Senior Software Engineer, Gousto
Python
1+ day a week in office (Shepherds Bush, London)
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
Be an early applicant
Recipe boxes delivered to your door
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
1+ day a week in office (Shepherds Bush, London)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Gousto's mission is to make the food in our boxes more sustainable.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of designing and building backend systems using Python
- You have experience with using cloud AWS cloud services (GCP is also fine)
- Experience of designing and building REST APIs
- You are proficient in writing unit tests, integration tests and end-to-end tests. Experience with TDD would also be great
- You have worked with and made improvements to CI/CD tooling and responsibly running solutions in production
- You are familiar with Domain Driven Design and Event-Driven architecture
What the job involves
- Delivering scalable, distributed, cloud-based systems in a highly available manner
- Scaling our event-driven microservices architecture
- Caring for our platform
- Obsessing over quality & performance
- Software Engineering plays a crucial role in the overall user experience at Gousto
- Continuing to evolve our agile development process
- Our approach is customer-centric, data-driven, and outcome-focused
- Supporting and collaborating with engineers around you
- We use lean principles to work iteratively, experiment, and learn rapidly
Salary benchmarks
Our take
There is an accelerating consumer need to eat healthily, sustainably, and at value. Gousto aims to meet this need with its meal-kit delivery service, which offers pre-packaged ingredients and recipe instructions. It sets itself apart with more than 60 different recipes to choose from each week - a third of which are customisable.
In 2021, Gousto sold more than 90 million meals, amounting to three meals every second, a figure that is on the rise. It is part of The UK Plastics Pact, which aims for 100% reusable, recyclable and compostable plastic by 2025. As a member, Gousto has committed to eliminating problematic plastics, stimulating innovation and helping to build a stronger recycling system in the UK.
Gousto became a B Corp certified company for its sustainability efforts. Following huge recent investments, the now unicorn company is sure to continue its growth over the coming years as more consumers switch to convenient online grocery shopping.
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42% female employees
35% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Team energy
"The energy at Gousto is infectious! There's always a way to get involved in the things you're most passionate about. Everyone is so enthusiastic..."
Funding (last 2 of 13 rounds)
Feb 2023
$66.5m
LATE VC
Jan 2022
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $375.4m
Company benefits
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays), + a holiday day added each year (up to 30 days), + buy up to 5 days extra holiday
- 40% Gousto discount, 25% for friends and family, and first box free
- Private healthcare
- Gym and ClassPass membership
- Cycle to work scheme
- Referral scheme
- Company pension
- Quarterly team socials and mixed team events
- Gousto stash - hoodie, notepad, mug
- Free coffee, tea, fruit and ice cream
- Free beer, wine and soft drinks on Fridays
Company values
- Dream - We’ve got huge ambition and believe everything is possible - Curious, bold and resilient, we’ve got an insatiable appetite to learn and grow
- Deliver - We work at pace and focus on impact, taking ownership of the solution and raising the bar every step of the way
- Care - We obsess over our customers, doing the right thing for them and for the planet. We are one team, supporting and celebrating one another
Company HQ
Hammersmith, London, UK
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Leadership
Timo Boldt
(CEO)Spent 4 years in Finance at Rothschild and a hedge fund before founding Gousto in 2012. Sits on the Digital Advisory Board at Unilever.
People progressing
Joined as Operations Development Director, being promoted to EVP Operations after 1 year, and has since become Chief People Officer.
Joined as a Customer Care Agent in 2014, and is now Head of Customer Care.
Joined as PR Manager, being promoted to Senior Brand and PR Manager after 1 year and again to Head of Brand Marketing and PR after 3 years.
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