions based on the objectives set by the business
- You will report directly to the Engineering Manager
- In return, we'll give you a platform to exercise your creativity and innovate to your heart's content
- Help implement the APIs and user experience to expand the donations platform for our partners
- Be involved on a highly technical level, helping establish and build best practices in terms of technologies used
- Day to day you will be expected to write code and be involved in planning, product, and delivery
- After 3 months, success will look like:
- You will have got to know your team mates well and feel comfortable in your new surroundings
- You will understand the giving product and be starting to make suggestions about its evolution
- Have developed a deep understanding of the platform architecture and continue becoming a subject matter expert, suggesting plans for engineering improvements
- You will have found the free sock merch in the office
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Theo Margolius
COO of Otta
Following major catalysts such as Covid-19, the Climate Crisis & Ukraine, it is becoming more apparent that aligning brands with purpose is more important than ever. However, the process for businesses to build purpose, donations & doing good into their products is archaic, manual, and inefficient.
Percent’s API-first platform allows companies to quickly and easily build giving and purpose into what they do. Percent achieves this by building cutting-edge technology that takes away the complexities of giving to 8.6m nonprofits in over 185 countries.
Use-cases vary from allowing customers to give at the end of documentaries on their favourite streaming sites, supporting in-kind donations of software products, all the way powering giving on some of the world’s biggest social media platforms.
Percent’s mission is to power purpose in every company worldwide and to achieve this, Percent closed a large Series A with General Catalyst at the beginning of 2022. It has offices in the UK, US & Australia and is focused on hiring talent moving forwards.
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jan 2022
$39m
SERIES A
Jul 2021
$5m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $44m
Company benefits
- Unlimited mental health days
- Automatic enrolment into pension
- 25 days paid leave, plus bank holidays & Birthday leave
- £250 work from home allowance
- Weekly lunch and unlimited snacks (if in office)
- Percent Library: Any book on the company, read the book and provide a review and recommendation to get a new one
- Learning Budget £1,000
- Unlimited sick days
- A cycle scheme
- Volunteering days off
Company values
- 🌍 PURPOSE OVER PROFIT We consider our actions as individuals and a collective and make decisions to maximise the positive impact to people. This means we act ethically and not at the expense of people
- 🍋 LEMON TWIST Celebrate the ideas that come from thinking differently
- ❤️ CANDID & KIND Ideas meritocracy discovered by direct honesty, but with no rudeness or disrespect... life’s too short
- 😼 PLAYFUL We know how to work hard and we know how to play even harder. Percenauts are into so many different hobbies we could form our own version of the Olympics
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Founders
Henry Ludlam
(Founder)Founder of TeamFirst and S&C Productions LTD. Previous experience providing founder advice and mentorship through Wayra.
Diversity & Inclusion at Percent
Henry Ludlam (CEO)
- As the CEO of Percent, I am proud to share our mission of harnessing technology to power purpose in every organisation worldwide. A crucial aspect of our success is our unwavering commitment to cultivating a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment that enables our team to thrive
- We take pride in our diverse and growing team of 117+ members, representing 16+ nationalities across 5 continents 🌍! Our continued expansion provides us with opportunities to embrace and celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, essential to our success. We actively seek and welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status
- Our policies, such as parental leave are designed to help our people balance work and family life, allowing them to prosper in their careers 🪁
- To foster our team's continuous growth, we've allocated a budget for Learning & Development, enabling team members to attend conferences, up-skill, and expand their knowledge with company-sponsored resources 📚
- At Percent, we dream big about the positive impact we can create and work relentlessly to deliver donations to purpose-driven organisations globally. We understand the intensity of our mission and prioritise our team's well-being by encouraging mental health breaks without salary deductions ❤️
- To support diverse work preferences, we offer flexible work arrangements, including remote work and a dedicated office space for our London-based employees. Together, we foster a candid & kind workplace where all voices matter, fueling collective growth and global impact
- A team that well represents the world that we are trying support is a wiser, more knowledgable and stronger one. We’re excited for you to bring your experience, yourself & special [lemon twist](https://poweredbypercent.com/about/) to Percent to propel us forward in striving to create a better world for us all.
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