Senior Full Stack Engineer, Beam
£85-125k
+ EMI-qualifying share options
More information about location
Supporting disadvantaged people into jobs & homes
Open for applications
Supporting disadvantaged people into jobs & homes
101-200 employees
Open for applications
£85-125k
+ EMI-qualifying share options
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
To transform how the world supports those left behind, through the power of people and technology.
Role
Who you are
- You're an experienced developer, passionate about social impact, looking to create the biggest positive impact of your career in an awesome team environment
- You’re already a great Ruby developer, well versed in engineering best practices, including version control, test-driven development and continuous integration
- You have demonstrable experience in a high-growth tech startup or leading global tech company
- You write clean, performant and well-documented code
- You have experience building web products and services, and have an awareness of technologies across the stack
- You care about building reliable, well-tested systems
- You have a product mindset: you care about customer outcomes and you want to make data-informed decisions
- You have an entrepreneurial, get-things-done attitude
- You'll contribute to fostering a culture of psychological safety, inclusivity, collaboration and continuous improvement within the team through participation in retrospectives and feedback
- You're passionate about social mobility
What the job involves
- Led by Julian, you’ll be joining a lean team of exceptional engineers, which is set to double in size in 2024, and will shape and build the future of our tools and products
- You'll spend time pair programming, brainstorming hard problems, prototyping different ideas, throwing them away, and prototyping them again
- You wouldn't be just churning through tickets in a backlog - you'd be helping to design entirely new products, figuring out what exactly we're even building and why
- You'd spend your time developing and improving existing projects, for example:
- Building internal tools - for our team to help as many people as efficiently as possible
- Rapid Prototyping - You'll be adding features features to Beam for Companies to bring in donations for the crowdfunding platform
- Tooling efficiency - Using the latest generative AI tooling to empower our caseworkers to focus on what matters, helping those in need
- Optimising our products - so that they are snappy and performant for all of our users
- Feature Development - Building out new features for our partners in government, our supporters and our wonderful members
- Future Technology - Building and helping to shape the future of our new AI-driven product, Magic Notes, used by care workers in local councils to save hours of admin per week
- Our priority is to ship maintainable, reliable systems. To date, we've done that using:
- Ruby on Rails on the back-end
- Vue JS, Alpine JS, Stimulus, Tailwind CSS and ERB for front-end
- Heroku, AWS for hosting and Azure & OpenAI for AI services
- PostgreSQL for databases
- RSpec, Sidekiq, GoodJob, Stripe, Twilio, Slack, Mailchimp
Application process
- All our interviews are currently conducted over Google Meet
- It usually takes us a week to get back to you after each round
- Due to a high number of applications, we are unfortunately unable to offer feedback before Round 2. Feedback for subsequent rounds is provided if requested
- We take hiring seriously. We have a four-stage interview process, giving you plenty of time to learn about Beam while we get to know you
- 30 mins with our Talent team
- 60 mins with Julian
- 30 mins each with Product & Engineering Team
- Final 30 min meeting with Alex, our Founder & CEO
Salary benchmarks
Otta's take
Xav Kearney
CTO of Otta
Beam is an ambitious social impact business focused on creating equality of opportunity at scale. They're starting by crowdfunding brighter futures for homeless people in London, creating a powerful new model to help disadvantaged people get into stable work.
Beam is funded by established names in the UK tech scene, the world's top impact funds and the Mayor of London. Founder and CEO, Alex Stephany, brings a track record from his previous startup backed by Index Ventures and the rest of Beam's senior team have their own wealth of experience.
Beam has also won multiple awards, including a Queen's Award - one of the UK's most prestigious business award - and has twice been voted as one of the top 100 places to work in the UK.
Insights
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
65% female employees
61% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Meaningful work
"I love working for Beam because you can be certain that everything you do day-to-day will have a visible and lasting impact on a homeless person."
Company benefits
- Share options - Be a Beam owner with EMI-qualifying share options
- Annual retreat - Bond with teammates on a yearly team retreat
- Team talks - Network with big name tech entrepreneurs
- Meditation app - Free subscription to Calm meditation app
- Cyclescheme - Get a discounted bike and accessories
- Generous Holiday - 28 days per year + bank holidays
- Hybrid working - Work at our beautiful Shoreditch office or at home
- 1:1 workplace coaching through More Happi
- 1:1 financial wellbeing through Bippit
- Discounted tech products with Techscheme
- On-demand therapy, coaching, classes & content - powered by Oliva
Company values
- ⚡️ We make an impact - we change lives and fix social problems by setting and achieving ambitious targets
- 🗯 We're open & transparent - we communicate openly and transparently with each other and the world
- 🌱 We get better together - we support each other to improve and actively work on personal growth - with no ego
- 🔦 We're beams of energy and focus - we bring energy and strive for laser focus in our work
Company HQ
London, UK
Founders
Alex Stephany
(CEO)Previously CEO of JustPark, a leading online marketplace for parking with over 4m customers backed by Index Ventures. Expert on the sharing economy and author of The Business of Sharing (Macmillan).
Seb Barker
(COO)Helped pioneer personalised healthcare for the NHS. Worked on the world's first social impact bond in homelessness.
People progressing
Bluinse is a rising star in ops, focused on Beam Lettings: a pioneering service supporting homeless people into stable homes. Outside of Beam, Bluinse is a bit of a dance star with over 100k subs.
Ryan (no relation to Bluinse :) ) is another rising star in ops, supporting homeless people into stable jobs. Ryan loves footie and guitar. He also organises 'Active Wellbeaming' - our paid for team PT.
Diversity & Inclusion at Beam
Amira & Kat (Chairs of DEI at Beam)
- We work hard to build teams that are diverse in every way.
- We’re committed to creating inclusive hiring processes which allow people with diverse backgrounds to showcase their talents
- We particular encourage applications from those who are underrepresented in startups: those from black and underrepresented ethnic groups and people with lived experience of homelessness/social disadvantage
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